AltWeeklies Wire
Breaking Up and Down
The fourth and best film by second-generation Brooklyn boho Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale is partially autobiographical, and it seems as uncensored and intimate as entries from someone's diary.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-04-2005 |
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Evocation of Madness
An immaculately art-directed plunge into bewilderment, Stay begins with a disorienting car crash that recalls the opening of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blue.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2005 |
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Unreal World
This film about a journalist's investigation of two former song-and-joke partners would have been more convincing with actors who played both sides of their characters.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2005 |
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Character Deferences
Set in Minnesota's Iron Range as Anita Hill testifies against Clarence Thomas on TV, North Country is a new Warner Bros. movie in the spirit of the old. It's based on one woman miner's crusade to be treated with decency.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2005 |
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A Reporter in Search of a Novel
Given a lurid case, a reporter becomes a film-noir character, stalking dark alleys in search of light. This setup works even if the reporter is a squeaky-voiced gay narcissist who combines the mannerisms of the Deep South with those of the Manhattan intellectual.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2005 |
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The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
The horrific death of 14-year-old Emmett Till is not an untold story -- at least not as presented by Keith A. Beauchamp's vivid documentary.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-14-2005 |
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Solitary Refinement
Amid a glut of onscreen romances that contain between 90 and 99 percent schtick, Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown mercifully varies the boy-meets-girl formula. Yet Crowe's latest homage to Crowe is overstuffed and blunt.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-14-2005 |
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America the Abominable
Anyone who wants to feel better about this country can go see one of this week's cinematic strikes at the red, white, and blue, Good Night, and Good Luck, or Dear Wendy. Both are so uncompelling that they barely add a scratch to the United States' already-shredded reputation.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-07-2005 |
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Going Dark
Love Kraft could have been the band's undoing. Instead, it's a pretty good album.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
09-23-2005 |
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