AltWeeklies Wire
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 |
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Wedding Crushersnew
More well-meaning than well-made, writer-director Ali Selim's Sweet Land is a modestly engaging bit of Americana.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
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Tags: Ali Selim, Sweet Land
Play Deadnew
This movie simulates an assassination with impressive verisimilitude but misses an essential quality of Americans’ relationship with their president: its sheer absurdity.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
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Mommie Drearestnew
Running With Scissors proceeds as a series of skits, way too cool and ironic to be disturbing, no matter how aberrant the latest development.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
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Tags: Running With Scissors, Ryan Murphy
Stray Heirsnew
Tideland is like a Wyeth painting...on smack.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
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Tags: Terry Gilliam, Tideland
You Talkin' To Me?new
A higher power was clearly not guiding the screenwriter.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-27-2006 |
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Selling Soulsnew
Undeniably if sometimes unsettlingly beautiful, but the narrative unveils somewhat confusingly.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-27-2006 |
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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 |
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Tags: Takashi Shimizu, The Grudge 2
Tin Soldiers and Bush Coming
Crisp, lively, but unsurprising.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2006 |
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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 |
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Tags: Christopher Nolan, The Prestige
But What About the Children?
Intentionally very literary, but feelings that might persuade on the page don't work when all the characters are embodied by movie stars.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2006 |
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Tags: Little Children, Todd Field
'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 |
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Tags: American Hardcore, Paul Rachman
Royal Pains
It all should add up to a tone that’s energetic and fun, yet the two-plus-hours Marie Antoinette is as empty as the calories the character consumes.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2006 |
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Tags: Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola
Lost in Forestation
A fill-in-the-blanks experience that defines itself more by what it isn’t than what it is.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2006 |
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Tags: Kelly Reichardt, Old Joy
Songs of the Road
On one level, Riding Alone is Zhang’s most sentimental film, with lots of tear-jerking and even some outright blubbering. It’s also a remarkably sanguine portrait of the Chinese penal system, which proves unconvincingly receptive to the fixation of one bull-headed Japanese tourist.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2006 |
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