AltWeeklies Wire
New 'Jack City
Although it tends toward the schematic and sentimental, Tsotsi benefits from memorable performances.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-10-2006 |
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Absolutely Fatuous
Anyone expecting no more than another piece of inscrutable Xbox cinema might be satisfied by Ultraviolet.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-10-2006 |
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Tags: Kurt Wimmer, Ultraviolet
Unworthy
This assault on polite costume drama leaves Johnny Depp's likability barely bruised.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Laurence Dunmore, The Libertine
The Hills Have Axes, Too
The new face of fright: no more camp, no more suggestion, no more edge-of-your-seat fun -- only ultrarealistic, unapologetically nasty bloodshed.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-10-2006 |
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Tags: Alexandre Aja, The Hills Have Eyes
Grass Roots
Following Sean is a delicately woven, generation-spanning examination of family, idealism, and the classic question of nature versus nurture.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-10-2006 |
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Davey From the Block
Though the festivities can get distractingly self-congratulatory on screen, it's hard to begrudge Chappelle the success of what he calls the greatest day of his career.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
03-03-2006 |
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Lady of the Housecoat
Madea may be a big momma, but she's no Big Momma.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
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Beach Slap
Affable, synthetic and 100 percent girly, this beach-blanket renovation of The Little Mermaid boasts a virtually unknown cast and a plot so flimsy that merely to recount it is to kill it.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Aquamarine, Elizabeth Allen
Pulling Up Lame
Let's just say that Paul Walker is the best thing about Running Scared -- it's that bad.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer
Donner Paltry
If keeping the action fast and unrelenting makes for an exciting ride, well, it also makes for a rather unbelievable one.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Donner, 16 Blocks
Butt Seriously
Largely redundant, the only thing Lovett really adds to the post-Stonewall mythography is to remind us how attractive men's bodies actually were in the 70s, before the plague.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gay Sex in the 70s, Joseph Lovett
Courting Rituals
No one in front of or behind the camera in this film seems able to imagine a better outcome for a young black man from the projects than realizing those dreams of a Bentley and a Rolex and a shoe with his own name on it.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
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Thieve La France
Seen now, this movie looks much fresher than it probably did in 1960.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-24-2006 |
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Sucker Punch
In addition to being MTV-fast and CGI-savvy, the film offers a blend of cynicism and moralism that American viewers should find entirely familiar.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-24-2006 |
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2 Slow 2 Unfurious
When writing the story of a dumb but sort of sweet boy who has a thing for anonymous sex, it's probably a bad idea to give the boy a job in a chocolate factory.
Washington City Paper |
Trey Graham |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Garcon Stupide, Lionel Baier
