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movieblog.ugo.com - 10/7/2008
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Changeling opens - as did George Romero’s Land of the Dead - with a semi-ironic use of an old-time Universal Studios logo, hearkening back to lionized days of old from a present-tense vantage point. The joke of it is that the sentiment, in both cases, is a pose. Like Romero with Land, Changeling ...
usatoday.com - 10/8/2008
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usatoday.com —
Sneering at a punk in Dirty Harry ,
"You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I
feel lucky?" Coolly uttering, "A man's got to know his limitations," as the villain blows up in Magnum Force . Lamenting fate as the aging gunman in Unforgiven , ...
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Clint Eastwood's a changeling himself
blog.spout.com - 10/3/2008
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Pasadena, 1928. Single mom Angelina Jolie is a
switchboard supervisor who glides around the telephone company on
rollerskates. It’s adorable, but her signature smoky eyes and blood red lips means she’s probably moonlighting as either a ...
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Changeling Review, NYFF 2008
cinematical.com - 10/3/2008
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cinematical.com —
Clint Eastwood's Changeling (which may or may not
be now known as The Exchange ), is a
riveting drama about a missing boy and the undying constancy of a mother's love. Angelina Jolie excels in a powerful performance as Christine Collins, whose ...
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Cannes Review: Changeling
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NYFF 46 (2008): Changeling
The House Next Door —
... director Clint Eastwood is as lost with where movies came from as with where they are—his film (based on the late-20s/early-30s era true story of Los Angeles-residing mother/martyr figure Christine Collins) is a rootless jumble of tones and plots, a desiccated nowhereland, like something waiting to be feasted on by Stephen King’s ravenous Langoliers. ________________________________________________ To read the rest of the review at UnderGroundOnline (UGO), click here.
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