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This feed is subject to our terms of use: http://www.epinions.com/help/rss_terms http://www.epinions.com/user-d_fienberg Recent reviews written by member d_fienberg en-us 121 37 http://www.epinions.com/ http://img.epinions.com/images/epi_images/logos/epinions_121.gif http://www.epinions.com/content_162379042436?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - If you don't already know who lives in a pineapple under the sea, chances are that you do not fit into any of the occasionally overlapping sociological groups: Children, parents, grandparents, college students, unemployed twentysomethings, stoners,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~162379042436 Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:57:28 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_162379042436?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_161485328004?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - This may not be a long review [Author's Note: It turned out plenty long], which pains me to say as a man for whom prolixity is as second nature as breathing. However, even as a semi-retired film critic (and a semi-functional television critic), I look... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~161485328004 Fri, 12 Nov 2004 16:46:29 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_161485328004?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_146196631172?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Was it Aesop who once taught us that with great power comes great responsibility? Nah. Perhaps it was a green muppet down in Dagobah. That sounds like something Yoda might say. I guess not. Was it my fortune cookie at Lucky Panda last week? Seems... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~146196631172 Sat, 3 Jul 2004 14:57:37 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_146196631172?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_144433188484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - [This review spends extensive time discussing the thematic failures of The Terminal, things that will be more useful for people to have seen the movie already. For people who have yet to see the movie, there is ample discussion of performance and... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~144433188484 Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:07:38 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_144433188484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_142677937796?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - As of Saturday, June 5, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban seems almost certain to shatter the first-weekend box-office record set by Spider-Man This goes to show what I've been saying all along: Kids love Alfonso Cuaron. Goodbye... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~142677937796 Sat, 5 Jun 2004 16:43:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_142677937796?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_139525066372?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Dracula, Frankenstein and the Wolfman are three of the most venerable characters in the history of cinema (and the first two are literary superstars as well). Stephen Sommers, the hack roller-coaster auteur behind the two Mummy films knows that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~139525066372 Sun, 9 May 2004 13:50:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_139525066372?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_138533965444?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Mean Girls is a Spike Lee-style empowerment movie aimed at teenage girls. Granted that Spike Lee hardly invented the theme, but how many of Spike's joints have been built around this basic thesis: Black people need to stop putting themselves... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~138533965444 Sat, 1 May 2004 15:20:41 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_138533965444?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_137840856708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - In my free time, such as it is, I'm slowly working my way through the single season of the short-lived NBC comedy Freaks and Geeks. It's arduous going because, as much as I love the show, I frequently have to take long pauses to step away from the... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~137840856708 Sat, 24 Apr 2004 15:41:34 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_137840856708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_123211976324?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - [This is a long one, even by my standards. Scan as you see fit. Just don't complain to me that it's too long, 'cuz I told you so.] Be warned: Cold Mountain may well be this winter's version of Gangs of New York. Ooops. Just turned a... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~123211976324 Sat, 27 Dec 2003 16:02:23 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_123211976324?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_123050888836?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - The statute of limitation on using Face/Off to defend John Woo has finally come to an end. I just want to make that entirely clear. The conversations go like this: Film Snob A doesn't want to see a new John Woo film and declares, "Since he... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~123050888836 Thu, 25 Dec 2003 22:52:55 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_123050888836?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_122969689732?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Back in the day, movie stars used to occasionally be mysterious. Back before the paparazzi and Internet journalism and People magazine, there were aspects of ambiguity to our favorite matinee idols. Today, the mystery is gone. Movies starring Tom... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~122969689732 Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:53:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_122969689732?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_122642468484?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - From his 1978 feature documentary debut The Gates of Heaven through A Brief History of Time, Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control and the recent Dr. Death, filmmaker Errol Morris has concentrated on obsessive eccentrics. Whether,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~122642468484 Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:59:35 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_122642468484?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_122456280708?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - When is a house not just a home? When it’s a metaphor, duh. When it represents your only tenuous hold on normalcy and your only tangible link to your family. When it represents a return to a stability and dignity that you have long since... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~122456280708 Sat, 20 Dec 2003 04:10:14 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_122456280708?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_122229722756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - There's the funny fact people like to mention about the television series M*A*S*H*: They note that the Korean War only lasted three years, but that M*A*S*H* lasted for 11 years. Fortunately, people were mostly enjoying the show so much that... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~122229722756 Thu, 18 Dec 2003 01:59:03 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_122229722756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_121765727876?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - First off, who was the moron in the Lions Gate marketing department who couldn't come up with a better tagline than: The Best-Selling Novel Comes Magically to Life! That's the kind of thing that you really should wait for some hack critic like Earl... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~121765727876 Sat, 13 Dec 2003 17:41:45 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_121765727876?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_121515708036?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - People pick on the ending of Tim Burton's 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes. They talk about how it makes no sense and how it betrays the spirit of the movie and the spirit of the series. They talk about how it feels uncertain and tacked on, as if... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~121515708036 Thu, 11 Dec 2003 02:54:58 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_121515708036?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_121246682756?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Don't you hate it when a marketing department has no idea of how to promote a complicated film and they succeed in making a really good movie look really awful? If people go to see In America (and I hope they will), it will be despite the best... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~121246682756 Tue, 9 Dec 2003 00:12:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_121246682756?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_121112661636?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Actually, there is a level on which Richard Curtis's feature directing debut is quite awful. It's that superficial level of cinema where the little things play -- little things like direction, photography, pacing, character development, editing and often... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~121112661636 Sun, 7 Dec 2003 19:16:16 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_121112661636?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_121003413124?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Ed Zwick's The Last Samurai arrives in theatres with a professional serviceability that should never be confused with inspiration. The film is smart without ever being intelligent, pretty without ever being artistic and exciting without ever being... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~121003413124 Sat, 6 Dec 2003 16:08:02 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_121003413124?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_117981744772?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Credit the Wachowski brothers for one thing: While any other director would have felt the responsibility to end one of the most [financially] successful trilogies in cinema with an escalating bang, the Wachowskis were confident enough to go out with a mew... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~117981744772 Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:44:53 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_117981744772?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_117410074244?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - A personal anecdote... feel free to skip ahead. In the fall of 1997, probably October of my junior year at the University of Pennsylvania, the Penn student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, held its annual Marquez Conference, an annual event w... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~117410074244 Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:30:00 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_117410074244?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_116827786884?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - The past 15 years have seen an interesting evolution for Jane Campion, who has gone from being a director of intelligent, challenging good films (Sweetie, An Angel at My Table) to being a director of intelligent, challenging really bad films... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~116827786884 Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:30:24 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_116827786884?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115317575300?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - It's only sortta an insult to venture the suggestion that Intolerable Cruelty may possibly be the worst movie the Coen Brothers have ever made. After all, working in tandem, Joel and Ethan have had a fairly remarkable track record of making smart,... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115317575300 Mon, 13 Oct 2003 01:26:04 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115317575300?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_115167825540?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - The first part of Quentin Tarantino's long gestating Kill Bill is blandly titled Vol. 1, but that's the least distinct thing about this delirious exercise in intellectual single-mindedness and creative fertility. While a more appropriate tit... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~115167825540 Sat, 11 Oct 2003 04:29:01 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_115167825540?linkin_id=8003929 http://www.epinions.com/content_114982620804?linkin_id=8003929 rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author d_fienberg - Clint Eastwood's new film Mystic River is not a whodunit. As I walked out of the theatre, I heard a twentysomething guy boasting to his girlfriend that he'd figured out the ending way in advice and I kinda wanted to whack him (in an "open hand s... http://www.epinions.com/content/submit.html/comment_~114982620804 Thu, 9 Oct 2003 02:12:43 GMT http://www.epinions.com/content_114982620804?linkin_id=8003929