AltWeeklies Wire
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
Express Lame
10 Items or Less wants to be an offbeat character study but forgets to study its characters.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: 10 Items or Less, Brad Silberling
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
Deadpan Dead Mannew
The winning touches outnumber the missteps to make a story worth telling.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
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
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
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
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
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
