See What Sticks: The Fall

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By Keith Uhlich Interesting that Tarsem Singh's The Fall is opening the same day as The Wachowski Brothers' Speed Racer adaptation. They're both the saturated-color ramblings of children (quite literally in The Fall's case), and all the more fascinating for all the surface infantalization. Neither can be said to "work" in any traditional sense, but for the willing, they cast a rather remarkable [link]

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Published 5/15/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (NATHANIEL R) at Film Experience Blog
... Keith Uhlich thinks it bears noting that it opened the same day as The Fall. Dennis Cozzalio defends Speed Racer and examines the entertaining critical fray. But I'm horrified to hear a plea for Days of Thunder (1990) in his mixology... one of the worst movies of its time as I recall. The only thing I can remember about it, other than my seething disgust, was the scene in which Nicole Kidman (who played a brain surgeon) shoved her patient (Tom Cruise) against the wall head-first so as to ...

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