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Teeth is a somewhat
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muddled horror/thriller/
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vagina dentata. I know, you’re thinking, “Oh God,
breathe life into this complex hut always intelligi
not another man-eating-vagina movie," but Teeth
ble drama. Acting is uniformly excellent, although
does feature a few semi-funny moments along with
Dekker occasionally slips over the top during one
a determined and surprisingly effective performance
of her screaming denunciations—“Stuff your fuck
from Heather Graham look-alike Jess Weixler as the
ing money!”—of Sonia and the system that
girl with a pronounced tendency to overbite.
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Unfortunately, director Mitchell Lichtenstein can’t
Some viewers might be put off by a kind of
decide whether he is imitating David Lynch, Michael
“magic realism” in which characters who aren’t
Lehmann or any number of 1980s teen gross-out
actually present pop up in each other’s bedrooms or
horror comedies, so the film veers wildly in tone
kitchens for philosophical chats. But this is minor
and style. Still, it isn’t every day you get to see
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Thelma & Louise writer Callie Khouri directed
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her husband (Ted Danson) gets laid off. Having nev
of oilman Daniel Plainview and the vicious com
er held a job in her life, she accepts the only one she
petitive streak that shoves every human feeling out
can find: a janitor position at the Federal Reserve
of his life. Influenced by the work of directors like
Bank. She befriends co-workers Nina (Queen
Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick and Robert
Latifah) and Jackie (Katie Holmes), and together
Altman, There Will Be Blood is psychologically
they come up with a plan to steal the money that
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Marjane Satrapi’s celebrated graphic novels about
growing up in Iran and Austria have jumped from the
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
page to the screen with most of their charm, intelli
It’s always annoying to see a comedy full of smug
gence and edginess intact. Except for a few color
faced actors who can’t help but let the audience
scenes, Satrapi and co-director Vincent Paronnaud
know they’re in on the joke. This is exactly why John
stick to simple black-and-white animation that is
C. Reilly’s earnest face is a refreshing fit for a faux
refreshingly heartfelt and old-fashioned compared to
biopic. Whether ripping sinks out of the wall,
all the frenetic computer animation out there. It
lamenting his “smell blindness” or singing lines like,
takes a while for the film to strike a balance between
“In my dreams, you’re blowing me.. .some kisses,” he
Satrapi’s silly humor and her horrifying recollections
carries the picture. Don’t miss the full-frontal male
about war and oppression in Iran, but by the midway
nudity in the hotel scene. A-
point the story is completely engrossing on both
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