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The Old Blacknew
Years from now, cinema-studies teachers will refer to Walk the Line as a textbook example of what a biopic looks like when it gets everything right.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Dial M for Menswearnew
Mere minutes into its opening credits, the heated black comedy El Crimen Perfecto has its title reshuffled into El Crimen Ferpecto. And that Spanish spoonerism says everything about the film.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Gleeful Weaponnew
At a stage when most successful screenwriters have settled into a grateful pursuit of the lowest common denominator, it's a kick to see a scribe like Shane Black.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shane Black, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Alien-Busting Adventuresnew
Jon Favreau's sort-of-sequel to Jumanji is full of nonsense physics and missed opportunities, though it almost redeems itself via its realistically fractious portrayal of brothers forced into a playtime gone weirdly cosmic.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
Hip-Hop Hypocrisiesnew
Determined to star in his own 8 Mile, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson comes up a day late and a dollar short.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Another Adultery-Driven Adrian Lyne Knockoffnew
It's impossible to ignore what an unimpressive film has received the honor of being the first release from the newly formed Weinstein Co.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mikael Hafstrom, Derailed
Costume Dramanew
After umpteen film and TV translations, what reason can there be to take another whack at Pride and Prejudice?
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joe Wright, Pride & Prejudice
Lying Downnew
Distributor ThinkFilm raised so much of a stink about its Where the Truth Lies receiving an NC-17 rating that one had to assume the movie was some sort of crusading artistic statement.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
Department of Truthnew
Even when it's shot through with apology, a June-November romance like Shopgirl is full of unsavory implications.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
Dreary, With Occasional Outbursts of Humornew
Scuttling his reputation for liveliness, Gore Verbinksi proves that following a fictional TV weatherman around a secondary market can be as dull as the real thing.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
A Fable Gone Sci-Finew
Here is yet another movie that lays the groundwork for being one type of entertainment and abruptly becomes something else entirely.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chicken Little, Mark Dindal
Gentleman's Seasnew
A lot of us have long thought that Jeff Daniels was an innocuous onscreen presence, and now it's time to take it all back.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Spill the Weinsteinnew
My Big Fat Independent Movie is a pleasant surprise, if only because a handful of seemingly credible reports had indicated the film was the Antichrist.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tru Colorsnew
With the concepts of artistic representation and exploitation becoming hopelessly blurred, the need for Capote couldn't be more compelling.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Kidnappednew
This is the story of seven strangers picked to live in a house … but only for a few hours, thanks to inhaled poison that's rotting their bodies from the inside.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Saw II, Darren Lynn Bausman
