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Dir: Shawn Levy. US. 2002. 87 mins.The appeal of rising teen stars Frankie Muniz and Amanda Bynes, coupled with some broad comedy and a parent-friendly moral message, have already been enough to give Big Fat Liar a good start at the US box office, taking $13.5m from 2
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Dir/scr: Nicolas Pereda. Mexico. 2012. 103minsBound to be admired by some and reviled by others, Nicolas Peredas ambitious - some may say even pretentious - filmmaking approach of fixed camera set-ups, hyper-realistic dialogues and broken narrative may get him support from many film critics and art house bookers but for non-specialied audiences his film will be a hard nut to crack.Shades of other young Mexican directors such as Reygadas, Embke, Escalante and others creep in here and there.Using a schematic plot if that is what the films backbone is supposed to be a subliminal sense of humour that doesnt always work and actors trained by Pereda for minimal response, The Great
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