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		<title>On A Serious Man</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2010/03/01/on-a-serious-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Serious Man
Reviewed by John David Ebert
Though I&#8217;ve never reviewed any of their movies on this site, the Coen brothers are among my favorite filmmakers. Their films are remarkably free from the kinds of flaws that plague the work of other directors, especially of the Hollywood type, for cliches, sentimentality and kitsch are rare occurrences [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Book of Eli</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2010/02/11/on-the-book-of-eli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Book of Eli: A Movie Review
By John David Ebert
On the surface, there&#8217;s nothing new about The Book of Eli. It has all the essential plot structures of the traditional Western: the loner who wanders into town from out of the waste land, where he encounters bad guys running the town who are a bunch of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2010/01/20/on-moon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moon: A Movie Review
by John David Ebert
Duncan Jones&#8217; Moon has the word &#8216;classic&#8217; written all over it. It is one of the best science fiction films in a long, long time, one that is faithful to the development of the genre and to the tradition of the battle against the Machine that was inaugurated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On District 9</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2010/01/14/on-district-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[District 9: A (Belated) Movie Review
By John David Ebert
I finally got around to seeing Neill Blomkamp&#8217;s District 9, which is, indeed, a better film than Avatar. The difference between the two films is instructive, for Blomkamp&#8217;s film succeeds because it inherits a cliched premise&#8211;an alien invasion of the earth&#8211;which it then proceeds to subvert by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Avatar</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2009/12/19/on-avatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 05:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Cameron&#8217;s Kitschy New Age Epic
By John David Ebert

I keep waiting for those &#8220;Wow!&#8221; experiences in film that I used to encounter routinely as a child growing up in the middle American suburbs of the 1980s. It seemed that every summer, I would go to the movies and walk away feeling that I had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Law Abiding Citizen</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2009/10/24/law-abiding-citizen-a-movie-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Lobell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or How to Review an Archetypal Movie, Again
By John Lobell
A while back, I did a review of Phantom of the Opera in which I took reviewers to task for not knowing what the movie was about. (See http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/the-phantom-of-the-opera/ )
As those who make movies move to explore archetypal themes, they are leaving the reviewers behind, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Surrogates</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2009/10/08/on-surrogates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surrogates: A Movie Review
By John David EbertÂ 
Jonathan Mostow, the director of Terminator 3 (actually a pretty good film) has given us his new film Surrogates, starring Bruce Willis, a sort of reworking of The Stepford Wives crossed with Minority Report.
The premise is a by now familiar one, for it reworks the theme of the avatar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On 9</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2009/10/06/on-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[9: A Movie Review
By John David Ebert
Just to get right to the point: 9 is a visionary masterpiece. It represents what I have termed &#8220;visionary film&#8221; perfectly, and moreover, it embodies and plays out the myth of the battle against the machine that I wrote about in my book Celluloid Heroes &#38; Mechanical Dragons four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Pandorum</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2009/10/04/on-pandorum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pandorum: A Movie Review
By John David Ebert 
Christian Alvart&#8217;s Pandorum aspires to the great science fiction tradition in cinema that began with 2001: A Space Odyssey and continues down through Alien and Sunshine. In the latter film, there is evident not only an increasing pessimism regarding technology and space exploration in general, but there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea</title>
		<link>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2009/08/15/on-ponyo-on-the-cliff-by-the-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cinemadiscourse.com/2009/08/15/on-ponyo-on-the-cliff-by-the-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John David Ebert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Miyazaki&#8217;s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea: A Movie Review
by John David Ebert
Nobody makes animated movies like Miyazaki. Disney is incapable of making a good film and nowadays relies for its credibility on distributing Pixar and Studio Ghibli movies as though to suggest that it had something to do with the wonderful creativity of [...]]]></description>
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