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Reviews by Request: “In Bruges” (2008)

Danny Baldwin — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:08:21 +0000

Martin McDonagh’s “In Bruges” is two movies in one — the first two acts a mournful, blackly funny, Catholicism-influenced mediation on guilt; the last a balls-to-the-walls, screwball action farce. If the film were a man walking down the street, he’d be dressed in a crisp dress shirt and a finely tailored sport-jacket on top and […]

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Reviews by Request: “Make Way for Tomorrow” (1937)

Danny Baldwin — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 05:56:15 +0000

Filmmakers, like humanity in general, have long been obsessed with death – and why wouldn’t they be? The construct is simultaneously universal and intensely personal, terrifying and exciting, certain and unknown. These bipolarities make for good theater. But for as frequently as The End is dramatized on the silver-screen, the years leading up to it […]

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Reviews by Request: “Pinocchio” (2002)

Danny Baldwin — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:52:49 +0000

On the rare occasion that Roberto Benigni’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning “Life is Beautiful,” a profoundly strange adaptation of “Pinocchio,” is remembered by Americans, it is usually for the film’s comically bad English-language dub. Certainly, it’s a challenge to make any dub worthy of being taken seriously, but this particular job, featuring once-teen star Breckin […]

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