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Montreal movies

FILM

Let’s Play Who’s The Fool

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Dinner for Schmucks, Various Theatres

by Alex Woolcott
03.08.2010

There is a slight subversive twist to Dinner for Schmucks, the new comedy directed by Jay Roach. Based on the French film Le dîner des cons, the movie concerns a hapless businessman who must bring an idiot to a dinner party in order to impress his boss.

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Alice As Bourgeois Revolutionary

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Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton

by Matt Jones
10.06.2010

By now it’s become a truism among film critics that Tim Burton’s misleadingly-titled Alice in Wonderland is the nadir of a decade the director spent making high-budget butcheries of deeply-loved classic films that usually get described as both “visual treats” and “pieces of shit.”

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Polished And Buff

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Jerry Bruckheimer Films

by Marvin Allen
09.06.2010

This might be the first time a movie based on a video game has received such an extensive amount of production value, and it shows. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is based on the 2003 video game of the same name. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and company with the same level of care [...]

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Bloody Elegant Justice

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Harry Brown, AMC Forum

by Jean-Michel Lacombe
26.05.2010

Daniel Barber’s full-length feature, Harry Brown, is a bloody tale starring Michael Caine as the titular pensioner vigilante who delivers his own brand of street justice in modern-day London. Winner of a slew of awards for his first short film, the celebrated director of TV commercials has debuted with a movie that’s a genre exercise [...]

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