Review: 'Shepherd' intriguing, overlong
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It's the story of the season: Trim about a half-hour and you could turn a good movie into a great one.
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With a running time as long as its title, 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' strives for epic status. Once in a while, it succeeds.
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Legal debate and lyricism in âMargaret Garner,â an opera imbued with gospel and spirituals.
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This is a story about love. About inscrutable complexity and remarkable simplicity, about the promise of forever. It is about obsession and devotion, and grand gestures and 4,000-word love letters.
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By David Sterritt | Film critic of The Christian Science Monitor. It&#39;s a double whammy, and almost nobody but Steven Soderbergh could have pulled it off.
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Lifetimeâs two-hour movie is an uneasy combination of crime thriller, romantic melodrama and snuff film that doesnât ask us to suspend our disbelief so much as overcome our gag reflex.
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âBeaufortâ may be, strictly speaking, a war movie, but for long stretches it feels more like science fiction.
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Good acting, slick editing, interesting plot.
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The animal can be a revelation of the human, but more often it appears as a contrast than a comforting reflection.
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The familiar story of the innocent soul who travels from the country to the big, bad city receives a thorough workout in this crude attempt at a cinematic bildungsroman.
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In a wise new novel, life happens, haphazardly
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Gabriel Byrne spends much of his new drama planted in a chair, engaged in dialogue with whomever occupies the sofa facing him. He has plenty to say, but what distinguishes his performance is something else he must do: express the act of listening.
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This dark British comedy exudes the comfy familiarity of a vintage episode of ÂAlfred Hitchcock PresentsÂ stretched into a feature-length film.
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Gianni Amelio's quietly unassuming tear-jerker works its way into your heart despite the occasional cries of protest emanating from your head.
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A 17th century "Star is Born," though with interestingly convoluted sexual politics and a provocative historical thesis.
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One film has an oblique ending that's left some viewers dissatisfied and others floored by its profundity. The other features a slowly developing plot and a brutal, operatically violent finale.
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An intersibling death match reminiscent of Sam Shepard's "True West," the independent feature "Solitude" details a tortured, possibly incestuous relationship.