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(Scott Frank, USA 2007) “A guy with brain damage, his blind roommate and a bank ripe for robbery. Doesn't sound like much. But wait till you see the spellbinding work that Scott Frank makes of it. If you don't know Frank, he's the screenwriter who crafted two of the best-ever adaptations of Elmore Leonard novels, Out of Sight and Get Shorty. Now, in a knockout directing debut, Frank cooks up his own mischief. The web he spins will pull you in. Guaranteed. Jeff Daniels as the blind man with a sharp wit that doesn't allow for coddling and near matching his triumph in The Squid and the Whale, is exceptional. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, so good in Mysterious Skin and Brick, digs deep into a character who can't even know himself. This is acting of the highest order, putting Gordon-Levitt, 26, up there with the best of his generation.”--Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. With Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher. 99 min.

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(Christopher Dylan Quinn, USA 2006) God Grew Tired of Us, like many documentaries, is a study of the resilience of human nature and our ability to overcome enormous obstacles in the face of adversity. Specifically, that resilience is showcased through the story of three of Sudan's "Lost Boys," and their struggles to escape Sudan and build a new life in America. The film opens with vivid visuals of the Sudanese civil war, which began in the mid 1980s and has left millions dead. Twenty-five thousand pre-teen male orphans created by the atrocities, The Lost Boys as they came to be known, were forced to flee their homes and trek barefoot across the desert in search of safety. They fled to Ethiopia at first and were allowed to stay until government turmoil there forced them out. They set off to Kenya, where many are still located today. A select few, among them John Bul Dau, Panther Bior, and Daniel Pach,, were allowed to settle in the United States.God Grew Tired of Us, which is lent plenty of glossy star power by narrator Nicole Kidman and executive producer Brad Pitt, follows these three of the less than 4000 Lost Boys who made it to America as they adjust to western culture. If nothing else, this doc, which one the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at last year's Sundance Film Festival, feels like a story that needs to be told; an engine to possibly drive change in the Sudan. At the very least, it's a powerful film.”—Joey Chase, Premiere. 89 min. (G)

Revolver

Revolver is a Guy Ritchie movie in the same vein as his other crime movies, Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Like those, characters and a convoluted story make Revolver a pleasure to watch -- getting you hooked early on, and stringing you along for the ride. Unlike Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, however, Revolver is less violent, more complex and has been accused of being pretentious -- which in my opinion, is critique from the small-minded.

Revolver follows Jake Green (Jason Statham), as he is released from prison, where he served seven years in a requested solitary confinement, sandwiched between cells occupied by two conmen. The men communicated on the topics of confidence tricks and chess moves, by writing cryptic notes to each other in books passed between the cells. Green picks on those tricks, and spends five of his years in solitary confinement, being schooled by his neighbours on the strategy to win every game, dubbed "the Formula." Green's two neighbours, meanwhile, learn everything about him, and when they leave prison, they move in on Green's life on the outside, and clean him out of what little wealth he had acquired. Green discovers this two years after he leaves prison, but takes everything in stride, as he leverages "the Formula" to make riches by gambling.

Green eventually goes after casino crime boss, Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta), who was the cause of Green ending up in prison. The stakes in the game he plays with Macha however, quickly grows, as Macha calls a hit on Green. With his life at stake, Green is given no choice, but to take the protection offer of Zach (Vincent Pastore) and Avi (André Benjamin) -- who ask in return, nothing more than Green's total obedience and all his money. It is in this relationship, that Green discovers the game that is much larger than himself -- and eventually learns to not only to overcome the enemy within himself, but in so doing, learn how to truly win. This is where the story becomes quite esoteric -- almost spiritual.

The story will be confusing, and trying to piece it together on a single viewing may be asking too much. That being said, there is quite a lot invested in characters of the film to make it an easy film on the brain. It is entertaining because of the characters, not just the deep story -- and there really are some wacky characters in the film. You could almost tell another story with some of them. The cinematography is also easy on the eye -- if you've seen Ritchie's previous films, you know he's a competent director. Somewhere in them middle of the movie, he injects some stylized animation for a little trip. It's weird, but it works. It's a great movie, and if you enjoyed Ritchie's previous films, you'll probably dig this one.