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...this point, Bad Education at least superficially becomes a devious, well-done thriller populated by a nasty baddie using sex-disguised-as-love as his weapon. The film??€™s latter half drags occasionally as Almodovar rather hastily attempts to thread the earlier narrative into the prescient flashbacks that dominate the film??€™s last 30 minutes...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review - Bad Education | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...Almodovar’s graceful balancing between damaged identity and cinematic fantasy is the film??€™s greatest accomplishment. The film-within-the-film prepares us for this trapeze act as it poses as Ignacio’s back-story, but turns out to be itself a fiction film??€”a kind of aggrandizing simulacra of Ignacio’s identity. After we are shown that Ignacio’s flashbacks are no more than an imaginary cinematic representation, Almodovar is able to effectively coincide his look at Ignacio’s childhood into...

Author: By Clint J. Froehlich, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review - Bad Education | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Perhaps George’s intent with Hotel Rwanda is to stimulate audiences to turn towards the current genocide in Darfur where the U.S. may end up repeating the mistakes it made in Rwanda. How disappointing, then, that the film??€™s good intentions ultimately fall victim to its own underwhelming quality...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review - Hotel Rwanda | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

Perhaps George’s intent with Hotel Rwanda is to stimulate audiences to turn towards the current genocide in Darfur where the U.S. may end up repeating the mistakes it made in Rwanda. How disappointing, then, that the film??€™s good intentions ultimately fall victim to its own underwhelming quality...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Movie Review - Hotel Rwanda | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...that freezes the Murdochian C.E.O. of his company, inciting the audience to cheer. But sometimes the astonishingly charismatic cast gels so well that the movie just coasts into fairy-tale territory. Particularly during the scenes of Alex and Duryea finding happiness with each other, in the words of another film??€™s tagline, “you will believe...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review - In Good Company | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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