Reviews Archive

Woman on the Beach

Korean director gets accessible with his latest portrait of sex, power and chain-smoking

By Vadim Rizov

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December 21, 2007

Sweeney Todd

Hollywood's most consistent force serves up another slice of gothic heaven

By Eric Kohn

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December 20, 2007

Charlie Wilson's War

Nichols and Co.'s foreign policy caper puts up a decent fight, but Hoffman wins the War

By Michelle Orange

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Walk Hard

Biopic parody owes a debt to the Zuckers with comedy that's big, silly and very surreal

By Matt Singer

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There Will Be Blood

P.T. Anderson's monumental departure from form draws blood

By Vadim Rizov

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December 13, 2007

The Kite Runner

Adaptation nails blandness of Hosseini's prose, but not the book's redeeming cultural engagement

By Michelle Orange

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Youth Without Youth

Coppola returns with a dense, intricately cinematic meditation on the limits of creative ambition

By Keith Uhlich

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December 12, 2007

Nanking

Chronicle of an atrocity lacks insight into -- but not the relentless horror of -- its subject

By Vadim Rizov

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December 6, 2007

Atonement

Wright's adaptation hits its tearjerking marks but misses the book's central idea

By Vadim Rizov

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The Walker

Schrader's sex and politics ethical thriller gets caught -- and stuck -- in the wayback machine

By Vadim Rizov

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