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Polisse—movie review
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 18, 2012 12:01 AM
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'Polisse' is a sprawling but vivid portrait of the Paris police department’s Child Protection Unit, a tight-knit group of colleagues whose emotionally draining work (like protecting children from sexual predators within their own family) affects their private lives as well as their relationships on the job.
The Dictator—movie review
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 16, 2012 9:59 PM
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As someone who was completely disarmed by 'Borat', then disappointed by' Bruno', I hoped Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest comedy would hit that sweet spot again, especially since he is working with his longtime collaborators, director Larry Charles and writers Alec Berg, David Mandel, and Jeff Schaffer. I certainly couldn’t have foreseen a film as sloppy and mediocre as this.
Hollywood’s Kiddie Connection
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 15, 2012 9:25 PM
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What do Jerry Lewis, Bugs Bunny, and Hopalong Cassidy have in common? They all recorded special material for an innovative kid-oriented Capitol Records series in the 1940s and ‘50s. This amazing output, perfectly timed for the baby boom of the post-World War II era, has now been exhaustively documented by Jack Mirtle in his self-published book 'The Capitol Records Childrens' Series: 1944 to 1956: The Complete Discography'.
Dark Shadows—movie review
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 11, 2012 1:00 AM
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It makes sense that for Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton to get in on the current vampire craze, they’d have to approach it with a sense of humor. I doubt if many young viewers know that they’ve based their new film on a forty-year-old daytime TV drama, and it scarcely matters. Dark Shadows is an amusing piece of high camp, stoked by Depp’s deadpan star performance and the kind of elaborate trappings one would expect from Burton. (His longtime production designer, Rick Heinrichs, has done another beautiful job with both real and virtual sets.)
Hollywood’s Hobo In Residence
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 10, 2012 12:55 AM
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Had I not been lucky enough to see William Wellman’s 1928 silent film 'Beggars of Life' years ago, or read the works of Gene Fowler, I might not know about Jim Tully, the scrappy Irish-American who became celebrated for writing about the subject he knew best: the hardscrabble life of an orphan turned boxer turned “road kid.”
A Fitting “Noir City” Festival Finale
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 8, 2012 12:54 AM
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I always look forward to the film noir festival at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre. This year’s finale on Sunday night featured the eloquent, ever-youthful Marsha Hunt (who, incredibly, is 94) talking about her career after watching a film she made in 1949 and never saw before:' Mary Ryan, Detective'. It’s not a rediscovered classic, but a well-made Columbia B movie about a female cop who goes undercover to bust a stolen-jewelry racket.
The Avengers—movie review
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 4, 2012 1:01 AM
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If every summer blockbuster or comic-book movie were as good as 'Marvel’s The Avengers' I’d greet the upcoming release slate with a lot more enthusiasm…but there aren’t many writer-directors as talented as Joss Whedon. Indeed, it’s the writing that sets this film apart...
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel—movie review
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 4, 2012 12:49 AM
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When a film has a dream cast led by Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, and Bill Nighy, you can’t go far wrong, and that is exactly the case with Ol Parker’s adaptation of the novel by prolific British television and screenwriter Deborah Moggach, whose credits include the 2005 version of 'Pride and Prejudice'.
The First Marvel ‘Avenger’ On The Screen
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 3, 2012 1:00 AM
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Joss Whedon’s' The Avengers' gathers a galaxy of Marvel Comics superstars, but I wish more people could see the first comic book superhero to make the leap to the big screen: Captain Marvel, in what many aficionados consider the best serial ever made, 'The Adventures of Captain Marvel' (1941).
THE LEGENDARY LYDECKER BROTHERS
- By Leonard Maltin
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- May 2, 2012 9:05 PM
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At last, someone has paid proper tribute to Howard and Theodore Lydecker, the legendary siblings who created unforgettable visual effects for Republic Pictures’ action-packed serials, westerns, and feature films during the studio’s heyday.
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