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Nothing Matters
Despite indulging in such Errol Morris-y touches as convex lenses and distorted sound to convey Bruce's initial dislocation, Murray tells this story with empathy and grace.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-17-2006 |
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Tags: Rupert Murray, Unknown White Male
Hazy Shades
Winter Passing is enervated and underrealized.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-10-2006 |
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Tags: Adam Rapp, Winter Passing
Beach Slap
Affable, synthetic and 100 percent girly, this beach-blanket renovation of The Little Mermaid boasts a virtually unknown cast and a plot so flimsy that merely to recount it is to kill it.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: Aquamarine, Elizabeth Allen
Butt Seriously
Largely redundant, the only thing Lovett really adds to the post-Stonewall mythography is to remind us how attractive men's bodies actually were in the 70s, before the plague.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: Gay Sex in the 70s, Joseph Lovett
Courting Rituals
No one in front of or behind the camera in this film seems able to imagine a better outcome for a young black man from the projects than realizing those dreams of a Bentley and a Rolex and a shoe with his own name on it.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
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Banana Fritter
Despite a couple of good jokes, George's plot line is too blah for bigger kids and too complicated for the pre-K acolytes.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
02-10-2006 |
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Pardon Our French
The Pink Panther is a parlor game that should've stayed in Steve Martin's parlor.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
02-10-2006 |
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A History of Violins
A humane and humanizing look at the guts of the symphonic orchestra, this film is also a feast of sound.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
02-03-2006 |
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Life Isn't Beautiful
Does Fateless clear the bar already set by previous Holocaust accounts? Yes, but in a paradoxical way -- by pretending that the bar isn't there
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
02-03-2006 |
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Standard Spelling
In these post-Thatcher times, the closest thing the British theater has to a welfare program is the Harry Potter movies.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-18-2005 |
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Dying for Undying Fame
If the theme of Jarhead is killers wanting to kill, the theme of Paradise Now is killers wondering if they should kill.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-04-2005 |
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Violence Is Golden
Sam Mendes' bleakly funny, stunningly realized Jarhead brings us a world in which violence, far from erupting, remains eternally, almost unnaturally, constrained.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-04-2005 |
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Green Street Hooligans
It's understandable that Elijah Wood should want to atone for being a hobbit.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
10-14-2005 |
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Vegetable Matters
Lumpy and tuberish, the clay-on-wire creations of animator Nick Park sag with the weight of years. Yet who'd have guessed that clay could feel so light?
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
10-07-2005 |
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