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Posts Tagged ‘Javier Bardem’

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

By Jandy • Aug 14th, 2008 • Category: Film Reviews

Leaving New York for London with Match Point revitalized Woody Allen’s career in 2005; now he picks up shop again, this time seeking inspiration in Spain. And again, the move does him good, as Vicky Cristina Barcelona evokes, though perhaps does not quite equal, his greatest triumphs.


No Country for Old Men

By Jandy • Jan 5th, 2008 • Category: Capsule Reviews

Critics around the country have been lavishing praise on the Coen brothers‘ adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel for months now, and that praise is not undeserved. After churning out the undistinguished Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers, the Coens are back in form; No Country for Old Men is the perfect vehicle for their violent, macabre humor [...]