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" There are storytelling traditions that come from Africa that are unique from anywhere else. "
Elvis Mitchell
Traditions
Unique
Storytelling
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" The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. "
Elvis Mitchell
First
Influence
Better
" If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, years under the lights softens you into a cuddly family figure. "
Elvis Mitchell
Off
Lights
Start
" Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the complicated 'Queen Ravenna', and Stewart's performance as 'Snow White', the fairest of them all, in her first action-heroine role, kept her literally in constant motion. "
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White
She
Queen
" Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case. "
Elvis Mitchell
Old
Plagiarism
School
" '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. "
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Late
Talk
Old
" When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly 'Gladiator,' you may ask yourself why and at the same time thank him for his absorption in the part. "
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You
Him
" It would be hard to make a movie worse than the first 'Ocean's Eleven,' the 1960 Lewis Milestone film. "
Elvis Mitchell
Hard
Film
Worse
" The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's epic and marvelous new anime fantasy. "
Elvis Mitchell
Director
New
Animation
" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Tomorrow
Better
Drama
" 'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say. "
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Notes
You
Like
" Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation. "
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Architect
Skills
He
" Each country has its own way of communicating a narrative and, through that, expressing family experiences in emotional stories. "
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Country
Way
Own
" '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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Country
Class
Clowns
" For those not so taken by the star power, this new 'Ocean's Eleven' is the equivalent of a domineering team you can't stand that enters the Super Bowl. Even if you don't like the players, the odds are so good that it's tough to bet against them. "
Elvis Mitchell
Tough
Team
Good
" 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. "
Elvis Mitchell
Surprise
Artist
Director
" Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Republican Party showed in Trent Lott; the live-action version of Carlo Collodi's fairy tale about the wooden puppet whose only ambition was to be a real live boy was sneaked into theaters Christmas Day. "
Elvis Mitchell
Ambition
Christmas
Day
" Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consumption and detrimental effects on health. "
Elvis Mitchell
Political
Health
Almost
" It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century. "
Elvis Mitchell
Early
Worst
Well
" Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her new setting and laying it all out in narration, this movie is just like home for the meticulous and ruthless deadpan that Ms. Fey has perfected for the satirical 'S.N.L.' newscast in which she and Jimmy Fallon are the anchors. "
Elvis Mitchell
Home
Her
She
" The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form of the film adaptation of J. K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.' "
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May
Books
Film
" I want to expand and not ignore the late 20th-century additions to filmed entertainment. "
Elvis Mitchell
Ignore
Entertainment
Want
" In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career. "
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Kind
Career
Journey
" Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation. "
Elvis Mitchell
Performance
Than
More
" The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and touchingly connects the dots between three standards of yearning in movies: David Lean's 'Brief Encounter,' Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' and Wong Kar-wai's 'In the Mood for Love.' "
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Lost
Movies
Mood
" In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public. "
Elvis Mitchell
Concentration
Politician
World
" 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.' "
Elvis Mitchell
Most
Movies
1950s
" The kind of filmmaking excitement that director Peter Weir brings to movies is bone deep. "
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Director
Filmmaking
Deep
" The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minutes of this English version of a hugely popular Japanese film will quickly disabuse any discerning viewer of the notion that it is a Disney creation. "
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Picture
Will
Seeing
" Stewart's interest in serious acting gives her something in common with Theron - and, like Theron, some of her most provocative work has come through working with women. "
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Work
Working
Women
" It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it's tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow? "
Elvis Mitchell
Why
Ring
Picture