Category: 2003
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Do the British have an unending supply of novels about wise-beyond-their-years young women (unjustly poor or ordinary, of course) who have slightly dim older sisters who can’t see love in front of their eyes while all the time these younger women suffer for their sisters’ happiness? It certainly seems so. I Capture the Castle, the…
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Good coming of age story about natural born hippie Ben Lee breaking away from his parents and attempt to go square after high school, going to work in an insurance office. There’s lots of office drone tropes, but agreeably executed. McNamara is a fine director; he works hard to keep the viewer entertained. Rose Byrne…
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Decent, albeit predictable thriller about Val Kilmer waking up with amnesia and surrounded by shady characters. Plus he’s got a wife (Neve Campbell) he can’t remember; she doesn’t like the waitress, played by Amy Smart, who’s been helping Kilmer out. Definitely needs a better title–there are no horizons, no one’s blind–but strong performances from everyone,…
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Well-made but predictable romantic melodrama has Son Ye-jin as a college student who finds her mom’s old love letters. Son also plays Mom in flashbacks. Good performances all around, but it just doesn’t work out. Writer-director Kwak can’t do the melodrama. DVD (R3).Continue reading →
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