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Cross to Bear
With its facile attempt at political indictment and across-the-board caricature, Poster Boy is less thought-provoking than just plain irritating.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Poster Boy, Zak Tucker
Fifteen Blue
This is a Bible story set in the universe of Hummer limos and gentrification.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-25-2006 |
Reviews
The Bukowski Stops Here
Hamer's detachment suits the desultory exploits of Bukowski alter ego Henry Chinaski, who's underplayed with stunning authority by a bearded, lumpy Matt Dillon.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
08-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bent Hamer, Factotum
Numb and Number
The protagonist, a villain by the standards of most American movies, is treated not as a hero but as something more interesting: a fully drawn individual characterized not only by pivotal mistakes but also by the reasons for making them.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
08-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Half Nelson, Ryan Fleck
Freak to Cheek
Who will stop Sonzero from making another film?
Washington City Paper |
Matthew Borlik |
08-18-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jim Sonzero, Pulse
Step Off
If you don't hope for anything, you won't be disappointed.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-18-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Anne Fletcher, Step Up
Rolling Back the Years
If this is largely untraveled territory, that doesn't mean the jokes are fresh.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
08-18-2006 |
Reviews
Man-Witch
This is the kind of film M. Night Shyamalan wishes he could still make.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-18-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Burger, The Illusionist
Sloppy Joes
Trust the Man is an imperfect if pleasant surprise.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-18-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bart Freundlich, Trust the Man
No Pain, No Gain
Time to Leave makes the prelude to doom look remarkably banal and largely painless.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
08-18-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: François Ozon, Time to Leave
Beached Wails
Heading South understands the Third World-tourist dynamic, and neatly delineates the way two different kinds of people can live different kinds of existence in the same place.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
08-18-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Heading South, Laurent Cantet
Grandly Guignol
The film has cheesy dialogue and plot holes a mile wide, but also contains tight pacing, plenty of expertly timed scares, and the generous helping of unapologetic gore that's been missing from the glut of "horror" movies currently plaguing American screens.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
08-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Marshall, The Descent
Udder Disappointment
There are a few funny bits here and there, but any movie in which a singing cow introduces kids to Tom Petty can't be all bad.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-14-2006 |
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A Role in the Hay
Neither forcefully fruity nor sitcom-y broad, this story is pretty fabulous.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-14-2006 |
Reviews
Auteur Redemption
World Trade Center doesn't stint on devastation, but ultimately it depicts the towers' smoking remains as a place where souls are reclaimed -- and thus, by implication, where a director's shattered career can also be reborn.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
08-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, World Trade Center
