AltWeeklies Wire
'Fred Claus': Ho-Ho-Humnew
Never once does this big spangly artificial tree of a movie look or smell natural.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Fred Claus
Reptile Dysfunctionnew
The ninja turtles are gloomier than usual in TMNT.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-23-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Munroe, TMNT
Thick as a Kubricknew
Malkovich is leaden as a con artist who impersonated 2001's director.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-23-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Cook, Color Me Kubrick
Well-Versednew
The only thing missing from this rich sampling of the Wilson aesthetic is a sustained inquiry into that aesthetic's limits.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
01-26-2007 |
Reviews
Whachoo Say?
A pleasant enough tour d'horizon of the f-word.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: fuck, Steve Anderson
Happy Hunting
If the film's various parts are more than gently used, the chassis still hums comfortably.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
09-29-2006 |
Reviews
Rest in Prius
What exactly are we mourning?
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
07-21-2006 |
Reviews
Turban Myth
Fundamentalism assumes many forms, even documentaries.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Not Subtle
The film's rhetorical excesses will make you long for the one quality that both the film and the former mayor lack: nuance.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Giuliani Time, Kevin Keating
Waif, Waif, Don’t Tell Me
The story wanders in unexpected directions, but mostly Somersault just wanders.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Cate Shortland, Somersault
Australian for Leer
Not since Crash has a movie been so ruthlessly espaliered around a single theme.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Look Both Ways, Sarah Watt
String Cheese
This comedy of manners has no keen fix on manners and no hunger for true human comedy.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Down and Pout
Lonesome Jim is so right in its particulars, so sure in its tone, that you can almost skate over the hollowness at its center.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim
The Decline of the Western
But no matter how well-played, a string of scenes without narrative justification is a string of scenes.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Don't Come Knocking, Wim Wenders
Closet Stretchers
Duck Season has found a niche you never knew existed: It's a coming-of-age movie in which no one is quite ready to come of age.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Fernando Eimbcke, Duck Season
