CW10 Beaumont Movie Reviews
'Brooklyn's Finest' is not so fine
Irony underlies the title of "Brooklyn's Finest," a drama about cops who are anything but fine at their jobs.
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'Alice' through a drearier looking glass
In Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," Alice has grown — not by "drink me" potion or "eat me" cake — into a 19-year-old girl.
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'A Prophet' displays visionary talent
Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" traces the evolution of an illiterate French-Arab inmate who uses his time well in prison, learning to read and write, studying economics, picking up a new language.
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Racial drama 'Blood' recalls a torn South
It is not surprising that Timothy Tyson's riveting, race-focused 2004 memoir "Blood Done Sign My Name" made it to the screen, although the man who brought it there might raise an eyebrow.
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Polanski casts well in 'Ghost Writer'
If Roman Polanski has great insights on the notion of exile, he did not put them on-screen in "The Ghost Writer.
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Weirdness rules Posey, Moore's 'Tears'
That independent-film specialty, the comic drama about dysfunctional family reunions, has come to this: Parker Posey and Demi Moore cleaning up after Rip Torn's poo.
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'Shutter Island' is long, tiresome gloom
Martin Scorsese clearly had a ball making "Shutter Island," which seemingly hurls everything the director knows about filmmaking up on screen in a blazing, masterful technical triumph.
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