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Righteous Kill Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
The movie opens with a confession. Staring straight into a video camera, "Turk" (Robert De Niro), a 30-plus-year veteran of the NYPD, recounts eleven cold-blooded killings, none of which were committed in the line of duty. Instead, they were the w...
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Meet Dave Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
Early one New York City morning, a neatly groomed, middle-aged man (Eddie Murphy) dressed in an immaculate three-piece white suit comes screaming across the sky and lands face first on Liberty Island. Apparently unhurt, he picks himself up, dusts ...
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Alexandra Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
Russian director Alexander Sokurov brings a political edge to the intra-family dynamics of his somber MOTHER AND SON and enigmatic FATHER AND SON with this relatively straightforward tale of a grandmother's trip to an embattled region of Russia fo...
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Sex and Death 101 Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
Once upon a time, writer-director Daniel Waters wrote a pitch-black satire of high-school-as-Jacobean bloodbath called HEATHERS, and even though he's written five other films since (including the notorious HUDON HAWK and THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAI...
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Then She Found Me Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
It only took a few days to turn the life of 39-year-old New York City elementary schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) inside out. After many frustrating months of trying to conceive a child -- April was adopted as a baby and resists becoming an adopti...
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The Tracey Fragments Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
Cult Canadian director Bruce McDonald's adaptation of Maureen Medved's novel is a bold formalist experiment: After shooting the screenplay -- adapted by Medved herself -- McDonald and editors Jermiah and Gareth C. Scales slice, dice, split and oth...
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The Children of Huang Shi Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
December, 1937. British newspaperman and recent Oxford grad George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has come to Shanghai in hopes of capturing the story the rest of the world is largely ignoring: The brutal occupation of China by the Japanese, particul...
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The Air I Breathe Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
According to an obscure ancient Chinese proverb, life is composed of four basic emotions: happiness, sorrow, pleasure and love. Co-writer-director Jieho Lee uses these ingredients as the structuring device for his first feature, crafting four inte...
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Irina Palm Review, by Ken Fox of TV Guide
How far would you go to save the life of someone you love? Marianne Faithfull stars as an aging English widow who proves her dedication by going above and beyond the call of grandmotherly duty in this offbeat take on a familiar theme.
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Caramel Review, by Ken Fox TV Guide
The setting is Beirut's Si Bella salon, an upscale beauty parlor where middle-class Lebanese women congregate to exchange gossip, get their hair done and have unwanted hair removed with caramel, that sticky-sweet cooked-sugar confection that can a...
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