Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  A Simple Curve

  Aubrey Nealon

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  An age-old Canadian dilemma gets an airing in this slight but engaging CanFilm, which is Yank pragmatism vs. Canuck obstinacy. The latter c...

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  Firewall

  Richard Loncraine

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  If you must have a formulaic "daddy saves kidnapped family" film, this is a little bit better than most. But not by much. Harrison Ford pla...

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  Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

  Michael Winterbottom

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Tristram Shandy's reputation is, sad to say, a tad inflated. Much has been made of the film's inventiveness in "adapting" the "un-filmable"...

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  Stay

  Marc Forster

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  I swear I just saw this thing in the form of a Canadian disappointment called Lucid, another film that reneges on actual narrative closure...

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  Zathura

  Jon Favreau

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  There's considerable craft invested in Zathura, but the finished product is so by the numbers that it's an investment largely wasted. Based...

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  Ghostbusters

  Ivan Reitman

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Ghostbusters is the most bizarre film ever to become the year's biggest hit. It resurrects the long-dormant ghost comedy genre of the '40s,...

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  Why We Fight

  Eugene Jarecki

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 was hobbled by stridency, sloppiness and an inability to see the forest for the trees: he became so obsesse...

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  Flightplan

  Robert Schwentke

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

  There was promise to this film about a kidnapping on an airplane, but though it's immaculate in its professionalism, it's about as ambitiou...