"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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Youth carries the day.
Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, and Robert Towne in tragicomic sync.
John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus — it's all porno.
"The artist's load" and Waugh: He didn't know America well enough to hate it.
At least this flawed but uplifting Knights-in-Distress story is not an "Oliver Stone movie."
Aniston is not a movie star; Vaughn should be.
All it needs to be — ridiculous from beginning to end.
Maggie Gyllenhaal hits another peak.
Whole lotta actin' goin' on.
Promises more hell than it delivers.
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