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Entries from March 1, 2005 - April 1, 2005
Robots
Posted Saturday, March 12, 2005 in Movie Reviews
[National Review Online, March 14, 2005]
Towards the end of "Robots," a character resembling the Tin Man of Oz clutches his chest and says, "Now I know I have a heart, because I can feel it breaking."
Better check again. This animated feature has just about every pounding, clanking, or squeaking mechanism imaginable, but nothing in the shape of a heart. What it's mostly got going for it is an extraordinary look, and that look is undeniably a humdinger. This movie's visual style is so appealing you can't gobble up the screen fast enough.
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Be Cool
Posted Monday, March 7, 2005 in Movie Reviews
[National Review Online, March 4, 2005]
Every once in awhile a comedy comes along that is bright and quirky enough that it lingers companionably in the mind a long time after. "Get Shorty" (1995) was one of those movies; the first time I saw it, I spent the ending credits wearing a big grin, thinking back over delicious scenes and wishing I could see more of those characters. They were reliably, satisfyingly odd, in the way that only someone who has a lot of complicated past history can be. What you saw on the screen had a tip-of-the-iceberg quality.
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