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Life Isn't Beautiful
Does Fateless clear the bar already set by previous Holocaust accounts? Yes, but in a paradoxical way -- by pretending that the bar isn't there
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
02-03-2006 |
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Race to the Finish
It's weird that this story of love appears to be threaded with an undercurrent of hate.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-03-2006 |
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Feeble Attraction
Imagine this: that an all-consuming, 'til-death-do-us-part love affair gets under way in even less time than it takes the Brokeback boys to get it on.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-03-2006 |
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Grit and Polish
Removed from Merchant Ivory's upholstered interiors, the not-quite-romance seems nearly as grand as the world's conflicts.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
01-20-2006 |
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Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Jersey Barriers
This gritty and heartbreaking film interweaves the stories of three teenage girls living in the most crime-ridden parts of Jersey City.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
01-20-2006 |
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Martyrs and Miracles
This film is competent, but for any except the church-basement crowd, the theme will probably be a deal-breaker.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-20-2006 |
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How the West Was Wan
The New World accepts more of the Pocahontas legend than might be expected, responding not with a countermyth but with lyricism and ambiguity.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-20-2006 |
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Very Little Sex, Please -- We're British
Though not without moments of BBC-sitcom appeal, this undertaking is essentially lifeless.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-13-2006 |
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Fool Britannia
The violence is more convincing than the eroticism, but both are pallid.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-13-2006 |
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Fowl Out
Writer-director Dani Menkin's film seeks to prove how normal its subject is -- only in an exceptional, life-affirming way.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
01-13-2006 |
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Family Outing
Dorian Blues is a witty if familiar look at a young man's struggle with sexual identity.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
01-13-2006 |
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Hittin' the Entrails
Though the most dogged of gorehounds may find the film's uncynical conclusion hard to stomach, it suggests the film has some purpose besides being the most sickening morning-after movie ever -- perhaps even a timely one.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
01-06-2006 |
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Solid Wood
This is the first good Woody Allen movie since the neurotic New Yorker realized that a significant shake-up was in order if he were to once again be regarded as, well, significant.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
01-06-2006 |
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Yogi Unbearable
Viewers who know something about India or religion will be able to salvage a few moments from Naked in Ashes, despite the filmmakers' failure to provide anything more than the flimsiest of contexts.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-06-2006 |
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'Burb Your Enthusiasm
This is the second movie in two months from the Weinstein Company to pack the same essential message: There comes a time when the innocent suburbanite must learn how to kill.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-06-2006 |
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