AltWeeklies Wire
Game Theories
Mongolian Ping Pong is technically a contemporary tale, but it transpires on the border of tradition and modernity--which turns out to be the ideal location for some gentle magic.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Mongolian Ping Pong, Ning Hao
Boys Will Do Boys
Clerks II is equally self-centered as the first, even if Smith has moved on in several significant ways.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Clerks II, Kevin Smith
Sound the Repeat
We've seen American soldiers in Iraq up close many times before, and The War Tapes' night-vision-goggles view of the locals remains as fuzzy as ever.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Deborah Scranton, The War Tapes
Nautical by Nature
All Machado's film lacks is a story that's even half as compelling as the rest of it.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lower City, Sergio Machado
Hot and Bothersome
Clark still doesn't trust his charismatic young discoveries to tell their own stories, which have to be better than the trashy fables he constructs for them.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Larry Clark, Wassup Rockers
Istanbul and Constantinople
This film is lively and meticulously constructed.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Product Runway
Prada is pretty much your standard recombinant chick flick.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
On Thin Icing
This ensemble piece makes the least of a decent cast of Amerindie and TV veterans and fully embraces trivialization.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-26-2006 |
Reviews
What Are Words For?
This film is so frenzied that it takes a while to comprehend that just about everyone in it is completely misguided.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Patrick Creadon, Wordplay
Tortured Artistry
This is a powerful statement of outrage -- visceral, high-pitched, and enveloping.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-26-2006 |
Reviews
Elvis Is In the Building
The King attempts to sell a contrived premise through rigorous underplaying.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Marsh, The King
Realistic Sucking Action
"Don't be afraid of cliches," a character is advised by a soap-opera producer, and the script takes that advice.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Cedric Klapisch, Russian Dolls
Once Upon a Tile
Sadler achieves a delicacy that seems almost Asian, framing carefully, lighting beautifully, and moving the narrative forward with gentle nudges rather than the shoves more common in American cinema.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Doug Sadler, Swimmers
Junk/Culture
Clean relies more on texture, mood, and allusiveness than narrative propulsion.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Olivier Assayas, Clean
Pol Vault
The movie, for all its gleeful violence, also packs a social conscience.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: District B13, Pierre Morel
