Tagged: Jeffrey Wright

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The Good Dinosaur (2015)

Offering up a sort of alternate prehistory on what might have happened had the theoretical asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago that wiped out all of the dinosaurs not occurred, dinosaurs are...

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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Indie film giant Jim Jarmusch writes and directs another genre musing with Only Lovers Left Alive, which offers a different take on the vampire movie, a subgenre that one would think would have few new...

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Source Code (2011)

Oh, how to relate the plot? Jake Gyllenhaal (Prince of Persia, Jarhead) stars as Air Force Captain Colter Stevens, a U.S. pilot in the War in Afghanistan who finds himself inhabiting the body of a...

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W. (2008)

A politics hawk like myself will find the premise of W. fascinating above and beyond the merit of its filmmaking value.  Oliver Stone (World Trade Center, U-Turn) has been an uneven director throughout his career, and if...

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Lady in the Water (2006)

Although M. Night Shyamalan is a very talented writer and director, his films are becoming progressively more ambitious, and unfortunately, progressively tricky to suspend disbelief in.  Lady in the Water is his most ambitious film yet,...

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Broken Flowers (2005)

Nicely directed by quirky filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, and just as nicely performed in the comic subtlety department by veteran Bill Murray, Broken Flowers may lose more mainstream audiences expecting an obvious laugh riot, but those looking...

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Syriana (2005)

Gripping in parts, convoluted and stagnant in others, Syriana is screenwriter Steven Gaghan’s attempt to provide an insider’s peek into the varying forces at play in the continuing Middle Eastern oil and terrorism struggles, similar...

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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Remaking a time-honored classic film seems like a useless task, as part of the reason why the original is considered classic is due to the ability to endure over time and speak to different...