Culturekiosque Cinema Reviews

Our editors' eclectic take on noteworthy cinema.

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Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: An Exile's Cartoon of Iran is France's Oscar Nominee

Satrapi's Oscar-nominated autobiographical film cannot help but be a political gesture in the current climate of tensions between Iran and the West--and France has clearly made a gesture as well in sending a film knocking Islam to the Academy Awards.

24 Feb 2008

Atonement: Knightly, McAvoy, Redgrave, Ronan Enchant in Oscar-worthy Adaptation

The moral's a little cheesy, but everything else in this film is a pitch-perfect re-creation of McEwan's novel.

1 Feb 2008

Charlie Wilson's War: Oscar Bait Movie Review

No country for old history, America may remember 9/11, but Americans seem to have forgotten all the things that led up to it--like Charlie Wilson's War. From Afghanistan to Washington, this embarassingly bad Oscar-bait sends Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts on an alcoholic, light-hearted romp that will thrill amnesiac audiences who learn their history from Hollywood movies and can't connect the dots. Forget this movie.

22 Jan 2008