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Be Kind, Rewind (2008) Movie Reviews
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cinemattraction (Brandon Fibbs)
The end of Be Kind Rewind is pure Frank Capra. It as pure and as beautiful and as timeless as anything you’ve ever seen. It celebrates the communal magic of movies not only in how Jerry and Mike’s cinematic entrepreneurship draws their on-the-ropes Ne...read the complete Be Kind, Rewind (2008) review at cinemattraction (Brandon Fibbs)
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Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
Gondry is back with another sublimely strange film, using an ingenious premise and a thoroughly unexpected style of moviemaking. It's a scruffy, likeable little comedy, even though it's not actually very funny or involving.
Mike (Def) is a...read the complete Be Kind, Rewind (2008) review at Shadows on the Wall (Rich Cline)
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Movies for Guys (Mack Guffin)
This movie is set in an impoverished neighborhood where two chuckleheads (Jack Black and Mos Def) work in a video store. The store can’t afford to upgrade to DVD, so the stock is still VHS. Jack Black becomes magnetized and accidentally erases every tap...read the complete Be Kind, Rewind (2008) review at Movies for Guys (Mack Guffin)
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Los Angeles Times (Carina Chocano)
After all, what Mike and Jerry are engaged in here is not piracy, it's more like karaoke -- imitation as the sincerest, and sometimes most painful, form of flattery....read the complete Be Kind, Rewind (2008) review at Los Angeles Times (Carina Chocano)
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One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
It doesn’t take much miscalculation to turn whimsy into stupidity, and Michel Gondry definitely crosses the line in “Be Kind Rewind,” a comedy that also has the misfortune of being culturally tone-deaf. One can see what the writer-director was aimin...read the complete Be Kind, Rewind (2008) review at One Guy's Opinion (Frank Swietek)
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