"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
Alan Dale earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He currently works as a corporate tax attorney in Portland, Oregon.
He is the author of What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies of the 1990s and Comedy Is a Man in Trouble: Slapstick in American Movies.
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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."
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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