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Alan Dale

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The Pawn Shop, Doktor Mabuse, Pandora's Box, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, Rules of the Game, The Wizard of Oz, The Magnificent Ambersons, A Streetcar Named Desire, Magical Maestro, Jules and Jim, Bay of the Angels, Nashville, Taxi Driver, Pennies from Heaven, Shoot the Moon, My Beautiful Laundrette, Six Degrees of Separation

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Confusions of an Unmarried Couple (2009) 80% “[The moviemakers'] straightforwardness about ... sexual relationships is beyond refreshing[,] ... as if sugarcoating were chemically impossible.” – Blogcritics.org Jan 1, 2009 Full Review Closer (2004) 67% “Marber looks at farcical giddiness with a hard-won sobriety.... Closer is a voguish farce that, rather than making you wish you were like the characters, makes you wish that you hadn't been.” – Blogcritics.org May 28, 2007 Full Review Notes on a Scandal (2006) 87% “The characters' motives are base enough, and there's an odd combination of petty incidents having walloping consequences, but the ironies are as delicately layered and "delicious" as they could possibly be without a hint of preciosity.” – Blogcritics.org Apr 17, 2007 Full Review L'Amour Fou (1969) 100% “The irony is subtle ... but irresistible for anyone interested in narrative paradox. L'Amour fou is one of the few movies, and one of the best, to deal directly with a literary subject.” – Blogcritics.org Mar 13, 2007 Full Review Dreamgirls (2006) 79% “I could have happily sat through the first half a second time, though I was barely able to sit through the second half once.” – Blogcritics.org Feb 15, 2007 Full Review Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) 90% “It's theatrical genius: Cohen has devised a split-level act in which being hooked off the stage by his in-the-movie audience makes for success with his at-the-movie audience.” – Blogcritics.org Jan 5, 2007 Full Review Strangers With Candy (2005) 52% “[R]eplicate[s] in a raunchy cartoon how the chaos of our experience correlates more than we may care to admit to the chaos of our personalities.” – Blogcritics.org Jan 5, 2007 Full Review The Queen (2006) 97% “To give the narrative depth, bite, or oomph, as naturalism, irony, or romance, or some combination ... Morgan would have to have invented more (as Shakespeare and Schiller did with their historical royalty)....” – Blogcritics.org Dec 31, 2006 Full Review Stranger Than Fiction (2006) 73% “[J]ust the kind of numbskull movie that critics call 'smart'.” – Blogcritics.org Dec 31, 2006 Full Review The Last King of Scotland (2006) 87% “[T]he movie's emphasis on Nicholas's misadventures, as if the audience couldn't get into the story of Uganda without an educated, white, middle-class European as a protagonist, is a huge let-down in its own terms.” – Blogcritics.org Dec 18, 2006 Full Review Flags of Our Fathers (2006) 76% “There's not a fully realized personality in 132 minutes. Though it's based on a non-fiction book, Flags of Our Fathers is too thinly imagined for naturalism, and when Eastwood squeezes the material for greater significance, it crumbles. ” – Blogcritics.org Dec 3, 2006 Full Review Infamous (2006) 75% “[Covering] the same period of the author's life as Bennett Miller's Capote..., Infamous is not only the more entertaining movie, it's the more sophisticated, and the more emotional, as well.” – Blogcritics.org Dec 3, 2006 Full Review The Departed (2006) 91% “The movie gains life entirely from the interplay among the actors, and both of the young stars are wonderful.” – Blogcritics.org Nov 1, 2006 Full Review Ask the Dust (2006) 36% “Towne has a perhaps unique ability to make this ill-fated movie romance classically seductive while doing full justice to its authentic subject. [His] canniness as a writer and casual sophistication do wonders for the actors.” – Blogcritics.org Nov 1, 2006 Full Review Shortbus (2006) 69% “[Shortbus] will give adults who aren't put off by zoo-naked sex more to talk about, even in disparagement, than anything showing at the Cineplex.” – Blogcritics.org Nov 1, 2006 Full Review Intolerable Cruelty (2003) 76% “As Miles, Clooney doesn't make any direct emotional appeal to the audience and yet his high style is so smashingly effective that Miles stands open to us: macher, lover, patsy.” – Blogcritics.org Sep 26, 2006 Full Review Fargo (1996) 95% “[Marge is] a good cop because everything abnormal stands out like a stain against her white-on-white sanity.... [H]er incomprehension [of criminality] is not only her strength as a detective, it justifies the deadpan style of the movie.” – Blogcritics.org Sep 26, 2006 Full Review Frida (2002) 76% “[A]s in soap opera, drama is synonymous with the torments of love. Hayek is a brave, tireless performer, ... but given the script she can only play Kahlo the "beguiling personality" she liked to think of herself as ... rather than Kahlo the artist.” – Blogcritics.org Sep 26, 2006 Full Review About Schmidt (2002) 86% “[Y]ou laugh with a growing sense of dread because it makes you feel what it's like to realize it's too late to help yourself.” – Blogcritics.org Sep 26, 2006 Full Review The Loved One (1965) 47% “Perhaps the only way to enjoy it is to accept that saying something offensive is better than saying nothing at all. The Evelyn Waugh who wrote The Loved One might have agreed with that, at any rate.” – Blogcritics.org Sep 15, 2006 Full Review World Trade Center (2006) 66% “The movie's real mistake is to take as its focus the single least unusual aspect of September 11--the fact that the murdered and wounded loved their families and were loved back.” – Blogcritics.org Sep 1, 2006 Full Review Friends With Money (2006) 72% “[I]t's hard to distinguish [Holofcener's] more tentative approach to narrative [here] from an identity crisis. Maybe that's why McDormand's material has by far the most bite.” – Blogcritics.org Jul 30, 2006 Full Review The Break-Up (2006) 34% “[I]t combines a naked desire to please the audience with a try-anything approach of the kind that made Wedding Crashers such a desperate stab at entertainment.” – Blogcritics.org Jul 30, 2006 Full Review Nacho Libre (2006) 39% “Nacho Libre is all it needs to be--ridiculous from beginning to end.” – Blogcritics.org Jul 26, 2006 Full Review The Great New Wonderful (2005) 73% “[Maggie] Gyllenhaal ... slips into character with greater ease than any other young American actress now in the movies.” – Blogcritics.org Jul 26, 2006 Full Review
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