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Little Devilnew
"You will not like me," promises Johnny Depp's avowedly decadent Earl of Rochester in The Libertine -- only to swagger through a story that's positively jerry-rigged to earn our admiration.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Laurence Dunmore, The Libertine
Nudge Nudgenew
It's official: Michael Winterbottom makes the best cinematic whatchamacallits around.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Home Makeovernew
This movie is more noteworthy for the intimate suspense it brings to the subject of Israeli occupation than for any dramatic conclusion it chooses to reach.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Private, Saverio Costanzo
Patriot Gamesnew
If you're already well aware of what the military-industrial complex can do, you'll be tempted to see this documentary as a missed opportunity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight
Partay Monsternew
Perhaps only one man could pull off a movie as well-meaningly extraneous as Dave Chappelle's Block Party.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
A Russian Horrornew
This Russian blockbuster isn't as much fun as Constantine, but it has an imaginative streak that keeps it far above Underworld.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Night Watch, Timour Bekmambetov
Great Escapenew
The rags-to-riches basketball dream came true for Sebastian Telfair of Coney Island.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Sheperd |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Hock, Through the Fire
Witless Tediumnew
"From two of the six writers of Scary Movie 3," promise the ads, raising the possibility that we'll one day be sold a film "from two million of the six million monkeys who sat at typewriters and banged out Date Movie."
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Aaron Seltzer, Date Movie
A Satisfying Morality Playnew
Burials casts Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas ranch hand who loses his saintly Mexican buddy to the errant trigger finger of a brutal border guard.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Running Scarednew
Kramer's latest may disappoint folks who associate him solely with The Cooler, forgetting that he also happens to be the guy who wrote Mindhunters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer
Check-out Timenew
Simple-minded but sweet, this is an old-age tribute that doesn't press as hard on your gag reflex as The World's Fastest Indian.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Diary of a Mad Frenchwomannew
This film follows a story arc that, depending on one's perspective, is either a quaint relic of an alien culture or flat-out insane.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Frederic Fonteyne, Gilles' Wife
The Whole World is Watchingnew
Cache has every ingredient for art-house insufferability -- it's about upper-class Parisians, for starters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché
Bonfire of Inanitiesnew
Gotta hand it to Julianne Moore -- she's turned in a piece of overacting even the Oscars would be embarrassed to honor.
Orlando Weekly |
Steven Schneider |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
Most Unnecessary Remake?new
This familiar Stranger exhibits not a smidgen of awareness that its premise has been ripped off 500 times and parodied in three Scream movies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon West, When a Stranger Calls
