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'U2 3D' almost puts you on stage with band
(A) A concert film featuring one of the world's premier rock bands in top form, shot using cutting-edge technology that gives the audience a better-than-front-row seat. What's not to love?Read more : 23.01.2008 05:00:00
Coppola's rewarding and spirited 'Youth'
Francis Ford Coppola convinces you that lightning can strike twice, and in more ways than one, in his first film in a decade, Youth Without Youth. His renewed passion for moviemaking makes a zigzag narrative easy and rewarding to follow. But not too easy - where would be the fun in that? Yet for a film whose ingredients include the transmigration of souls, the synchronicity of past, present and future, and the merger of dreams and reality - as well as the peculiar interests of Nazis and Orientalists - Youth Without Youth is surprisingly absorbing and romantic. Coppola's fidelity to the novella by Mircea Eliade can make sections of the film appear rushed or clotted, but by the end you feel immersed in a rejuvenating spring.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
'Untraceable' doesn't quite click
Untraceable lambastes us for being amoral voyeurs as it panders to our baser instincts at the same time.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
Energetic and in step with past dance flicks
How She Move sure has got the moves. And even if we've seen so many of them before, its young cast delivers the goods with such gusto and drive that the familiarity breeds more enjoyment than contempt.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
Rough-and-tumble 'Rambo' hits target
(B-) There's something oddly touching about Sylvester Stallone's march down memory lane, dusting off one of his most iconic characters for another outing after years in mothballs. As with 2006's Rocky Balboa and now Rambo, the 60-year-old star dons the persona like a comfy old suit, a little worse for wear but eminently recognizable.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
'Untraceable' is a tangled web
Film about a killer who tortures his victims on the Internet, just never clicks (C) Untraceable lambastes us for being amoral voyeurs as it panders to our baser instincts at the same time.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
'How She Move' is in step with past dance flicks
(B-) How She Move sure has got the moves. And even if we've seen so many of them before, its young cast delivers the goods with such gusto and drive that the familiarity breeds more enjoyment than contempt.Read more : 25.01.2008 05:00:00
An upbeat but forgettable concert film
(C+) "We have a couple of rules here tonight," shouts Miley Ray Cyrus to an intimate crowd of several thousand screaming tweens. "I don't want to look around and see anyone sitting in their seats."Read more : 01.02.2008 05:00:00
'Dead Body' is such a drag
(D) Over Her Dead Body is a hopeless pastiche of timeworn plotlines, hackneyed dialogue and stultifying direction; to call it amateurish is a slap in the face to amateurs everywhere.Read more : 01.02.2008 05:00:00
Simple cartoon depicts complexity of upheaval
(A-) An animated film may seem like an odd forum for a tale about growing up in Iran under a succession of repressive totalitarian regimes. But that's exactly what Persepolis is, a forum in which writer-director Marjane Satrapi gets to both exorcise her demons and put them on display for all the world to identify with.Read more : 01.02.2008 05:00:00
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