In the Brandon Fibbs Book of Movieisms it is stated: “A bad film is not the worst kind of film. A bad film is simply bad. It does not aspire to be anything better. But a film with potential to be great that squanders its promise by either action or inaction is a far more [...]

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“One of these things is not like the other,” Big Bird used to croon on Sesame Street. “One of these things just doesn’t belong.” It is fairly obvious that Big Bird was playfully commenting on the fact that Roman Polanski’s The Ghost Writer is far too good a film for its February release date, a [...]

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An Education, thematically complex, elegantly fashioned and breathtakingly acted, is a poignant coming-of-age story for both a character and a country, essentially a soap opera made vibrantly electric. But unhappily, it is a very good film that stumbles in the home stretch and just misses out on being a great film.

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