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Dreck the Hallsnew
Big names can’t help the waaay contrived story.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nancy Meyers, The Holiday
Stay Homenew
Turistas is the worst kind of horror movie.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Stockwell, Turistas
Childish Destiny
Call it Antichrist Superstar.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Identity Crisisnew
Even a solid cast can't do much with a script whose dialogue is occasionally torturous and whose story goes nowhere.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon Brand, unknown
Pointless and Shootnew
Iraq in Fragments is meatiest, politically speaking, in its center, yet Longley merely points and shoots instead of providing much context.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Iraq in Fragments, James Longley
Sniff and Scratchnew
Flashy, like Miami Vice the series; bloated like Miami Vice the movie.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Billy Corben, Cocaine Cowboys
Gettin' Jiggy With It
Saw III nearly ruins its improbable superiority over the franchise’s predecessors with a stupefying amount of denouement gab.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw III
Driving Miss Crazy
Starring Harry Potter's Rupert Grint, this is like a TV series that tries, and fails, to reinvent a former cast member of a popular sitcom.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Driving Lessons, Jeremy Brock
New Yak City
Cohen makes tired American jokes funny again, and the fact that he is able to use this vehicle to expose the open hate that still exists here is just a surprising bonus.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
You Talkin' To Me?new
A higher power was clearly not guiding the screenwriter.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Selling Soulsnew
Undeniably if sometimes unsettlingly beautiful, but the narrative unveils somewhat confusingly.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Unscary Movie
You may as well play the trailer over and over again for about 95 minutes and save your bucks.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Takashi Shimizu, The Grudge 2
Vanishing Act
Unlike writer-director Nolan's debut, The Prestige doesn't offer a conclusion that's thought-provoking so much as dismissible.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
'Core Values
Perhaps what's most amusing about Rachman's doc is the kids-these-days! attitude of now-adult, former rebels, ranting against unnamed artists implied to be, say, Good Charlotte or blink-182.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Hardcore, Paul Rachman
