| Critic |
Review |
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Analysis |
This Week's Verdict |
A.O. Scott,
The New York Times |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
"Mr. Radcliffe, maturing as an actor in perfect time with his character, emphasizes Harry's anger and self-pity. Mr. Yates frequently places him alone on one side of the frame, with Ron and Hermione, [...] his loyal but increasingly estranged friends, together on the other. But this is not an Ingmar Bergman film, though perhaps Mr. Bergman can be coaxed into service for the film version of Deathly Hallows.
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? Now that's not aHarry Potter and the Seventh Seal bad idea.
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Andrew O'Hehir,
Salon.com |
Interview |
"If there's a specter that's haunting Indiewood and Hollywood alike, it's the shambling figure of some semi-shaved, post-collegiate 22-year-old watching movies on his cellphone." |
Sounds like this might be the same young fellow who is destroying "old media" by blogging, has 978 friends on MySpace, and uploads ethically questionable home videos to YouTube.
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Mike D'Angelo,
The Village Voice |
Time |
"The only way to get behind Kim Ki-duk, really, is to confess that his unsavory scenarios resonate with your personal experience. And who the hell wants to admit that? Thing is, I can't see how anybody, no matter how keen to preserve a positive self-image, could fail to identify with Time, Kim's cheerfully lunatic allegory about two young lovers who undergo radical plastic surgery in a quixotic attempt to rekindle their fading romance." |
It's alright, Mike, we've all been there.
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Armond White,
New York Press |
Talk To Me |
"Nostalgia has taken the place of research and insight in faux black American histories like Talk to Me, Dreamgirls, Ray and Ali — the new cinematic chitlin' circuit. Our pop past, as represented by fashion and music and television, provides a superficial link to history. Lemmons and screenwriters Michael Genet and Rick Famuyiwa go no deeper than Petey Greene's surface (which unfortunately resembles Tim Meadows in Ladies Man)." |
Don't you dare enjoy Dreamgirls or Ray for the surface frippery.
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Dana Stevens,
Slate.com |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix |
"There's nary a Quidditch match to be found in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner Bros.), the fifth and antepenultimate installment in the series based on J.K. Rowling's monster-selling fantasy novels." |
Is there ever really an excuse for using the word "antepenultimate"?
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