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NYFF Review: BLADE RUNNER- THE FINAL CUT

September 28, 2007 Rich Drees

Although it confused critics and audiences in its initial 1982 release, Ridley Scott’s science-fiction noir Blade Runner remains, a quarter of a century later, not only one of the most important films in the director’s [click for more]

NYFF Review: THE ORPHANAGE

September 28, 2007 Rich Drees

While the Japanese have certainly overworked the spooky-ghost child meme for all it is worth over the last several years, there is still power in the tragic notion of a life full of potential being [click for more]

NYFF Review: 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS

September 28, 2007 Rich Drees

Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s film 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days is a stark and dark look at life in 1980s communist-controlled Romania, a look more chilling than any horror film, as it is [click for more]

NYFF Review: THE DARJEELING LIMITED

September 27, 2007 Rich Drees

Director Wes Anderson seems to like putting dysfunctional family units into confined spaces and then sitting back to see what happens. The characters don’t have to be blood related, as are the inhabitants of the [click for more]

Review: DRAGON WARS: D-WAR

September 15, 2007 Rich Drees

“I keep trying to understand, but none of this is making any sense.” So states Sarah (Amanda Brooks), a character who is more of a plot device than anything else, expressing her exasperation at the [click for more]

Review: 3:10 TO YUMA

September 7, 2007 Rich Drees

All film genres go through cycles of popularity. At their height, the public’s hunger for them is insatiable. At their depths, they play to nearly empty houses, the public dismissing them with a memory for [click for more]

Review: HALLOWEEN

August 31, 2007 Rich Drees

Fear of the unknown is something that is hardwired into everyone. That fear of vague shapes that go bump in the dark is what drives director John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween. With its pale-masked [click for more]

Review: THE LAST LEGION

August 18, 2007 Rich Drees

Rome, 460 AD. Court intrigues have seen the past five emperors assassinated over the previous five years and the barbarians are literally at the gates. Following the coronation of the young boy Romulus Augustus (Thomas [click for more]

Review: THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM

August 3, 2007 Rich Drees

After a summer blockbuster season that contained a myriad of films that, for better or worse, placed the staging of their action set pieces over such concerns as story logic and intelligence, The Bourne Ultimatum [click for more]

Review: I KNOW WHO KILLED ME

July 28, 2007 Rich Drees

It is a premise that sounds as if it would appeal to thrill master Alfred Hitchcock, or at the least one of his imitators like Brian De Palma. A young college student, Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay [click for more]