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'The Promotion'
rafer.guzman@newsday.comPLOT: Two supermarket employees wage a comedic battle for a managerial post. (R) CAST: John C. Reilly, Seann William Scott, Jenna Fischer, Lili Taylor LENGTH: 85 minutes PLAYING AT: AMC Empire 25 and Angelika Film Center, Manhattan BOTTOM LINE: With...Tags: Assault, Manhattan (New York City), Crimes, Employees
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'The Promotion': Wise, Just Not That Funny
ORLANDO SENTINELCan a deadpan satire of working-class work life make it in a summer cinema of foul-mouthed Seth Rogen, an Indian-accented Mike Myers or Israeli-accented Adam Sandler, with Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart? No, I don't think so either. But "The Promotion,"...Tags: Political Candidates, Jason Bateman, Motor Racing, Elections, Minority Groups
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'The Promotion': Clever comedy is a job pretty well done
Chicago TribuneWeek after week movies come and go, and too many sound and look as if they were written by committee, or a robot, or one of the aliens in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Then there's screenwriter Steve Conrad. He's interesting. He...Tags: Indiana Jones, Nicolas Cage, Tribune Co., Gang Activity, Crimes
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'The Promotion' stars Seann William Scott, John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer
Tribune criticWeek after week movies come and go, and too many sound and look as if they were written by committee, or a robot, or one of the aliens in " Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." ("Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" is one...Tags: Nicolas Cage, Indiana Jones, Movies, Will Smith
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'Promotion' labors away, then falls down on job
Sun movie critic(C+) The new comedy The Promotion suggests that if American life is an extension of high school, laboring at a corporate supermarket is the equivalent of high-school detention. It's a funny insight undone by a scenario akin to a foul-mouthed after-...Tags: Movies
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Nick Flynn, well-traveled poet
Special to The TimesJuly 2, 2008 NEW YORK -- On his passport, Nick Flynn lists his profession as "poet," but there is nothing anemic or brooding about his appearance. On a recent afternoon in New York's West Village, he dismounted the bike he rides every day from...Tags: Fishing, Theater, Abusive Behavior, Books and Magazines, Film Festivals
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'Starting Out in the Evening'
jan.stuart@newsday.comAndrew Wagner knows the world of the Upper West Side Jewish intelligentsia from the inside. In the vivacious comedy "The Talent Given Us," he related the road trip of a New York City family with photo-realistic precision, its effect magnified by the...Tags: Upper West Side, Saul Bellow, Richard Nixon, Manhattan (New York City), New York
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'Starting Out' worth relishing
Sun Movie Critic(A) Starting Out in the Evening is a rapturous, ruefully funny flight of sympathetic imagination. Featuring the first movie role for Frank Langella that ranks with his best stage parts, it's a rare kind of American movie. It gets us arguing about all...Tags: New York, Brian Morton, Frank Langella, William Faulkner, Heart Disease
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Movie capsules
South Florida Sun-SentinelA summary of the movies playing Oct. 11 to Nov. 15, 2007 at the 22nd Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. Most tickets are $10 general admission; $5 for members and free for holders of FLIFF Fast Pass. Parties and special events are priced...Tags: Florida State Seminoles, Dance, William Holden, National Government, Public Holidays
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Melonie Diaz: This year's Queen of Sundance
Park City, Utah
MELONIE DIAZ is excited, anxious, overwhelmed, joyous, overstimulated and super-happy. "It's bananas," the 23-year-old actress proclaims, seeing the hundreds-strong mob lined up in the snow for the Sundance premiere of her first studio...Tags: Patti Smith, Michel Gondry, Kirsten Dunst, Utah, Catherine Keener
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Made in Maryland
Absolute Power (1997)
Clint Eastwood stars as the sensitive thief who can save the entire American political system from complete corruption. Too bad he wasn't around during the Reagan administration. Eastwood discovers presidential corruption during...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Andrew McCarthy, John Cusack, Alan Rickman, Morgan State University
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Slain Actress Foundation Honors Filmmakers
Zap2It.comThe Adrienne Shelly Foundation will honor the slain actress-director by helping other aspiring female filmmakers. A production grant will be offered in her name by the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women beginning in the spring,...Tags: Columbia University, Television, Keri Russell, Cinema Industry, New York University
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