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disregard the awful soundtrack, bad hair and
formulaic climax.
This series of vignettes from the
hoods of Brazil is too long, beyond vio
lent and overpopulated with characters hut
remains worth seeing for the young cast’s
strong performances as well as the audacious
visual flair displayed by directors KiStia Lund
and Fernando Meirelles.
—Jim Radosta
T he H ours
Slightly uneven due to some poor adapta
tion choices is the only criticism for this film
version of gay writer Michael Cunninghams
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the lives of
three women in different time periods linked
through Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs.
Dalloway. Nicole Kidman deserved her Gold
en Globe for her glowing portrayal of Woolf,
while Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Ed Har
ris and Stephen Dillane complete a perfect
ensemble cast.
— Lisa Bradshaw
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Yeah, it’s a preposterous gimmick: A n
ad exec (Matthew McConaughey) bets
colleagues he can make a woman love him
within a week and a half. His target turns
out to he a columnist (Kate Hudson)
researching ways to get dumped just as
quickly. T he couple’s sweet chemistry and
the script’s shrewd observations made me
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Director Peter Jackson kicks ass again in
the second installment of what is shaping up to
be cinema’s greatest fantasy trilogy— and leaves
me wondering more than ever how he lost last
year’s Academy Award to Ron Howard’s A
Beautiful Mind. Queer audiences
will appreciate the growing affec
tion between Frodo (Elijah
Wood) and Sam (Sean Astin)
and, of course, the return of
Gandalf (gay fave Ian McKellen,
another victim of Oscar’s snub).
simple two-hour treat
about a charming
young man
(Charlie Hun-
nam of the U.K.
Queer as Folk)
who befriends a dis
abled orphan (Jamie
Bell of Billy Elliot). Homo
erotic subtext aside, the cast is full
of “family” (Nathan Lane and Alan Gumming)
and “friends” (Barry Humphries, aka Dame Edna).
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director Roman Polanski’s best film since
1974’s Chinatown.
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Joe Carnahan wrote and
directed this tight drama about
two morally ambiguous police
officers (Jason Patrie and Ray
Liotta, both excellent) investigat
ing the murder of a fellow cop.
Strong performances, shocking
twists and uneasy answers keep the familiar ter
ritory captivating.
-JR
N icholas N ickleby
Writer/director Douglas McGrath (Emma)
whittles the Charles Dickens classic down to a
.
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Adrien Brody ( The Thin Red Line) delivers
one of the strongest performances in recent
memory as a musician enduring the Nazi
destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. This har
rowing, inspiring survival story is easily
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Two men (a nurse and a journalist) bond
while waiting'for two women (a dancer and
a matador) to come out of their comas in
Pedro Alm odovar’s latest quirky soap opera.
T he gay writer/director explores the striking
contrasts between the couples but ventures
into creepy territory when the nurse,
whose sexuality is questionable, lets
his obsession with the dancer go
too far.
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