Matt Soergel

MOVIE REVIEW: UNFLINCHING ACCOUNT FEELS TERRIFYINGLY REAL

In United 93, Wesley Snipes isn't at the controls and Jennifer Aniston's not pushing the service cart up and down the aisles. Bruce Willis isn't coming along to save the day in the third act.

This film offers none of those familiar comforts. Instead it's an unflinching, taut and shattering experience of astonishing power.

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MOVIE REVIEW: YOU NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY GIRL

Someone should have suggested to the people involved in Basic Instinct 2 that they might, you know, have had a little fun with the whole thing. It needs a chuckle, some campy zest perhaps, or at least a wink or two aimed in our direction.

Instead, they approach it with all the zeal of someone conscripted for a re-creation of the Bataan Death March, with only a marathon Yanni concert and a flat diet soda waiting at the end for the survivors.

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MOVIE REVIEW: SIN CITY

Sin City jumps off the screen, grabs you by the collar, roughs you up a bit, blows cigarette smoke in your face, then charges off down a dark, wet alley in a giant red Caddy with fins.

What hit you? This film-noir nightmare is supremely nasty and violent and completely over-the-top. It's supercharged, wildly imaginative and gorgeous to look at it. And it's floridly quotable, morbidly funny and wears its big romantic heart right out on the sleeve of its overcoat or pinned on its fishnet peekaboo top.

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