"The American" has a big-time movie star and superb actor in George Clooney; gorgeous Italian settings; a Hitchcockian-thriller scenario; and a talented director in Anton Corbijn. But why doesn't it engage us?
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Robert Rodriguez returns to the grindhouse with this entertainingly over-the-top, ultraviolent exploitationer.
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Fueled by a wisely funny and delightful lead performance from the ever-impressive Emma Stone, "Easy A" is easy-to-take, breezy fun that, like "Clueless," gets its inspiration from a literary property.
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Pattinson is a standout as the sexually ambiguous and wildly quirky Dalí, given to flamboyant costumes, displays of self-importance, and rehearsed affectations.
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While his 'Pulp Fiction' arrived late at the Festival de Cannes and swept away the Palme d'Or in 1994, his World War II action movie 'Inglourious Basterds' merely continues the string of disappointments in this year's Competition.
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At first glance it feels like a special edition of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', but soon into Woody Allen's latest film, you realize that its star, Larry David, is channeling his writer-director.
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Francis Ford Coppola—winner of five Oscars and the man who gave us, among others, "The Godfather" trilogy, "The Conversation," and "Apocalypse Now"—has, at age 70, entered into his "experimental" phase.
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The twist in writer-director Noah Buschel's stylized and scattershot homage to film noir tries to give the film a wider resonance. But this is an odd mix in every sense.
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Like the tears of a clown, the songs of a children's folk singer can mask an adult with a raft of personal problems.
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It's very early in 2010, but it's hard to imagine any movie in the next 12 months that will sport a more promising and accomplished ensemble than this stark British drama.
