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What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Action Action Film African-American Ambition Appreciate Cheese Culture Diner Enjoyable Enough Film Food Inch Joke Laughs Makes More Motion Motion Picture Out Per Picture Pop Pop Culture Raise References Slides Soul Square Than Those Through Who Will

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'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. You might say that the movie walks it like it talks it; I'm not sure what Pootie would say.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Because Hey Laugh Like May Might Movie Notes Often Raw Satirical Say Slovenly Succeeds Sure Talks Walks Would You

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'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one of the finest movies ever made.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Carol Directed Ever Finest Graham Made Man Movies Quite Reed Simply Third Written

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Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks like a root-canal patient trying out a pleasant expression for his oral surgeon.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Drained Expression Face He His Jim Jim Carrey Like Looks Often Oral Out Patient Plays Pleasant Straight Surgeon Trying Vitality

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One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Human Nature,' 'Adaptation' and now 'Sunshine' - sound like titles from REM's 'Reckoning.'

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: About Adaptation Being Funniest His Human Human Nature John Like Nature Now Reckoning Scripts Sound Sunshine Things Titles Mr

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'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world of the theater as a staging device.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: About Comedy Device Drama Life Looks Lovable Love Theater Uses Va World

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Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Adaptation Air Big Big Part Director Feature Group Informed Life More Music Narrative Part Previous Score Screen Substantially Than Ms

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The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Better Directed Felt Film First Fully Gabriel Go Hughes Influence John Kelly Like Melodrama Movie Novel Richard Tries Version Written Mr

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It may be a bit early to make such judgments, but 'Battlefield Earth' may well turn out to be the worst movie of this century.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: Battlefield Bit Century Early Earth Judgments Make May Movie Out Turn Well Worst

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'Plan Nine From Outer Space' for a new generation, 'Battlefield Earth' is set in the year 3000, after the beings from the planet Psychlo have conquered our planet in only nine minutes.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: After Battlefield Beings Conquered Earth Generation Minutes New New Generation Nine Only Our Our Planet Outer Outer Space Plan Planet Set Space Year

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 6th, 1958

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