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MOVIE REVIEWS: TALK TO ME

Don Cheadle's performance as real-life Washington D.C. disc jockey Petey Greene in Talk to Me, which is opening in limited release, is receiving the same wort of cheers from critics as his very different performance as a hotel operator in Hotel Rwanda did. "Picture by picture, he is showing us he can do just about anything," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. "Don Cheadle is an absolute gas," comments Jan Stuart in Newsday. "The man just keeps exploring the outer limits of his talent," says Glenn Whipp in the Los Angeles Daily News. "One of the year's most fully realized performances," cheers Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News. And Amy Biancolli in the Houston Chronicle applauds, "Watching a great actor wrap his hands around a juicy role is one of the enduring thrills of cinema -- and in Talk to Me, Don Cheadle grabs it and runs." The film itself is receiving raves aplenty, too. Claudia Puig in USA Today sums up: "Talk to Me speaks powerfully to audiences with its potent blend of extraordinary performances and engaging soundtrack." Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune remarks that the film "has a great subject and a great actor working in tandem." And A.O. Scott in the New York Times calls it "a movie that offers uplift without phoniness, history without undue didacticism and a fair number of funny, dirty jokes."

13/07/2007