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Larry Fahey
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The Rumpus Review of Tree Of Life
Terrence Malick gets points for sincerity. In fact, he gets all the points for sincerity, every single one of them.
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The Rumpus Review of Stone
If the only thing you’ve seen of the new Robert De Niro/Edward Norton film, Stone, is the trailer, you may feel that your membership in the Robert De Niro Disappointment Club has been justified yet again.
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All Thumbs: Roger Ebert and the Decline of Film Criticism
I hate Roger Ebert. This may not be the most tactful time to say so, what with his genuinely brave fight against cancer, his inspiring display of spirit and endurance, and the endless adulation all this has encouraged in the…
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Larry Fahey: The Last Book I Loved, Bullet Park
I should say at the outset that while Bullet Park is a good book, and in my opinion a great book, it is not a sound book. Cheever is rightly (though myopically) criticized for never having really solved the novel,…
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A Dark, Dark Summer Day: Fahey vs. Hollywood
How much bad Hollywood filmmaking can one man take in a day? With my wife and kids out of town for a week, I decided to find out.
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The Rumpus Review of Inception
Here’s a little news worth sharing: Christopher Nolan does not shit solid gold. Like most people, he shits shit. Inception, for example. Let me explain:
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Something Steely, Unsympathetic, and Cold: A Reconsideration of Mary Poppins
Something horrible is coming to 17 Cherry Tree Lane.
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The Rumpus Review of Kick-Ass
If the sight of a 10-year-old girl acrobatically and graphically hacking up a roomful of muscle-bound drug dealers makes you squirm, then Kick-Ass is not your kind of film. Also, we probably can’t be friends.
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The Rumpus Review of Chloe
Egoyan skillfully balances a rote exercise in marital discord with a less-rote exercise in narrative suspense; but it’s hard to shake the feeling that the former exists only to distract from the shortcomings of the latter.
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The Rumpus Review of Shutter Island
When Scorsese makes a new film, the question is less whether it’s good than whether the decision to make it in the first place was good.
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The Rumpus Review of A Serious Man
What is it with the Coen brothers, technical masters who tend to use their skills for no meaningful purpose?
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The Rumpus Review of Jennifer’s Body
It’s funny, the word choice in the title of Jennifer’s Body, the gory horror-comedy from, improbably enough, the writer and producers of Juno, 2007’s teen pregnancy comedy.