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Flight of Fancy

Glossy combat epic offers a sanitized version of World War I.

By Bill Gallo
Sep 21, 2006

Anyone who wants to start feeling good about war again — and hey, pilgrim, isn't it about time? — might do well to take in Flyboys. In this elaborate, computer-generated fantasy, the plucky volunteer pilots of the Lafayette Escadrille are once more cast as "knights of the sky," dashing young...
The Longest Yawn

Heavily padded football movie hits all the familiar notes.

By Bill Gallo
Sep 14, 2006

"The Rock" — formerly known as "Flex Kavana" and, a bit later, as "Rocky Maivia" — was a practicing actor long before he turned to movies and started taking down $12 million paychecks. The happily deluded throngs who used to watch him lay signature moves like "The People's Elbow" or...
Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

By Bill Gallo
Aug 24, 2006

If, at this remove, we can imagine Vienna in the late 1890s, we behold a great imperial capital in ferment. Gustav Mahler is not only reinventing the harmonic structure of serious music but he is getting his head seriously shrunk by Sigmund Freud. Arnold Schoenberg takes painting lessons from eroticist...
Rhinestone in the Rough

Woody Allen's second straight English excursion is a failed return to comedy.

By Bill Gallo
Jul 27, 2006

For 35 years, Woody Allen was a long shot to stray into the Bronx or Staten Island — much less the alien reaches of London, England. The creator of Manhattan has always been joined to his chosen borough like pastrami on rye — so when he ventured abroad last year...
Deep Doo-doo

A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are after your money again.

By Bill Gallo
Jun 22, 2006

About three-quarters of the way through Waist Deep, the hero of the piece — an indestructible ex-convict who calls himself O2 (2 Fast 2 Furious star Tyrese Gibson) — peers out through the swirling smoke and the bloody mayhem of an urban killing ground and experiences a revelation. "Somethin' ain't...

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