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DUANE BYRGE Movie Reviews

55 reviews, averaging 68.3% positive
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The Great Buck Howard

Hollywood Reporter
01/20/08 Very Good "Malkovich conveys the admirable fiber and resilience of a once-great. Colin Hanks also distills the inner mettle of the affable, but resolute Troy."
2.

Blind Date

Hollywood Reporter
01/20/08 Moderate "...the film's cavalier verbal excesses and posings are countered by the two fine lead performances. Tucci, flexing an epicene machismo... Clarkson taps underlying truths and insights."
3.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Hollywood Reporter
01/22/08 Excellent "...reverential and smart... Rawson Marshall Thurber has captured the essence of the coming-of-age novel.... It's the players that invigorate the film..."
4.

Phoebe in Wonderland

Hollywood Reporter
01/22/08 Excellent "...tech contributions are masterful. Christophe Beck's score is aptly whimsical and fearsome... Bobby Bukowski's smart visual compositions are similarly succinct."
5.

Death in Love

Hollywood Reporter
01/25/08 Outstanding "...a stirring glimpse of the ongoing emotional ordeal of a Jewish family... a vivid and unsparing family portrait..."
6.

A Beautiful Life (US, 2009)

Hollywood Reporter
05/18/08 Moderate "Although director Alejandro Chomski has crafted a hard-edged social statement, that vision is muddled by the story's generic histrionics and pat predictability."
7.

Of Time and the City

Hollywood Reporter
05/20/08 Outstanding "The Catholic Church and the royal family are skewered. Davies does not pull punches, but it's obvious that they are inspired by his deep love for the people of Liverpool."
8.

O'Horten

Hollywood Reporter
05/21/08 Outstanding "In this big-small story, we appreciate that Odd is on a personal quest more harrowing and acute than faced by the common superhero."
9.

Yonkers Joe

Hollywood Reporter
10/31/08 Moderate "Although his storytelling is ambitious and generally well wrought, filmmaker Robert Celestino rolls the story dice too hard: Ultimately, the film turns up Hallmark..."
10.

Rudo y Cursi

Hollywood Reporter
01/17/09 Excellent "...a universal entertainment buoyed by Cuaron's gifted storytelling and realized by the charismatic lead performances of Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal."
11.

Toe to Toe

Hollywood Reporter
01/18/09 Very Good "...springs out with an emotional verve... Highest marks to Emily Abt -- who wrote, directed and produced -- for her perceptive and scorching portrait of teenage friendship."
12.

The Greatest

Hollywood Reporter
01/18/09 Excellent "...a stunning fete, drawing an audience into a comprehensive film about grief.... transcends a clinical depiction of grief, which in less assured hands could have morphed into a talking-heads essay."
13.

World's Greatest Dad

Hollywood Reporter
01/19/09 Poor "...dunderheaded delirium... dimwitted ditty."
14.

Adventureland

Hollywood Reporter
01/20/09 Outstanding "...based on the sincere dreams and frustrations of its teenage characters. It embraces their anxieties, dreams and youthful valor."
15. 01/21/09 Outstanding "...has no bounds. It's a disturbing, overwhelming story of one Harlem girl's merciless degradations..."
16.

The Answer Man

Hollywood Reporter
01/22/09 Outstanding "...an endearing, smart social satire and better yet an engaging glimpse into one lost soul's return to his humanity, one laced with droll dialogue as well as acerbic wit."
17.

Big Fan

Hollywood Reporter
01/25/09 Very Good "Dark and engrossing... it's evident from the football particulars and story line in this well-executed entertainment that Siegel is a knowledgeable football fan."
18.

Moon

Hollywood Reporter
01/26/09 Very Good "...well-assembled... Cloned smartly from trusted story forms... converges a frontier saga with an escape mechanism. sci-fi thriller."
19.

Art & Copy

Hollywood Reporter
04/06/09 Good "...opens up a window into the advertising world, unveiling the cast of creative characters who have composed some of the most successful ad campaigns."
20.

In My Sleep

Hollywood Reporter
05/16/09 Very Good "...a well-stirred titillation that will appeal to twentysomething audiences and movie-buff viewers... the protagonist, while flawed, is completely likable and honorable."

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