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No Concessions: “The Other Boleyn Girl”

Jason Zingale March 1, 2008 3

For those that aren’t completely sick and tired of trashy melodramas centered on Queen Elizabeth (I and II), director Justin Chadwick takes a slightly different approach with The Other Boleyn Girl: a movie that

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No Concessions: “Charlie Bartlett”

Jason Zingale February 22, 2008 0

We critics like to make a big fuss over films that have had their release dates pushed back — usually because it’s a sign of a studio’s lack of confidence in the final product

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No Concessions: “In Bruges”

Jason Zingale February 22, 2008 0

Martin McDonagh’s In Bruges is an interesting little film. It’s one part action-comedy, one-part Shakespearean tragedy, and no matter how fucked up that may sound, it completely works. Arranged like an off-Broadway production of

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