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This delightfully quirky film casts
cult movie hem Bruce Campbell
(The Evil Dead) as Elvis Presley, alive and
(except for the cancerous growth on his
dick) and staying at a Texas nursing home.
When an ancient Egyptian mummy starts
stalking the old folks, he teams up with JFK
(Ossie Davis) to annihilate the beast. It might
sound silly, but it’s surprisingly heartwarming.
—Jim Radosta
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This stone-funny drag sendup of Valley of
the Dolls and All About Eve, which opens
Nov. 7 at Cinema 21, boasts three com­
manding performances: Evie (Jack Plotnick)
as a washed-up B-movie hag who, asked
about abortion, says, “I’ve had more
children pulled out of me than a
burning orphanage”; her beleaguered
roommate/slave Coco Peru (Clinton
Leupp); and Varla (Jeffery Rober­
son) as the (scheming?) ingenue
with stars in her eyes. Hilarious and
highly recommended.
— Gary Morris
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ness and racial “passing.” Anthony Hopkins
hasn’t had a character this fresh in ages, and
Nicole Kidman just seems to keep getting bet­
ter. Imperfect, but worth it.
— Christopher McQuam
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This generally endearing Spanish comedy
about a number of mixed-up meetings at the
center of Madrid (Kilometer 0 of the Puerta del
Sol) on the honest day of the year won the
Audience Award last year at Portland’s queer
film festival. Finally opening Nov. 7 at Fox
Tower, most of its montage of stories are charm­
ing enough, but one of the segments about a
would-be actress trying to manipulate a part out
of a famous director becomes weirdly creepy.
— Lisa Bradshaw
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drama is based on a John
Grisham novel about the
tobacco industry but decides
to takes on gun manufactur­
ers instead. The film’s heart is in the right
place and the ensemble is undeniably strong
(John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoff­
man), but the bombastic tone quickly becomes
rather ludicrous.
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W hen a dwarf (Peter Dinklage) inherits a
rural train depot from his boss, he seizes the
opportunity to move away from the prying
eyes of a society that constantly makes him
feel like an outcast. Instead, he
winds up forming an unlikely yet
touching bond with a gregarious
hot dog vendor (Bobby Can-
navale) and a grieving mother
(Patricia Clarkson). Easily one of
the year’s best films.
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gtxxJ effect, and Jeffs fills in John Brownlow’s
stingy script with some substantive cinematic
texture. The film is a bit too pretty and
polite for its raw, unstable subject, but Jeffs
gives Paltrow some eerily spot-on Plath-
channeling moments.
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Gwyneth Paltrow and director
Christine Jeffs just manage to pull
off this biopic about anguished,
famously suicidal poet Sylvia
Plath. A s in The Royal Tenen-
baurns, Paltrow exploits her own
brittle, neurasthenic presence to
It has too many classy, Oscar-
grubbing trappings (the grandiose
orchestral score! the piety!), but
Robert Benton’s film of Philip Roth’s
2000 novel deftly pierces the raw
issues of campus political correct­
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Remaking a cult classic can be tricky, but
this gorgeously shot horror film hits every beat
just right. There’s lots of screaming (from
nubile and sweaty males and females), some
bkxxJ (not nearly as much as in Kill Bill) and
an insane acting job by R. Lee Ermey as Sheriff
Hoyt that steals the show. Though the
“based on a true story” tag is cheesy,
the movie itself is well worth a ticket
for horror fans.
— Andy Mangels
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