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Brooklyn's Finest a Clichéd Mess

Kevin Spak — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:46:00 CST

Brooklyn’s Finest , the latest from Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, is “a billy-club sandwich: three cop dramas piled one on top of the other, separated by layers of dramatic cheese," writes Ty Burr of the Boston Globe . About an hour in, “you hit gristle.” Sound appetizing? Critics agree that it’s...

Year's Top 10 Moments of Celeb Activism

Matt Cantor — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:50:01 CST

It’s been a big year for celebrity activism—so big that it deserves its own year-end top 10 list, Tina Daunt writes in the Los Angeles Times . Some famous faces that made a difference in 2008: Oprah Winfrey fought hard for Barack Obama, including hosting a traffic-stopping garden party. Norman...

Traitor 's Layered Thrills Impress

Matt Cantor — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:40:11 CDT

Critics are impressed with terrorism thriller Traitor ’s maze of a plot, superb acting, and moral ambiguity. The film squeezes “a vast and sometimes contradictory compendium of post-9/11 fears and anxieties into 110 swift minutes” while trying “to cover every side and cater to just about every possible ideological objection,...

Ocean's 14 Beached: Cheadle

Kevin Spak — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:37:11 CDT

George Clooney and friends won’t be pulling off any more heists on the big screen, OK! reports. Asked whether he would act in an Ocean’s 14, co-star Don Cheadle replied flatly, “No. Done. It’s a wrap.” Steven Soderbergh's star-studded series, now apparently scrapped after three films, has grossed more than...

THAT OLD BLACK MAGIC

J. Kelman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:21:07 CDT

As if Barack Obama did not face enough obstacles, the junior senator from Illinois with Oval Office aspirations is likened to a "magic negro" by David Ehrenstein. The "magic negro" is a cultural and cinematic racial stereotype exemplified by some of the characters played by Sidney Poitier, Scatman Crothers, Morgan...