A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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The Devil's Double (2011)

August 26, 2011

Since the phenomenal success of his directorial debut in 1994, New Zealander Lee Tamahori has been muddling his way through second-rate action and suspense films. Where Once Were Warriors, which told the story of a struggling urban Māori family, was gritty, realistic and rang solidly true, the films that have followed stink of a desperate reaching that could very well be mistaken for parody. In its fervent imitation of Scarface, Tamahori's latest film, The Devil's Double, is difficult to take seriously.

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