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Dan Zak

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Couples Retreat (2009) 10% EDIT “Why couldn't Couples Retreat have been lighthearted and zany throughout, instead of trying to push across a message about picket-fence monogamy?” – Washington Post Oct 16, 2009 Full Review Extract (2009) 62% EDIT “Extract may be the most disappointing American comedy of the decade, partly because it's jokeless and joyless but mostly because it squanders an all-star cast of superb comic talent.” – Washington Post Sep 3, 2009 Full Review Blood: The Last Vampire (2008) 23% EDIT “The peculiar, comic-book-like computer graphics -- artful at first -- finally overtake Blood and make it look like a video game instead of a graceful, graphic martial arts movie.” – Washington Post Jul 10, 2009 Full Review Moon (2009) 90% EDIT “Storywise, Moon fails to live up to the promise of its premise. There's plenty of atmosphere, but little gravity.” – Washington Post Jul 10, 2009 Full Review Unmistaken Child (2008) 81% EDIT “Adorable, moving, bewildering, sad and, ultimately, peaceful.” – Washington Post Jul 2, 2009 Full Review Public Enemies (2009) 68% EDIT “Public Enemies, despite packing thunderous rounds of ammunition, is a touch too remote.” – Washington Post Jul 1, 2009 Full Review O'Horten (2008) 90% EDIT “Depending on your patience for oddball mood pieces, you will either sleep through O' Horten or be oddly captivated. Either way, it'll be like dreaming.” – Washington Post Jun 19, 2009 Full Review The Song of Sparrows (2008) 98% EDIT “At times tedious but ultimately beguiling, Song of Sparrows morphs from a sly dramedy about running a household into a fable about two ways of life (urban and rural) that can't coexist.” – Washington Post Jun 12, 2009 Full Review Easy Virtue (2008) 52% EDIT “What might've been a scrumptious, chocolatey dessert of a movie -- a Noel Coward delite -- is instead a scoop of lemon ice, not filling, faintly sweet and mostly water.” – Washington Post Jun 5, 2009 Full Review Adoration (2008) 62% EDIT “Adoration is a delicate rumination on how innocence and truth evolve in the aftermath of catastrophe, as people stake emotional ownership in tragedy.” – Washington Post Jun 5, 2009 Full Review Rudo y Cursi (2008) 72% EDIT “This is not a sports movie. But for lovers of Luna and Bernal, especially Luna and Bernal together, Rudo y Cursi will be a quick, harmless, caffeinated booster shot until their next collaboration.” – Washington Post May 15, 2009 Full Review The Limits of Control (2009) 43% EDIT “Jarmusch has taken the idea of a caper, drained it of plot, action and suspense, and set it against an absurdist background, where every symbol, person and incident should convey meaning but doesn't.” – Washington Post May 8, 2009 Full Review Outrage (2009) 79% EDIT “A crisp, efficient, sometimes petty but often infuriating documentary about alleged gay politicians who actively campaign and vote against gay rights.” – Washington Post May 7, 2009 Full Review The Secret of the Grain (2007) 92% EDIT “A ponderous tragedy about put-upon manhood? A verite snoop into cultures that are sexually mingled but publicly uneasy? A pill to be swallowed in the name of serious filmgoing? Maybe all of these.” – Washington Post May 7, 2009 Full Review Sin nombre (2009) 88% EDIT “Sin Nombre is pure filmmaking: a great story told in beautiful images.” – Washington Post May 7, 2009 Full Review 12 (2007) 76% EDIT “The film transforms Rose's play into a ballet of sorts. The story is as much about movement as it is about words.” – Washington Post May 1, 2009 Full Review Obsessed (2009) 19% EDIT “As far as the crazy-stalker-chick genre goes, Obsessed isn't horrible. It's just intensely simple-minded.” – Washington Post Apr 27, 2009 Full Review Lymelife (2008) 63% EDIT “Lymelife, directed by first-timer Derick Martini and produced by Martin Scorsese, balances grimness and levity with relative success.” – Washington Post Apr 23, 2009 Full Review The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2008) 12% EDIT “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh seems to be missing an essential element of drama, of risk, underneath its glossy, golden sheen.” – Washington Post Apr 16, 2009 Full Review Royal Kill (2009) EDIT “Not a bad premise -- it's kind of like The Princess Diaries meets Kill Bill meets Terminator 2 -- but the movie doesn't make one right turn.” – Washington Post Apr 9, 2009 Full Review The Great Buck Howard (2008) 70% EDIT “Under the direction of, say, Alexander Payne or David O. Russell, Malkovich might have flourished in a deeper, darker, more madcap version of the film.” – Washington Post Mar 20, 2009 Full Review Sunshine Cleaning (2008) 74% EDIT “Sunshine Cleaning should have been a madcap comedy of the macabre, or a tangled yarn about the metaphorical biohazards of living life at the margins, but it shoots for the middle and ends up being just that: middling.” – Washington Post Mar 20, 2009 Full Review An American Affair (2009) 17% EDIT “An earnest, fictional coming-of-age story is squeezed from a bitter, true-life local tragedy. And it works.” – Washington Post Mar 13, 2009 Full Review Brothers at War (2009) 70% EDIT “A drama about sibling rivalry and reconciliation that just happens to be filmed under extremely dangerous circumstances.” – Washington Post Mar 13, 2009 Full Review Friday the 13th (2009) 26% EDIT “The movie knows it's a slasher flick made solely for commerce, it knows we know what it is, and yet it insists on feigning the song and dance.” – Washington Post Feb 12, 2009 Full Review
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