Be Kind Rewind Director Michel Gondry Forgoes Dreamy Plots for Straight-Up Comedy
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Michel Gondry is famous for making films with backward plots and gauzy sequences. His new work, about two video-store clerks who remake famous movies, is a straight-up narrative with crowd-pleasing Jack Black pratfalls. But don't worry &mdash; Gondry's still messing with Hollywood.
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It looks like no one wants to see routine love stories any more. They want it either with a dash of humour (Mujhse Shaadi Karoge) or erotica (Julie). Or both.
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Steven Soderbergh's latest film is the ultimate guilty pleasure.
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Funny voices are a good thing  in the world of film. And the ability to deliver them is even  better.
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It is an enjoyable album which tempts you to press the rewind button.
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Larry Shue's deliberately doltish comedy, a downtown hit in the mid-1980's, is a good fit for the eternally open-faced Matthew Broderick.
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Grossness and sweetness  seem to be the oddly winning combo animating many successful  recent comedies, such as &quot;The 40-Year-Old Virgin,&quot; &quot;Knocked Up&quot;  and current box office hit &quot;Superbad.&quot;
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A TIME critic's take on the cantankerous director of MASH and other sprawling social comedies
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A lot of the charm comes from a witty script by Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin and Adam Brooks and the chemistry between leading players Paul Bettany and Kirsten Dunst.
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âWristcutters: A Love Storyâ has an offbeat, absurdist charm that turns a potentially creepy conceit into an odd, touching adventure.
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Alexander Payne&#39;s wonderful &quot;Sideways&quot; starts with a knock on one door and ends with a knock on another. The first knock is a harsh awakening into the kind of life that makes you want to stay in bed; the second
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âVince Vaughnâs Wild West Comedy Showâ imagines itself a contemporary equivalent of rootinâ- tootinâ traveling entertainments like Buffalo Billâs Wild West Show. Thatâs a tall comparison to draw.
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This Hollywood film is a time-pass fun flick.
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Steven Soderbergh attempts to resurrect the magic of classical Hollywood, principally by sucking out all the air, energy and pleasure from his own filmmaking.
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âWimbledonâ is a well-behaved movie about nice people who have good things happen to them. Thatâs kind of startling in a world where movie characters, especially in
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Fox's freshman comedy  "Back to You," starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton as  co-anchors at a local TV station, received a full-season pickup  Wednesday.
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Actor Jack Black stars in a comical and  nostalgic tribute to the pioneers of cinema and jazz in "Be  Kind Rewind," which brings the 2008 Berlin Film Festival to a  fitting close on Saturday.