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Matter Over Mindnew
Blood Diamond plays like Pearl Harbor set against the backdrop of an industry awash in blood.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick
Decline and Fallnew
As long as Gibson's film runs, it can't get out from under the director's continued fascination with the indignities man visits on man.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
12-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson
Food for Thoughtnew
Linklater's new film is a dull compromise between a soap opera and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
12-15-2006 |
Reviews
Serial Mumnew
For a diversion -- or a reminder that most of us are spared the burden of murderous housekeepers, no matter how well they cook -- you could do worse, but you could also do much better.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Keeping Mum, Niall Johnson
The Way We Werenew
Bobby succeeds as a tone poem, as a mood piece in service to the memory of a great man.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
12-08-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bobby, Emilio Estevez
An Excess of Good Sensenew
Despite Mirren's sensational performance, The Queen is sometimes as conservative in execution as the people it attempts to dramatize.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Frears, The Queen
Let There Be Lightnew
For beauty, for grief, for visual texture and a willingness to make such a strange, emotional, trippy film, Aronofsky deserves your attention.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
Flimsynew
Hollywood gets the better of Guest in easily the most Hollywood of his movies.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Blond Ambitionnew
This film goes back to Bond's roots.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
11-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Casino Royale, Martin Campbell
No, It's Not About Pornnew
According to filmmakers Paul Rachman and Steven Blush, the story of American hardcore is a short one.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Hardcore, Paul Rachman
Inner Voicesnew
Stranger than Fiction is a lightly sweetened romantic comedy with a philosophical itch to scratch.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
11-17-2006 |
Reviews
A Weave of Livesnew
In Babel, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu again creates feelings as much as he tells stories.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
11-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel
Sheer Lunacynew
A fearless film with a commando spirit, Borat is a necessary movie.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
11-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Borat, Larry Charles
Freudulentnew
Running With Scissors is alive with great performances that can't redeem the wandering, hesitant creature that is this bizarre black comedy.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
11-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running With Scissors, Ryan Murphy
This Thing Called 'Infamous'new
At the heart of this fine, fascinating film lies the uncertainty of publicly displaying private emotion, of baring and protecting the soul while in pursuit of lasting creation.
Eugene Weekly |
Suzi Steffen |
11-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Douglas McGrath, Infamous
