CARAMEL
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: PG Running Time: 95 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! The writing stays honest throughout, and Labaki steals every scene she’s in…
Posted on February 3, 2008 by Jeff Beresford-Howe
ATONEMENT
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
The movie is trying to have it both ways: it wants us to take seriously the stories it tells about awful things that happen between people and during war, but also its message about the unreliability of narrative…
Posted on December 10, 2007 by Jeff Beresford-Howe
I’M NOT THERE
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! It’s moving and direct enough to get your attention on first watching, and profoundly layered and allusive enough to require repeated viewings if you want to see everything that Haynes is up to…
Posted on November 25, 2007 by Jeff Beresford-Howe
REDACTED
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 90 minutes |
I stayed in my seat for five minutes after “Redacted” ended, devastated…
Posted on November 18, 2007 by Jeff Beresford-Howe
MEMOIRS OF THE 2007 MIDDLE EASTERN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
New festivals spring up annually, and this year brought the first ever Middle Eastern International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi. Writer Jeff Beresford-Howe made the trek overseas from California, and these are the collected journal entries from his travels…
Posted on November 14, 2007 by Jeff Beresford-Howe
MEMOIRS OF THE 2007 MIDDLE EASTERN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (PART 2)
New festivals spring up annually, and this year brought the first ever Middle Eastern International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi. Writer Jeff Beresford-Howe made the trek overseas from California, and these are the collected journal entries from his travels…
Posted on November 14, 2007 by Jeff Beresford-Howe
MEMOIRS OF THE 2007 MIDDLE EASTERN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (PART 3)
New festivals spring up annually, and this year brought the first ever Middle Eastern International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi. Writer Jeff Beresford-Howe made the trek overseas from California, and these are the collected journal entries from his travels…
Posted on November 14, 2007 by Jeff Beresford-Howe
OWL AND THE SPARROW
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Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 97 minutes |
Gauger gives them honest things to say, and while they’re all struggling, we never get the sense that their economic fate determines who they are as people…
Posted on November 12, 2007 by Jeff Beresford-Howe
THE GOOD NIGHT
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  Year Released: 2007 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
None of the characters in “The Good Night” develop much despite great performances from the whole cast…
Posted on October 19, 2007 by Jeff Beresford-Howe