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The Pink Panthernew
Steve Martin's dreaded riff on Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau comes off like a Saturday Night Live skit from the late 1970s, when audiences showed up nicely toasted and a guest host could coast on the same wild and crazy schtick week after week.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Shawn Levy, The Pink Panther
A Commercial Contrivancenew
Don't expect the same kind of conservative backlash that has accompanied that other gay film currently in theaters -- this film offers nothing that will shake up our social mores.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
Shanghai Anxietynew
The final collaboration between Ismail Merchant and James Ivory isn't their absolute best effort, but as swan songs go, it's still a sight more auspicious than the last-ever Simpson-Bruckheimer picture.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
A Reality-Battered Psychenew
Forget that it's, like, the 1,264th documentary about the Iraq situation and you'll thank yourself at the end of Occupation: Dreamland.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-02-2006 |
Reviews
The Necessity of Violence?new
Paradise Now renders its twin protagonists' countdown to martyrdom as a suspense story that keeps reminding us of the parallels between terrorism and mass entertainment.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
2 Fast 2 Fatuousnew
Sir Anthony Hopkins portrays Burt Munro, an aged New Zealander who traveled all the way to the Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1960s to see what kind of speeds his vintage Indian motorcycle could handle.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-02-2006 |
Reviews
Show Businessnew
Mrs. Henderson Presents is a bit of theatrical history that relies on recurrent full-frontal nudity but which you can still take your mom and dad to.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-02-2006 |
Reviews
Head of the Classnew
Loggerheads is an exquisite ensemble drama set in three North Carolina communities.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
01-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Loggerheads, Tim Kirkman
Unloading Baynew
In Keane, Lodge Kerrigan confirms something every commuter dreads: Transportation stations may be gateways to home and security, but they can also be places where people become hopelessly lost.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Keane, Lodge Kerrigan
Stretching the Pointnew
The hype is technically true: Match Point is Woody Allen's best movie in years, but only because he's already had practice making it.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
A Sukkot Fablenew
A rare glimpse into Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community, the morality drama Ushpizin sets forth the role of ritual in a strange and fascinating environment.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
A Lowballernew
One day, Ryan Reynolds will land in a film that makes full use of his talent for conveying quiet, wide-eyed mischievousness.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Just Friends, Roger Kumble
Survival of the Speciesnew
Tanzania's Lake Victoria is teeming with Nile perch, enormous fish that make their way to the dining tables of millions of eaters per day.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
Slush Fundnew
It's perfectly possible to enjoy The Ice Harvest, just as soon as you recognize it as Harold Ramis's willful attempt to thwart every expectation he's built up in his career as a cineplex funster.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Harold Ramis, The Ice Harvest
Slender Vittlesnew
You couldn't cram another gimmick into Nine Lives if you doubled its running time and made the screen twice as high.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nine Lives, Rodrigo García
