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" Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment - a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it. "

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" One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissance that Mayor Coleman A. Young dreamed of in the 1970s. Instead, it's the beaten-down city: 8 Mile refers to the line of demarcation between Detroit and suburban, mostly white Oakland County. "

Elvis Mitchell

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" '8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a competitor by revealing that the guy went to suburban Detroit Cranbrook, one of the finest private schools in the country. "

" Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a Mexican director. "

" Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos. "

" Just the idea of seeing a type of narrative we've not seen before is a chance to be surprised. "

" The Ebert thing just didn't work out. We just couldn't, like, come to an agreement. And 'Movieline', they obviously didn't want me, because they fired me. "

Elvis Mitchell

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" Spending time with Mexican-born writer and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, you'd never guess that he's the filmmaker behind a series of movies known as the 'Death Trilogy.' The way he dotes on his children and talks about his wife makes it clear that he has a crackling passion for life. "

" A stand-up comedian who's assaultive and decent and has managed a career that has spanned over five decades deserves a documentary. "

" In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contrasting with a pensive mouth - deserves regard, and his powerhouse virtuosity will almost guarantee him an Oscar nomination. "

" It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it is to play the third yeoman on a 'Star Trek' episode. "

" The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker. "

" When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants. "

" Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation. "

Elvis Mitchell

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" 'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn, of 'The Late Late Show,' sidles into camera range as a particularly loathsome competitor to Mitch. "

" Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from scene to scene than as a whole, the intelligence shines in its understanding of contradictions, keeping a comic distance from the emotional investment of teenagers that defined 'Ridgemont High' and later the adolescent angst movies of John Hughes. "

" One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a 'Pootie' sketch, when she was melted over him like butter on an English muffin. "

" In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into the cliches of a large-scale war movie, paying homage to all the tired conventions of the genre. But it's an honor that these cliches don't deserve. "

" Sean Penn has never become the lighter, laughing guy. "

" That's a part of success: figuring out what success means to you. "

" Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it's good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble. "

" What we're most aware of in 'Eight-Legged Freaks' is how similar it is to other movies, a recombinant mutated species itself, the product of the crossbreeding of the suffering-from-gigantism movies of the 1950s and the 1990 B-picture classic 'Tremors.' "

" Real-life conduct aside, LaBeouf, a Los Angeles native, has been working steadily as an actor since he was 12 years old. "

" I've been cheered by the reaction to what I've done with Film Independent at LACMA and the organizational support I've received in pursuing it. "

" I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum. "

" I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and Lincoln Center. "

" If somebody wants to attack my work, that's one thing - that, I'll respond to. "

" LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up. "

" Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories. "

" The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,' change can begin with a single phone call. "

" Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case. "