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JOSEF BRAUN
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

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Total Reviews: 48


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" A gift to anyone who loves both dance and cinema"
Posted Feb 3, 2003
 
Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002)60%
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" Even if Invincible is not quite the career peak that The Pianist is for Roman Polanski, it demonstrates that Werner Herzog can still leave us with a sense of wonder at the diverse, marvelously twisted shapes history has taken."
Posted Feb 3, 2003
 
Invincible (2002)53%
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" It skillfully accomplishes the horror genre's most basic goal: scaring the hell out of you."
Posted Feb 3, 2003
 
Final Destination 2 (2003)46%
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" The most beguiling amalgamation yet of Almodóvar's pet themes."
Posted Feb 3, 2003
 
Talk to Her (2002)92%
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" Every single scene conveys a significant and concise narrative development, yet does so in an unassuming, patient fashion that emphasizes detail."
Posted Jan 23, 2003
 
Orphan of Anyang (2002)75%
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" The evil twin of A Beautiful Mind: take out the false life-affirming tone and moral clarity from Howard's movie, add some nasty humour and you get box-office poison."
Posted Jan 23, 2003
 
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)78%
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" For attaining a sense of sheer, unadulterated awe, it's difficult to imagine many films that could satisfy cinemagoers quite as resoundingly as Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)96%
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" It brings a brute freshness to the Hollywood epic and confirms Scorsese's abilities as a master storyteller, a director capable of managing both scale and precision, spectacle and depth."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
Gangs of New York (2002)76%
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" The film glides through its well-structured script, letting the audience coast along with it and allowing the performers to stay loose and limber. And that's what's wonderful about Catch Me If You Can—it's a chase picture that's all about the perfo"
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
Catch Me If You Can (2002)96%
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" Antwone Fisher certainly does the trick of making us care about its protagonist and celebrate his victories but, with few exceptions, it rarely stoops to cheap manipulation or corny conventions to do it."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
Antwone Fisher (2002)80%
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" Where Moulin Rouge was all cinema trickery and no guts, Rob Marshall has found a perfect balance of the two. Chicago is absolutely visceral."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
Chicago (2002)87%
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" Payne pokes fun of these people and these places because they're what he knows best. And, to my eye, he's also not above finding redeeming virtues in every last one of them."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
About Schmidt (2002)85%
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" Perhaps Tarr's greatest gift is his merciless sense of cinematic economy and an ambiguity that springs not from some intellectual conceit but from the sheer honesty of his gaze."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
Werckmeister Harmonies (2001)96%
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" Try as you might to scrutinize the ethics of Kaufman's approach, somehow it all comes together to create a very compelling, sensitive, intelligent and almost cohesive piece of film entertainment."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
Adaptation (2002)90%
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" Pumpkin is a movie that resists categorization, that manages wit, intelligence, audacity and pointed social commentary while still entertaining us with a terrifically bizarre combination of soapy, ultra-stylized satire and blackly comic fairytale."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
Pumpkin (2002)39%
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" Narc may not be an exceptional cop film but it is a solid one, a tragedy of pervasive corruption in which honour is no more beneficial than deceit."
Posted Jan 19, 2003
 
Narc (2002)83%
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" While certainly no revelation, Knockaround Guys isn’t anywhere near as lousy as the hype would have you believe."
Posted Oct 10, 2002
 
Knockaround Guys (2002)19%
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" A sly blend of Douglas Sirk melodrama and Jacques Demy musical; a playfully reconfigured crackerjack murder mystery as thoroughly engrossing as it is lovingly contrived."
Posted Oct 10, 2002
 
8 Women (2002)78%
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" It's actually kinda scary. Scary in a really, really dumb way, but scary!"
Posted Oct 1, 2002
 
Eight Legged Freaks (2002)48%
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" Transcends the 'chick flick' label with a touch so light and smart it never has to bother trying to win over your sympathies to either sex."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
Lovely & Amazing (2002)85%
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" Just about the surest bet for an all-around good time at the movies this summer."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)75%
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" Shyamalan’s got to be the best Hollywood suspense director since Brian de Palma."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
Signs (2002)74%
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" It all sounds absurd, but in its best moments, XXX is infused with an authority that’s rare in action movies."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
XXX (2002)47%
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" Neil LaBute’s most mature movie yet, the work of a moralist coming to terms with a world of blurred morals."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
Possession (2002)64%
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" Something in this film sticks to you more than you think it will while you’re watching it. And I think that something is the superb, jarringly resonant central performance by Jennifer Aniston."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
The Good Girl (2002)81%
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" One Hour Photo may seem disappointing in its generalities, but it’s the little nuances that perhaps had to escape from director Mark Romanek’s self-conscious scrutiny to happen, that finally get under your skin."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
One Hour Photo (2002)81%
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" Writer/director Walter Hill is in his hypermasculine element here, once again able to inject some real vitality and even art into a pulpy concept that, in many other hands would be completely forgettable."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
Undisputed (2002)48%
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" For me, acting rarely makes or breaks a movie, but there’s so much heart invested in the characters at the centre of this film that I found myself captivated, for just a while, by the troubles of those people up on the screen."
Posted Sep 30, 2002
 
City by the Sea (2002)49%

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