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Variety.com - Film Reviews

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Variety.com - Film Reviews

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Australia

Film Reviews: Like a Rolls-Royce on a rocky country road, "Australia" is full of bounces and lurches, but you can't really complain about the seat.

Twilight

Film Reviews: "Twilight" is a disappointingly anemic tale of forbidden love that should satiate the pre-converted but will bewilder and underwhelm viewers who haven't devoured Stephenie Meyer's bestselling juvie chick-lit franchise. Built-in femme fanbase will lend this Summit Entertainment release some serious B.O. bite, with Robert Pattinson's turn as an undead heartthrob keeping repeat biz at a steady pump.

Super Typhoon (Chaoqiang taifeng)

Film Reviews: Billing itself as "the first super disaster movie of China," multihyphenate Feng Xiaoning's natural-weather extravaganza "Super Typhoon" registers high on ambition but considerably lower in execution.

I Can't Think Straight

Film Reviews: "I Can't Think Straight," novelist/filmmaker Shamim Sharif's lesbian romantic comedy, offers a lamely feel-good mix of the familiar and the exotic (female polo players, anyone?).

Cut Loose (Los)

Film Reviews: An idealistic Flemish journo has a hard time putting his money where his mouth is in helmer Jan Verheyen's "Cut Loose," a dramedy that tackles hot-button topics such as euthanasia and immigrant rights from a strictly personal p.o.v.

Waiting for Sancho

Film Reviews: A film of transformative power, provocation and no commercial potential whatsoever, "Waiting for Sancho" redefines the making-of film -- usually a long-form commercial, but here a real artistic inquiry and celebration of itself.

Ugly Melanie (Vilaine)

Film Reviews: Mildly revolting but far from satisfyingly so, "Ugly Melanie" is the kind of comedy where you can see the jokes coming from miles away and watch them burn out by the time they reach the screen.

Final Arrangements

Film Reviews: Entirely funereal but not at all funny, French undertaker comedy "Final Arrangements" transforms a decent concept into a hodgepodge of flat jokes and misguided emotions.

River People (Shuishang renjia )

Film Reviews: Teasingly halfway between documentary and fiction, "River People" limns the hardscrabble life of fishermen on China's Yellow River with a half-elegiac, half-realistic eye, from the p.o.v. of two teenage boys.

Niloofar

Film Reviews: A wobbly variation on the familiar theme of tradition-bound girls growing up in the 21st century, "Niloofar" applies a superficial approach to the potentially charged tale of a teen heroine being forcibly married off for money.

Breathless

Film Reviews: Way overlong at 130 minutes, and centered on characters who are almost all unsympathetic, "Breathless" still reps a head-turning debut by South Korean thesp Yang Ik-june as producer, director, writer and even star.

The Way We Are (Tin shui wai dik yat yu ye)

Film Reviews: Restrained but soul-enriching meller "The Way We Are" shows Hong Kong life not just as it is, but also as it should be. Vet helmer Ann Hui depicts a warm world situated between Yasujiro Ozu and Ken Loach in a film that blends kitchen-sink drama with poetic minutiae.

Transporter 3

Film Reviews: Once again starring the charismatic Jason Statham as organized crime's one-man FedEx, "Transporter 3," the third installment in the Luc Besson-produced action series, boasts a measure of the retro machismo, style and attitude some 007 fans have found lacking in "Quantum of Solace."

The Pit and the Pendulum (Yaktaljadeul)

Film Reviews: An ambitious experiment in narrative cinema largely goes the distance in first-time writer-director Sohn Young-sung's "The Pit and the Pendulum."

Proper Eyes (Por sus propios ojos)

Film Reviews: A documentary filmmaker student's encounter with the mother of a prisoner elicits subdued emotions in Liliana Paolinelli's mildly engaging feature debut, "Proper Eyes."

Miao Miao

Film Reviews: A bright piece of high school romantic fluff with strong gay undertones that's still a refreshing antidote to the usual navel-gazing dramas of friendship and sexual identity Taiwan has become famous for.

Playing Columbine

Film Reviews: While it raises far more questions that it can answer, pic serves as an impressively nuanced call for games to be taken more seriously, and it could find a healthy fest and homevideo reception from the gaming community and beyond.

Revolutionary Road

Film Reviews: "Revolutionary Road" is a very good bigscreen adaptation of an outstanding American novel -- faithful, intelligent, admirably acted, superbly shot. It also offers a near-perfect case study of the ways in which film is incapable of capturing certain crucial literary qualities, in this case the very things that elevate the book from being a merely insightful study of a deteriorating marriage into a remarkable one.

Bolt

Film Reviews: An "Incredible Journey" or "Homeward Bound" updated for the superhero era, "Bolt" is an OK Disney animated entry enhanced by nifty 3-D projection. The first inhouse feature from Disney Animation since Pixar guru John Lasseter took over the studio's creative reins, this tale of a canine forced to overcome his superdog complex and learn to become a regular pooch bears some telltale signs of Pixar's trademark smarts, but still looks like a mutt compared to the younger company's customary purebreds. While punchy enough to keep parents amused, pic will probably play best to small fry and, especially with Disney star Miley Cyrus onboard, will have no trouble chasing down hefty biz through the holidays.

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