AltWeeklies Wire
Designer Cheap
La Mujer de Mi Hermano doesn't really care about anything besides chic modernity and good looks.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-04-2006 |
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Country Crock
Squires' film is moustache-twirling, anvil-dropping, tie-the-girl-to-the-railroad-tracks cartoonish.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Crazy Like a Fox, Richard Squires
Straw Man
Feuerzeig's sober and intelligent documentary doesn't exploit the schizophrenic subject.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-28-2006 |
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String Cheese
This comedy of manners has no keen fix on manners and no hunger for true human comedy.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-28-2006 |
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Cabin Pressure
Greengrass' account of the fourth plane to be hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, is the purest of action flicks.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
In the Mode for Love
Three Times depicts a Taiwan that has moved from enslavement to freedom yet has misplaced something of its culture and sense of community.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Three Times
Kibbles 'n' Tits
It's unlikely that there's another orgy movie out there that's more boring or irritating.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Catherine Cahn, Charlie's Party
Simon Says ... Nothing
Despite the currency of its topics, American Dreamz doesn't make you think, and it won't make you feel any smarter than watching American Idol does.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Dreamz, Paul Weitz
It's Hard Out Here for an Antelope
Mountain Patrol temporarily makes the matter of a few men's survival seem like the biggest thing in the world.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-21-2006 |
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Marginal Gloss
Although hardly more sanguine about working-class life than the directors' earlier work, L'Enfant is a bit less claustrophobic.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-21-2006 |
Reviews
The One About Hollywood Friends
As in her previous movies, Holofcener proves to be a most attentive observer of human behavior.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-21-2006 |
Reviews
Oh Bondage, I'm Yours!
Harron doesn't bother delving into the whys of Page's choices, but simply follows her from pretty schoolgirl to foxy pinup to lovely born-again Christian.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-21-2006 |
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The Discovery Channel
Writer Alex Rose fills the movie with just enough humor and heartbreak to keep its feel-goodness from making you gag.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gaby Dellal, On a Clear Day
Demeans to an End
The movie stops being a raw but sympathetic portrait of a boy's traumatic upbringing and becomes simply raw.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-17-2006 |
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Down and Pout
Lonesome Jim is so right in its particulars, so sure in its tone, that you can almost skate over the hollowness at its center.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim
