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Frozen River Review, by Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly
In Frozen River, the veteran actress Melissa Leo has one of those faces that's all creases and hollows and weather-roughened valleys. As Ray, who lives in a dingy, broken-down trailer home in upstate New York with her two sons (and, when he's arou...
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21 Review, by Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly
These days, a lot of young actors are too attractive, or at least too confidently invested in the powers of their teenybop charisma, to do a convincing job of playing anyone normal. They may look great in tabloid party photographs, but when they'r...
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Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Review, by Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten opens with startling black-and-white footage of Joe Strummer in the studio, singing White Riot. We don't hear any music, just his voice -- that strangled lumpen rasp, all ferocity and barbed wire, not so much ...............
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Paranoid Park Review, by Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly
Paranoid Park is the third installment in what might be called Gus Van Sant's trilogy of Cool Beautiful Disaffected Youth Who Commit Random Acts of Violence. In Elephant (2003), the camera glided and spun like a ghost voyeur through the halls of a.........
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August Review, by Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly
Anyone who thinks that Josh Hartnett isn't a true movie star should see his riveting, high-wire performance in August, a shrewdly dramatized look back at the bursting of the dot-com bubble. As Tom, the hipster CEO of a start-up that's about to cra...
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Kung Fu Panda Review, by Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly
In Kung Fu Panda, Jack Black is the voice of Po, a clown-eyed, sheepishly neurotic, roly-poly panda of no visible athletic ability who trains to become a lightning-limbed martial-arts master. Black gets off a few good lines (Oooo, my tenders! he e...
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