Elle Fanning in Daniel Barnz’s Phoebe in Wonderland 
Not that anyone was asking, but five days into Sundance, Jeffrey Wells pulled a Walter Cronkite and declared the festival “over.” It’s his considered opinion that Sundance always ends 5 1/2 days after it starts. “The voltage turns down,” he yawns, “there are fewer people on Main Street, all the presumably hot [...]

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Ruh-roh 
As Cloverfield begins with a distant, rhythmic booming sound, a title informs us that we’re about to see footage taken from a camera recovered near the area “formerly known as Central Park.” One wonders what happened to the park and, more importantly, the city around it. Since this is a monster movie, it surely can’t [...]

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