AltWeeklies Wire
Populist Mechanicsnew
The second screen adaptation of this all-American mega-fiction drowns in ponderous metaphors.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
09-20-2006 |
Reviews
About a Boinew
OutKast's Depression-era hip-hop musical has a loving respect for the old South.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
08-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Barber, Idlewild
Unembeddednew
The Iraq war finally gets its definitive documentary.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
08-02-2006 |
Reviews
The Dead Poolnew
The master of the nonsensical outdoes himself in a cock-and-bull bedtime story.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
07-19-2006 |
Reviews
Shohei Imamura, 1926–2006new
Shohei Imamura was an artiste among pulp mavens, a pop comic amid tragedians, a deep-dish cynic and folksy absurdist both.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
06-07-2006 |
Movies
Domestic Violencenew
Guess who's coming to dinner? Your boss's unstable wife and a host of hauntings.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
05-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dominik Moll, Lemming
Partial Artsnew
Kaige proves we don't need another Hero.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
05-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Chen Kaige, The Promise
The End of Violencenew
Vengeance is mined one last time as Chanwook concludes his viscerally traumatic trilogy.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
04-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lady Vengeance, Park Chanwook
Pre-Mortemnew
This morbid romantic dramedy inspires cancer awareness.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
04-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Look Both Ways, Sarah Watt
Down for the Countnew
A bubbly cast and clever banter can't overcome this film's blatant Tarantinoisms.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
04-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lucky Number Slevin, Paul McGuigan
In a Lonely Placenew
This film recasts hard-boiled cliches as metaphors for teenage isolation.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
03-29-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Brick, Rian Johnson
Plains Loungenew
Buscemi's miserablist home movie tracks a sullen scribe's homecoming.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
03-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim
Barroom Sprawlnew
Wenders longs to make narrative choices the way a jazz guitarist chooses licks, capriciously, hunting for grooviness -- but the attempt imbues his movies with the personality of a hungover Beat poet playing dress-up.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
03-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Don't Come Knocking, Wim Wenders
Deeper Throatnew
Reygadas presents a Mexican masterpiece of formal intelligence and unstable perspectives -- plus blowjobs.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
02-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Carlos Reygadas, Battle in Heaven
Welcome to the Doll Factorynew
Soderbergh doesn't condescend to middle America, but he doesn't do much of anything else either.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
