Movie Review | 'Crossover': On the Detroit Streets, Friends Strive for More Than Baskets
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Bling is bad and friends are good in this story of temptation, rivalry and buck-wild cheerleaders set in the world of Detroit street basketball.
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Russell Banksâs new novel bears less resemblance to any of his gritty, visionary epics than it does to a melodramatic B movie from the 1940s.
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Across the spectrum of mass-appeal professional sports, Americaâs greatest regional rivalry has not been a pretty sight for New York fans.
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Independent film has a certain cachet, bringing to mind uncompromising, unkempt artists plumbing their genius to bring cold, hard truths to the corner cinema. Or maybe it brings to mind guys dressed as film canisters panhandling in L.A.
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Clevelandâs win over Detroit was the ultimate reversal of fortune for a beleaguered sports city accustomed to big-game failure.
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âStep Up 2 the Streetsâ posits a universe where racial and class differences are minor obstacles to fun and pretends its clichÃ©s arenât clichÃ©s.
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Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski, this wonderful independent film wonÂt save or change your life, but it may make your heart swell. Its aim is modest and true.
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The film will go as an independant entry.
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Rodney Evans's heartfelt first film finds its lead character, a young, gay, black and beautiful college student, caught between two worlds.
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The new comic drama by Donald Margulies is steeped in a spirit of acceptance, yet does not make the familiar seem fresh.
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Pop culture, society's meeting ground, has the privilege of playing a starring role in its conflicts.
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Chris Webber is playing for Detroit, his hometown team, and he is winning again. To him, these gifts overshadow the paradoxical questions that have trailed him whenever he has left a place.
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Bob Glaudiniâs modest, quietly moving drama offers a needed corrective to flashier, more widely disseminated depictions of the meaner streets of Manhattan.
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The end of the summer sees an interesting mix of movies. You have the action flicks that are maybe good enough to win an award, like Collateral.
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The Pixar Studio, which cannot seem to take a wrong step, steps right again with &quot;The Incredibles,&quot; a superhero spoof that alternates breakneck action with satire of suburban sitcom life.
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The proliferation of action-adventure movies can be explained by our collective craving for heroes. They need not come from other planets or have super powers, for we have all-too-mortal creatures worthy of hero worship in our firefighters.
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The film has many an interesting nugget about it.