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: 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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Movie Review: David Morse in 16 Blocks
Grand theft acting: David Morse boosts 16 Blocks from both Bruce Willis and Mos Def.
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Movie Review: Lajos Koltai's Fateless: Death and the Children
Fateless, Life Is Beautiful, Naked Among Wolves, Kapò: children's experiences in Nazi concentration camps.
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Movie Review: Syriana and Munich: Fuel for "Thought"
Underwrought, overwrought, rot.
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Movie Review: Woody Allen's Match Point: Not Enough, Already
Woody Allen soars way beyond the level of his incompetence.
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Movie Review: Brokeback Mountain: In the Shadow of the Tire Iron
It's not a gay western, it's a gay soap opera.
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Movie Review: Pride & Prejudice and Oliver Twist: Real/Ideal
A hit and a miss. The moral: know what kind of book you're adapting.
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