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It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Been Comedy Every Fun Joke Packed See Single Trailer Which

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No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down to a central nervous system - his focus fried away unnecessary calories.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Actor Away Burned Calories Career Central Determination Down Extent Focus Fried He Himself His Made Matt Movies Nervous Nervous System System Unnecessary

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In 'The Adjustment Bureau,' Damon shows movie-star concentration as David Norris, a politician whose world ambitions hit a pothole when his angry streak becomes public.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adjustment Ambition Angry Becomes Bureau Concentration David His Hit Politician Public Shows Streak Whose World

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Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is - a combination of world-weariness and exuberance, an instrument that he's mastered for specific comic shadings.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Combination Comic Exuberance He His Instrument Like Mastered Older Specific Than Voice Years

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Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Architect Emotional He Skills

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Who would ever have thought that Robert Ludlum would have become the father of modern action cinema?

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Action Become Cinema Ever Father Modern Robert Thought Who Would

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When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Behind Debut Director Does Emotionally Film Gears He Knows Man May Often Rich Shifts Wants Wonder You

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In his very first film, Mr. Gonzalez Inarritu makes the kind of journey some directors don't - or can't - travel in an entire career.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Career Directors Entire Entire Career Film First His Journey Kind Makes Some Travel Very Mr

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If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, and Popeye is unavailable because of contractual disputes, it's hard to do better than Johnny Depp.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Actor Because Better Chunk Depp Disputes Good Hard Himself His Johnny Johnny Depp Lead Movie Onscreen Requires Spend Talking Than Time

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Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid air that H. P. Lovecraft circulated in his fiction.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Air Ambience Comics Fiction Gothic His Mike Same

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 6th, 1958

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