Southland Tales

...exit poll that judged the film "one of the worst movies ever made". Kelly had followed Donnie Darko with the egregious failure Southland Tales, a $17 million (GBP10 million) movie starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson that scraped just over...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING The Box In the new movie from Richard Kelly ("Donnie Darko,'' "Southland Tales''), James Marsden and Cameron Diaz, looking like a Pan-Am flight attendant, play a nice Virginia couple who...

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...only $13.2m in two weeks. Poor old Richard Kelly - the brilliant director of Donnie Darko has struggled with his two last movies. Southland Tales was widely derided as an unintelligible stoner tapestry of conspiracy theories, albeit...

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...as their exceedingly odd visitor who makes the offer, is Kelly's third film after the bona fide cult classic "Donnie Darko" and "Southland Tales," which was so resoundingly booed at its Cannes premiere that Kelly chopped out a half-hour -...

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Between "Donnie Darko," "Southland Tales" and now "The Box," Newport News native Richard Kelly is becoming the cinematic poet laureate of suburban Virginia, in all its drab monotony and sneaking sense that something's going on behind those...

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Review of "The Box" Between "Donnie Darko," "Southland Tales" and now "The Box," Newport News native Richard Kelly is becoming the cinematic poet laureate of suburban Virginia, in all its drab monotony and sneaking sense that something's...

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...depths even though they're never fully revealed. Director Kelly is still esteemed for his 2001 "Donnie Darko," despite the dismal "Southland Tales" that followed it in 2006. His oblique storytelling seems almost designed to leave a lot...

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...that criticism, particularly after the resounding failure of the endlessly imaginative but confusing Southland Tales. ``Southland Tales is an epic tapestry of a film that is about the greatest mystery of all time: How will the world...

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...was an intriguing foul ball, muddled and pretentious but showing signs of a strong talent in search of his voice. His second, "Southland Tales," was a disaster, an unintelligible heap of bombast that was distressing to watch, the way...

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...rewritten for the screen by Kelly. This is Kelly's third film. His first, "Donnie Darko" (2001), has become a cult classic. His second, "Southland Tales" (2006), was universally panned by critics although it, too, has a devoted, but small,...

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