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Up the Yangtze Review, by Ty Burr of Boston Globe
Looming over the film, physically and metaphorically, is the nearly complete Three Gorges Dam in the interior province of Hubei; begun in 1994 and scheduled for completion in 2011, it's the largest hydroelectric project in history, and China's mos...
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Chaos Theory Review, by Ty Burr of Boston Globe
So the powers that be have been casting the actor as a befuddled daddy-type in romantic comedies like "Definitely, Maybe" and "Chaos Theory," a new film that's actually been sitting on the shelf for well over a year. "Maybe" was watchable and blan...
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My Blueberry Nights Review, by Ty Burr of Boston Globe
"My Blueberry Nights" is Wong Kar Wai's first English-language movie. Perhaps not coincidentally, it's also his worst movie. If you're in the mood for love and for this director's luxuriant self-indulgence, though, it's a tonic nonetheless - a gor...
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Ty Burr has been a film critic for the Boston Globe since 2002. At the Boston Globe he reviews films alongside Wesley Morris. Born in 1957, Burr studied film at Dartmouth College and New York University. Currently, he lives in Newton, Massachusetts. Burr has written three books: The Hundred Greatest Movies of All Time, The Hundred Greatest Stars of All Time and The Best Old Movies for Families: A Guide to Watching Together. The latter was published in February 2007 and offers recommendations of classic films to young viewers. Burr is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics. Burr has written articles for the New York Times, Spin, The Boston Phoenix, and other publications. Some of the movies to which Burr has assigned his top ratings are Broken Flowers, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby. He began his career at Home Box Office in the 1980s, working as a Film Evaluator or in-house critic. From 1992 until 2002 he worked for Entertainment Weekly as the magazine's chief video critic. (Burr still contributes to the magazine occasionally.) Burr also makes appearances on NECN, MSNBC, and various local and national radio programs to discuss the latest movies.
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