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'Outrage' Celebrates the Kiss-and-Tellnew
Kirby Dick's documentary offers a surprisingly in-depth look at D.C.'s secret gayness on the way to its apparent objective: justifying the privacy violations inherent in ejecting the Larry Craigs and Mark Foleys from D.C.'s crowded closet.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
06-10-2009 |
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'The Soloist' Is As Much About the Power of Music to Transform As It Is About Friendshipnew
You can learn more about the story of mentally ill musical prodigy Nathaniel Ayers in a 12-minute segment of a March 60 Minutes broadcast than in the 109 minutes of The Soloist. But what a wonderful 109 minutes they are.
San Antonio Current |
John Thomason |
04-22-2009 |
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The Circle Of Inconvenient Half-Truthsnew
Disney's Earth is a stunning spectacle of nature's richness, packaged and delivered without the faintest whiff of corporate deception. But don't worry, it's in there.
San Antonio Current |
Greg Harman |
04-22-2009 |
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Jiri Menzel is Still Depicting How History Swallows Little Livesnew
Using accelerated motion, period music, and silent sequences in black-and-white to suggest history as farce, Menzel makes a mocking spectacle of Czechoslovakia in the 20th century.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
10-22-2008 |
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Nick and Norah's Adventures Get Tiringnew
The characters crisscross Manhattan through adventures and emotional highs and lows — including a string of celebrity cameos and a rather creative sexual encounter in a recording studio — that rightly leaves audiences feeling just as worn out by the time the sun finally rises.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
10-01-2008 |
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'Blindness': Fade to Whitenew
Blindness, a screen adaptation of Portuguese author Jose Saramago's novel, explores the probable effects of a widespread and incurable epidemic in the present day, though the storyline's most far-fetched aspects suggest the film is really an obtuse metaphor never fully elaborated.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
10-01-2008 |
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Tags: Fernando Meirelles, Blindness
'The Lucky Ones': Back From Iraq, But Lost in Americanew
The Lucky Ones is a road movie, but, though Colee, Fred Cheever, and T.K. Poole cover more than 1,700 miles after deplaning at JFK, the film is remarkably indifferent to the physical landscape of the United States.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
10-01-2008 |
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'August Evening': Apolitical Immigration Argumentnew
Alamo City is no land of golden opportunity, offering only dog tracks, layoffs, and day-labor lines to Spanish speakers with limited educations and no paperwork.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-17-2008 |
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Tags: August Evening, Chris Eska
'Burn After Reading' is No Lebowskinew
The writing is as solid as you'd hope, though the humor in this story of two bumbling gym employees who accidentally blackmail an ex-CIA agent and immediately get in over their heads with national-security heavies is mostly dry, situational, and low-key.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-10-2008 |
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'In Search of a Midnight Kiss': 'Annie Hall' for Coldplay Fansnew
The relationship dynamics in Holdridge's script feel true to now, when online come-ons have largely replaced the bar scene, hardcore pornography is a casual conversation topic, and "internet infidelity" is a potential relationship killer.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-03-2008 |
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'Tropic Thunder' Wasn't the Expected Rambo-style Satirenew
What I got, and what I should have expected, was a rather well-produced and spectacle-driven broad action-comedy that should satisfy anyone not expecting a wealth of subtle or subversive humor. Duh, right?
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
08-13-2008 |
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Tags: Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder
'Step Brothers' Wastes Its Comedy Giantsnew
Even avoiding Semi-Talla-Anchor-Blades-of-Dewey comparisons, the jokes are old. But underneath the recycling is a sadder story of several very talented comic giants, including Judd Apatow, wasting their credentials on tired gags.
San Antonio Current |
G. Brian Davis |
07-23-2008 |
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'Roman de Gare' is a Story of Reversals and Revengenew
Claude Lelouch's Roman de Gare is full of deceitful characters, all unaware that they are making their way into a novel called God, the Other.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
06-25-2008 |
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In Defense of M. Night Shyamalannew
Like an otherwise artsy band who garners commercial success on the strength of one atypically radio-friendly song, with The Sixth Sense Shyamalan established a base of moviegoers who have since strained to find the same sort of big-box-office spookiness and twists instead of recognizing what each subsequent film has actually had to offer.
San Antonio Current |
Cynthia Hawkins |
06-11-2008 |
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David Mamet Shows Jiu Jitsu Some Lovenew
Redbelt is a likable distraction, especially for Mamet's trademark staccato dialogue and the deft choreography of its martial-arts sequences.
San Antonio Current |
Steven G. Kellman |
05-07-2008 |
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