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Review of Tropic Thunder (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 14 Sep 2008

Tropic Thunder, full of punchlines about Milli Vanilli and Being There, stitches the tired cultural references of one generation to the…

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Review of Mamma Mia! (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 14 Sep 2008

A chintzy valentine to the world-shaking ebullience of one's own flimsily empowered friendships and one's most offhanded and tarted-up whims…

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Review of The Third Man (1949)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 12 Sep 2008

If The Third Man is a tragedy, it isn't just the tragedy of a hobbled city, scribbled with ruins and parsed into zones of occupation that…

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Review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 21 Aug 2008

Long ago, Allen became interested in the artist only as a theme and rhetorical figure…

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Review of Turn the River (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 25 Apr 2008

Turn the River, sometimes like Kailey herself and sometimes not, has a laudable habit of pulling back at the right moments and proving its…

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Review of Fay Grim (2007)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 03 Jan 2008

The nicest surprise of the movie is how long and how well Fay Grim works as a contemporary screwball comedy, a genre from which Hartley's…

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Review of Crazy Love (2007)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 15 Nov 2007

Crazy Love...sidles up to us, thrills and surprises us, seduces us with the pop flavor of its mid-century paperback aesthetic and its…

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Review of Making Love (1982)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 13 Nov 2007

On its own baby-step terms, and despite its moneyed vanilla-himbo vision of gay masculinity and desire, Making Love plays now as a bemusing…

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Review of The Joy of Life (2005)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 12 Nov 2007

The Joy of Life offers a truncated and incomplete but a nonetheless promising start to that looming and hopefully brilliant career…

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Review of Groundhog Day (1993)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 12 Nov 2007

The movie deserves its fans, earns our respect, delivers richly on its initial promises if not always on its greater ones, and rewards…

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Review of The Search (1948)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 17 Oct 2007

Both a well-modulated immersion in the experience of stunned and stranded children and a time-capsule of the scarred land and crumbled…

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Review of Michael Clayton (2007)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 15 Oct 2007

The multiplex needs more movies where life, work, morality, and debt comprise the constellation of adult experience, unimpinged upon by…

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Review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 15 Oct 2007

Elizabeth: Full Throttle. Elizabeth: The Heretic. Elizabeth: Book of Shadows…

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Review of Stuck (1974)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 12 Oct 2007

Assumes the stance of a transfixed but inarticulate bystander to its own premise, rather than using that premise as an aperture into…

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Review of Stuck (2007)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 12 Oct 2007

Assumes the stance of a transfixed but inarticulate bystander to its own premise, rather than using that premise as an aperture into…

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Review of Stuck! (2009)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 12 Oct 2007

Assumes the stance of a transfixed but inarticulate bystander to its own premise, rather than using that premise as an aperture into…

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Review of Stuck (2002)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 12 Oct 2007

Assumes the stance of a transfixed but inarticulate bystander to its own premise, rather than using that premise as an aperture into…

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Review of The Good Fairy (1935)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 24 Sep 2007

This strange, uncertain film doesn't augur or embody Wyler's subsequent trademarks so much as it calls them into relief through their very absence…

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Review of Zodiac (2007)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 14 Sep 2007

I'm impressed with Fincher's delicate formal and tonal control in Zodiac's best passages...but sometimes this restraint feels like a gag in…

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Review of The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 03 Aug 2007

An ideal movie for DVD: you can pick and choose moments and lines to revisit while ignoring, or trying to ignore, the thematic compromises,…

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