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I got on this site because I thought I could get tickets to review films...but I can do that on my own s ...
Review of Once
BrilliantI've really never seen a movie like this. Music can have such a gentle yet powerful nature, and this film captures that brilliantly. I don't know much about John Carney, but I like that he wrote and directed this film; I'm sure it could be accidental, but the tightness of ... read morePosted on 12/31/2007 by chrisrayn 
Review of Juno
Knocked Up, Quirky Hipster StyleHonestly, the title sequence had me worried. The opening scene about the chair was decent, but the cartoony title sequence had me jittery. The next sections of dialogue worried me as well. However, though the quirky, hipster dialogue overshoots any boundaries of normalcy with the real world, I eventually settled ... read morePosted on 12/29/2007 by chrisrayn 
Review of American Gangster
More Gangs of New YorkAmerican Gangster is one of those films that takes great risk in treading where many feet have already. Any gangster film produced these days has been preceded by a number of capable predecessors: The Godfather films, Goodfellas, The Departed, etc. In fact, the latter of those won best picture at ... read morePosted on 12/29/2007 by chrisrayn Five films, Two Theaters, One Day, Immeasurable JoySo, just for the hell of it, yesterday I went on an adventure. Well, not an adventure actually - more like a quest. I had a definite goal, not a loose configuration of expectations. I desperately wanted to see a lot of films in the metroplex (Dallas and its surrounding ... read morePosted on 12/28/2007 by chrisrayn 
Review of Atonement
Not the Same Old SongWhen I walked into the Angelika Plano to view Atonement, it was rumored to my ears to be the next Titanic. Some may view this as a good thing, but I did not. Now, perhaps my problems with Titanic were directly related to the poisonous girlfriend I had at the ... read morePosted on 12/28/2007 by chrisrayn |
