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Wednesday, December 31,2008

A curious lack of feeling in Pitts' Benjamin Button

By Glen Baity
It won't be an easy journey, or a short one. Benjamin will leave home on a tugboat bound for Russia, fight briefly in World War II and go through an affair or two, while Daisy pursues her dreams of becoming a ballerina in New York City. All of this is entertaining enough in the film's first 90 minutes.
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Wednesday, December 24,2008

From Dark Knight to M. Night, here are '08's best and worst

By Glen Baity
But 2008, you made a believer out of me again. A triumphant Batman movie was only one part of what proved to be a pretty excellent year in American cinema. I havent yet seen everything I wanted to see (Synecdoche, will you ever make it to Greensboro?), but there was a lot to love in 2008 regardless.
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Wednesday, December 17,2008

Let the Right One In a haunting, blood-curdling love story

By Glen Baity
Soon after these two set up shop in Oskar's neighborhood, news gets out of a string of brutal, unsolved attacks and murders in the area. Oskar's mother forbids him from leaving the apartment complex courtyard after nightfall, drastically restricting his already-limited social opportunities.
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Wednesday, December 10,2008

RSVP to Rachel Getting Married

By Glen Baity
Suffice it to say that Kym believes everyone still hates her, and to an extent she’s right. Her clumsy attempts to make amends for her many, many mistakes only pick at the scabs
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Wednesday, December 3,2008

Messy Australia still a trip worth taking

By Glen Baity
My reasons are legion, but here's the short list: the labored hipness, the pointless anachronism, the frantic editing and the in-your-face overacting.
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Wednesday, September 3,2008

Hamlet 2 delivers the slings and arrows of outrageous comedy

By Glen Baity
Coogan is stunning in his commitment to the character of Dana Marschz (pronounced, he insists, “MAR-ss-shh-zuh”). This man is many things: struggling actor, idiotic playwright, terrible husband and appalling educator.
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Wednesday, August 27,2008

Rainn Wilson struggles in mediocre Rocker

By Glen Baity
The answer: Occasional hilarity. Very occasional. Rainn Wilson stars as Robert “Fish” Fishman, who in 1986 was kicked out of Vesuvius, a Cleveland hair-metal powerhouse on the verge of world domination. He never recovered from the indignity.
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Wednesday, August 20,2008

The kids are all right in angsty documentary

By Glen Baity
It’s been a long summer. Who’s ready for a non-franchise, non-superhero inspired movie that will tug at your heartstrings, make you laugh and restore (or reaffirm) your faith in the nation’s youth? If your hand is in the air, report directly to American Teen,.
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Wednesday, August 13,2008

There’s hazy fun aboard the Pineapple Express

By Glen Baity
Our monthly viewing from the Judd Apatow collection is another late-summer romp from writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who scored a left-field hit this time last year with Superbad.
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Wednesday, August 6,2008

Costner’s Swing Vote crashes in flyover country

By Glen Baity
First, let me emphasize that I understand writing a political comedy, especially for the United States in 2008, must be difficult. Good comedy is hard on its own; toss in thorny political and social issues and you’ve got a near-impossible balancing act. So Swing Vote’s horrible failure is at least understandable.
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