Name: Alan Dale
Dateline: Portland, Oregon
Weblog: www.weirdprofessortype.com [RSS]
Articles: 124
First Published: Sunday, February 23, 2003
Last Published: Monday, May 28, 2007
Currently listing articles 124-101:
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Movie Review: Patrick Marber's Closer - Farce Served Cold— A compelling performance of Patrick Marber's configuration of desperate men and women in love and easily Mike Nichols's best movie.
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Movie Review: Notes on a Scandal - You Were Temptation— Dench turns a parched, repressed crone into a confiding, self-defeating monster — Richard III in squalid middle-class miniature.
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Movie Review: Jacques Rivette's L'Amour fou - Mr. and Mrs. Natural— Husband versus wife in a masterpiece of narrative paradox.
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Movie Review: Dreamgirls - Half and Half— Soap opera finally defeats the good musical numbers, and they aren't all good.
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Movie Review: Amy Sedaris in Strangers With Candy - The Imp of the Imperfectible— Borat is theatrical genius, but Strangers With Candy spanks the mind to attention.
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Movie Review: The Queen: Popular v. Sovereign— Illustration rather than invention.
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Movie Review: Stranger Than Fiction - No Defense— Just the kind of numbskull movie that critics call "smart."
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Movie Review: The Last King of Scotland - The Devil Wears Khaki— African history reduced to a Scotsman's romance of redemption.
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Movie Review: Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers - Foof— For this son of a Pacific-theater marine, far less moving than the National World War II Memorial.
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Movie Review: Douglas McGrath's Infamous - Crazy Lepidoptery— As much fun as a fundamentally disturbing anecdote could possibly be.
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Movie Review: Martin Scorsese's The Departed: (Good + Bad) x Cop²— Youth carries the day.
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Movie Review: Robert Towne's Ask the Dust - Laughing at Your Own Funeral— Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, and Robert Towne in tragicomic sync.
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Movie Review: Shortbus— John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus — it's all porno.
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Book Review: The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh— "The artist's load" and Waugh: He didn't know America well enough to hate it.
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Movie Review: Oliver Stone's World Trade Center— At least this flawed but uplifting Knights-in-Distress story is not an "Oliver Stone movie."
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Movie Review: The Break-Up and Friends With Money: Men and Women Without Qualities— Aniston is not a movie star; Vaughn should be.
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Movie Review: Jack Black in Nacho Libre— All it needs to be — ridiculous from beginning to end.
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Movie Review: Danny Leiner's The Great New Wonderful— Maggie Gyllenhaal hits another peak.
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DVD Review: Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky - Actor! Actor!— Whole lotta actin' goin' on.
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Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada - Apologies All Around— Promises more hell than it delivers.
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Movie Review: John Hillcoat's The Proposition: The Frontier— It's a ballad, it's a novel, it's amazing.
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DVD Review: Elaine May's The Heartbreak Kid— Irony down to the happy ending, and presumably beyond.
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Movie Review: Paul Greengrass's United 93: Guts— Almost like being there.
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DVD Reviews: Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, The Prisoner, Guilty of Treason— Two martyrs, three movies: totalitarian "justice."
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