Review: State And Main
David Mamet has a playful side that's sometimes overlooked, since his plays often favor lowlifes and con men. He delights in using dialogue to ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 12/22/00
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Review: State and Main
State and Main offers prolific playwright/filmmaker David Mamet his latest chance to re-invent himself. Mamet, who is perhaps best known for his ...
Reelviews - James Berardinelli
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Movie Folk, It Turns Out, Are Subject to Venality
The NY Times review of State and Main, a David Mamet film starring Alec Baldwin and Charles Durning. State and Main movie trailer, showtimes, ...
The New York Times - Stephen Holden - 12/22/00
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Mamet's stinging satire takes aim at Hollywood
Movies about making movies are a specific genre in American cinema. Satires are an even more specialized group. David Mamet's new State And Main ...
Canoe.ca - BRUCE KIRKLAND - 12/22/00
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Mamet turns cameras on Hollywood
In his latest satire State and Main, David Mamet simultaneously skewers Hollywood and small-town America. In both real and reel life, ...
Canoe.ca - LOUIS B. HOBSON - 01/12/01
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Review: State and Main
You may want to revisit this profanely hilarious Hollywood satire from writer-director David Mamet (The Winslow Boy) just to catch the zingers the ...
Rolling Stone - Editorial Review
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Norman Rockwell Country
It's a very average town. Norman Rockwell country. White picket fences. Nicely trimmed lawns. You can see the town priest, the town mailman, ...
CultureDose.net - Jeremiah Kipp
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Review: STATE AND MAIN
This witty, low-key comedy about what happens when a Hollywood production team descends on the sleepy town of Waterford, VT, finds David Mamet in ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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BBC - Films - review - State and Main
David Mamet's latest ensemble piece is unusually upbeat. "Only two animals were harmed in the making of this motion picture", runs a caption at ...
BBC - Neil Smith - 02/13/01
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Flak Magazine: Review of State and Main, 01.04.01
With credits that include such popular films as Wag the Dog , The Untouchables and The Spanish Prisoner , as well as beloved plays like "American ...
Flak Magazine - Eric Wittmershaus
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Review: State and Main
Julia Stiles, William H. Macy and Linda Kimbrough in State and Main. David Mamet turns his talent for writing cadenced dialogue and clever plots ...
Palo Alto Online - Susan Tavernetti
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Review: State & Main
Movies that make fun of the movie-making process are not particularly rare, but ones that are funny without being farcical are as precious as ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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Review: State and Main
In order to see one of 2000 s real treasures, most of you are going to have to wait until January of 2001, when the masterful State and Main comes ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: State and Main
"Go you Huskies!" Would I be too predictable if I said that David Mamet is my favorite screenwriter? I find it impossible to actively dislike a ...
FilmBlather.com - Eugene Novikov
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Review: State And Main
Writer/director/playwright David Mamet is known for a lot of things. Generally, comedy is not one of them. His new send-up of Hollywood and ...
Film Threat - Ron Wells - 12/18/00
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JoBlo's movie review of State And Main: Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon
I enjoy watching movies that deal with Hollywood and its behind the scenes goings-on, and this one was no different. It certainly didn't blow me ...
JoBlo's Movie Emporium - Berge Garabedian - 08/27/00
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Review: State and Main
David Mamet is one of those auteurs who's stuff is always new and different while always being the same. What's the same is the tone, ...
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STATE AND MAIN Film Review
Small-town America and big-time Hollywood moviemaking are gently mocked in David Mamet's affectionate satire about what happens when a movie crew ...
Boxoffice Online - Shlomo Schwartzberg
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Review: State And Main
David Mamet's filmmaking comedy may not be entirely original, but it's so shamelessly entertaining that it wins you over anyway. ...
Film Threat - Rich Cline
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Review: State And Main
Terrifically funny and smart, with the entire ensemble firing on all thrusters. More evidence that Hoffman has awesome range, that Macy is a ...
Empire Online - Angie Errigo
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STATE AND MAIN Film Review
Boxoffice Online - Editorial Review
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Review: State and Main (2000)
STATE AND MAIN *** 1/2 . Written and directed by David Mamet. Photography, Oliver Stapleton. Editing, Barbar Tulliver. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - edwin jahiel - 01/21/01
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Review: State and Main (2000)
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Rebecca Pidgeon, Alec Baldwin, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Paymer, Julia Stiles, Clark Gregg. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Scott Renshaw - 12/31/00
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Review: State and Main (2000)
Films about filmmaking always seem to play well with critics, and State and Main isn t likely to be any different (for some reason, most critics ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Jon Popick
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Review: State and Main (2000)
David Mamet originally came to the public's attention by writing stories of hucksters and con men and corporate crime. He wrote stories like his ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Mark R Leeper - 01/16/01
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