Review: The Shipping News
FILM CRITIC If one person has told me to read The Shipping News, half a dozen have. One friend actually pressed a copy of E. Annie Proulx's novel ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 12/25/01
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An Outsider Finds His Future by Facing His Past
The NY Times review of The Shipping News, a Lasse Hallström, Andrew Mondshein film starring Kevin Spacey and Julianne Moore. ...
The New York Times - Stephen Holden - 12/25/01
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Review: Shipping News, The
It could be argued that the most difficult screenplays to write are adaptations of novels. The task becomes doubly challenging when the source ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Review: THE SHIPPING NEWS
No European filmmaker of the past 20 years has adapted to Hollywood more successfully than Swedish director Lasse Hallstr m, whose international ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Editorial Review
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'News' is good for Spacey / Whimsical characters, beautifully made film
It's hardly possible to overstate what a welcome change of pace "The Shipping News" is for admirers of Kevin Spacey. None of Spacey's trademark ...
San Francisco Chronicle - Bob Graham - 12/25/01
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Review: SHIPPING NEWS, THE
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx, this drama charts one man's gradual awakening to the world's rich possibilities. ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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It's barely see-worthy
The Shipping News, like The Remains Of The Day, is the sort of film that divides an audience into readers or watchers. ...
Canoe.ca - LIZ BRAUN - 12/24/01
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BBC - Films - review - The Shipping News
Kevin Spacey finds bleak landscapes and himself in Newfoundland, in Lasse Hallström's solid but bland adaptation of the E Annie Proulx novel. ...
BBC - Nev Pierce - 02/28/02
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Review: The Shipping News
Some novels need to be left alone. Hear that, Hollywood? Annie Proulx's 1993 Pulitzer Prize winner uses language as bait. ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Great news from Spacey
When A man's heart and spirit have been battered, it takes an epiphany or two and an incredible community to rescue him. ...
Canoe.ca - LOUIS B. HOBSON - 12/24/01
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Review: The Shipping News
A couple of weeks ago, I had the distinct pleasure of attending a screening of one of director Lasse Hallstr m's most energetic and entertaining ...
Film Threat - Michæl Dequina - 01/11/02
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Review: The Shipping News (2001)
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that adapting books to film is a challenging task that more often than not fails to recapture the ...
TheMovieBoy.com - Dustin Putman - 12/26/01
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Review: The Shipping News
Based on E. Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, The Shipping News , as a film, does an excellent job of presenting the ...
Kinnopio.com - Ed Malinowski
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JoBlo's movie review of The Shipping News: Kevin Spacey, Julianne Moore, Judi Dench
What do you get when you take Oscar winning actors Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench, Oscar-nominated actors Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett, ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian - 12/18/01
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Review: The Shipping News (2001)
What has happened to Kevin Spacey? Just a couple of years ago he was an actor at the peak of his craft, with a knack for choosing edgy projects. ...
CultureVulture.net - Scott Von Doviak - 12/24/01
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Review: The Shipping News
Kevin Spacey and Julianne More in The Shipping News. Why do I get the feeling (of late) that Kevin Spacey is always foraging for an Oscar? ...
Palo Alto Online - Jeanne Aufmuth
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THE SHIPPING NEWS Film Review
Twice previously Miramax Films and director Lasse Hallstrom have gone to the literary well in an attempt to secure a Best Picture Oscar, ...
Boxoffice Online - Wade Major
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Review: The Shipping News
Director Lasse Hallstrom's last two films, "The Cider House Rules" and "Chocolat," were glossy, pretty-looking pictures about gentle people with ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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Review: The Shipping News
It's interesting to see Kevin Spacey play against type. The actor, one of the greatest of our generation, is always -- always -- cast as cynically ...
FilmBlather.com - Eugene Novikov
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Review: The Shipping News
Kevin Spacey is the Spock of serious actors. He's dependable, methodical, passionless, a huge fan of saying everything by saying nothing at all. ...
FilmCritic.com - Joshua Tyler
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Review: The Shipping News
Those who warm to classy Hollywood adaptations will find much to admire and enjoy, particularly in the performances. ...
Empire Online - Alan Morrison
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'Shipping' rides a muted current
The Boston Globe - Jay Carr - 12/25/01
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Review: Shipping News, The (2001)
SHIPPING NEWS, THE (director/writer: Lasse Hallstrom; screenwriters: Robert Nelson Jacobs, based on the novel by E. Annie Proulx; cinematographer: ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Dennis Schwartz - 03/14/02
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Review: Shipping News, The (2001)
In one of the more showy casting choices of the year, young triplets Alyssa, Kaitlyn, and Lauren Gainer all portray the same character of the ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - John Sylva - 08/19/02
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Review: Shipping News, The (2001)
One night after sleeping with a sleaze, a pussy-whipped man believes himself to be in love with the woman. Nine months later, they are married, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - JoBlo - 12/21/01
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