AltWeeklies Wire
Cracking Up the Code
Howard's film is a soft mush of the book's ideas.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ron Howard, The Da Vinci Code
Resistance is Futile
This series of anecdotes gradually accumulates a devastating power.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-15-2006 |
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Mewl Britannia
Africa's colonial period may be over, but the Western tradition of making pretentious, Anglocentric, overlong movies about the continent lives on.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard E. Grant, Wah-Wah
Goals to Newcastle
All slo-mo, Britpop, and blood-pumping, Goal! is nothing less -- or more -- than Armageddon on the soccer pitch.
Washington City Paper |
Huan Hsu |
05-15-2006 |
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Statutory Rope
Valley takes itself altogether too seriously, even when dealing in giggle-eliciting cliches.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Jacobson, Down in the Valley
All the World's a Sage
Whatever the source of Art School Confidential's bile, this portrait of the young man as an artist could use less concept and more craft.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-15-2006 |
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Waif, Waif, Don’t Tell Me
The story wanders in unexpected directions, but mostly Somersault just wanders.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-15-2006 |
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Tags: Cate Shortland, Somersault
Australian for Leer
Not since Crash has a movie been so ruthlessly espaliered around a single theme.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Look Both Ways, Sarah Watt
Cruise Control
This is as brisk and artiness-free as a summer blockbuster should be.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-15-2006 |
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Compassion Play
These days, peril doesn't necessarily have anything to do with empathy.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-15-2006 |
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Cry the Beloved Country
Gitai presents a cunning mix of documentary-style filmmaking and minimalist theatricality.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Amos Gitai, Free Zone
Women's Rites
Water is too smitten with local color to render its widows' plight as universal.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: water, Deepa Mehta
Starved for Affection
Does anybody actually have holiday dinners as epically bad as the ones in Hollywood movies?
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-04-2006 |
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Tags: Salvador Litvak, When Do We Eat?
Empty Promise
The Promise leaves us nothing but fancy costumes.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Chen Kaige, The Promise
Floor Routine
Stick It is an exercise in mediocrity.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jessica Bendinger, Stick It
