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‘Ice Castles’ Review for FilmCritic.com

A remake of the 1978 cheeseball classic of the same name, a high school girl and her sweetheart are split up when he heads to college, and she goes off to become a professional ice skater. Their relationship is strained to the point of breaking, but the two lovers are brought back together when a tragic accident strikes her blind. Will she still be able to compete in the national skating competition? Will they fall back in love? Will she be able to be accepted for who she is, now that she can’t see?

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‘Eyes Wide Open’ Review For FilmCritic.com

Haim Tabakman’s new film Eyes Wide Open depicts, with seriousness and a slow intensity, the taboo homosexual relationship between an orthodox butcher and a young rabbinical student in a close-knit Jewish community in Jerusalem. But first, a few amazing and timely Brokeback Mountain jokes:

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‘Falling Awake’ Review For FilmCritic.com

It was a bold choice of writer/director Agustin to create an entire movie just by using a Final Draft template, but it really pays off in the new drama Falling Awake.

In this template, a young [musician] named [Jay] living on the hard streets of the [Bronx] tries to balance his love for [music] and the cold hard realities of life in the ‘hood. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman named [Alessandra], will he choose his relationship, or be drawn further into a life of [crime]?

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‘The Shock Doctrine’ Review For FilmCritic.com

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from every single writing class I took in college, it’s the importance of a good thesis statement. Putting the thrust, the motive, the idea of your piece right up at the top not only serves as a focal point for you, the writer, it also helps the reader understand what point you’re trying to get across in your work, and adequately judge whether you were successful in doing so. Along the way, you’ll also need points to either back up or refute your statement, citing specific examples. All that may seem obvious, but some filmmakers could learn a lot from a couple of remedial non-fiction writing classes.

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’7 Days’ Review For FilmCritic.com

Fun fact about film: if you take Saw and remake it in québécois, it’s still Saw… Even if it’s released in an art house instead of the local cineplex.

Liberally lifting tropes from the aforementioned torture porn series (and its green/grey color palate), as well as Antichrist, The Lovely Bones, and even Silence of the Lambs, Daniel Grou’s revenge drama doesn’t have an original bone in its body. However, with steady direction, strong central performances, and a script that keeps its dialogue light, it may feel like a million movies stuck in a blender, but at least its palatable.

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‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee’ Review For FilmCritic.com

If there was an Oscar for “Most Cathartic Fingerbang By Jesus,” The Private Lives of Pippa Lee would have it locked down. Get past that, and the blatant general Oscar… Er… Baiting… By the rest of the cast, and you’ll find one of the Fall’s more engaging surprises.

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