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No Child's Behind Leftnew
A few real-world locations aren't enough to prevent The History Boys from feeling largely artificial.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nicholas Hytner, The History Boys
Once Upon a Time in the Junglenew
Like Braveheart, Apocalypto is a fantasia on historical themes, not a work of history.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson
Jungle 2 Junglenew
Hollywood’s jungle adventure movies really ought to have become smarter by now.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick
Candy's Too Dandy
It takes more than dirty hair and outbursts of blubbering to evoke the junkie life.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: candy, Neil Armfield
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
The Nativity Story should have been left in the dark.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
A Weak Vintagenew
If A Good Year demonstrates that director Scott loves French wine, film, and women, it also shows that -- cinematically, at least -- he doesn't know what to do about it.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, A Good Year
Heaven Harm Usnew
An appalling but essential film.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Amy Berg, Deliver Us From Evil
Where's the Fire?
Catch a Fire relies heavily on Bob Marley tunes and South African “freedom songs” to cover its lack of righteous passion.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Catch a Fire, Phillip Noyce
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
The essence of La Moustache is its inexplicability.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Emmanuel Carrére, La Moustache
Link Globally
Babel sacrifices its atmosphere in a quest to tabulate human misunderstanding and score obvious political points.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel
Wedding Crushersnew
More well-meaning than well-made, writer-director Ali Selim's Sweet Land is a modestly engaging bit of Americana.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ali Selim, Sweet Land
Play Deadnew
This movie simulates an assassination with impressive verisimilitude but misses an essential quality of Americans’ relationship with their president: its sheer absurdity.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Mommie Drearestnew
Running With Scissors proceeds as a series of skits, way too cool and ironic to be disturbing, no matter how aberrant the latest development.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running With Scissors, Ryan Murphy
Stray Heirsnew
Tideland is like a Wyeth painting...on smack.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry Gilliam, Tideland
Tin Soldiers and Bush Coming
Crisp, lively, but unsurprising.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
