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In the Loop is an unusually good and funny film from a usually tepid and rather unfunny genre. After enduring an onslaught of mediocre films centered around the war in Iraq, 2009 seems to have finally brought audiences closer to cinematic resolution: first Kathryn Bigelow’s invigorating The Hurt Locker gave us a fresh insight, and [...]
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Truth be told, Bruno was always the least funniest of Sacha Baron Cohen’s creations from Da Ali G Show, if only because he was smug and self-aware in comparison to his partners in crime: Ali G was dumb and ignorant. Borat was a fish out of water. But Bruno played his ambushes with a smirk, [...]
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So, let’s summarize: this is a boring movie, a polar opposite of its prequel. It feels haphazard, scattered, wandering — like the script was still being written during production, and they just decided to hang out in Egypt for the second half until they could figure out a way to wrap it up. When Shia dies and goes to Transformer heaven and meets the Transformer gods, I called bullshit. What a stupid movie.
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Most great comedies are based on fundamental truths — we find a deal of humour in the illumination of our own human tragedy. Office Space is funny, for example, because we’ve all worked that type of job, put up with that type of boss, and suffered that type of monotonous everyday boredom. Todd Phillips’ new [...]
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A balding studio executive sits comfortably in the office of a Warner Brothers building, sipping from a Grande Nonfat Caramel Macchiato, listening to the younger man in front of him, who is pulling his hands apart to outline an imaginary rectangular movie screen. “Two words: Big, Teen Wolf, Freaky Friday, Back to the Future, Vice [...]
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