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Valuing Vague Virtuesnew
In a post-9/11 world, could any film be as politically provocative as one that makes a hero out of a bomb-throwing terrorist?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James McTeigue, V for Vendetta
Black Russiannew
Bekmambetov doesn't really transcend B-movie action fare, but compared to the witless celebrations of big guns and leather in films like Underworld: Evolution, Night Watch serves a more bracing cocktail of vodka and viscera.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Timur Bekmambetov, Night Watch
Enigma Eludes Documentariannew
Maybe the distance that Brown documents was the central heartbreak of Van Zandt's life -- a loneliness no amount of love and talent could ever remedy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-09-2006 |
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Conventional Snoozenew
Even the lowest-order hack director can usually milk some pedestrian thrills out of the serial killer thriller -- usually.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Alexander Bulkley, The Zodiac
Meet the Zuckersnew
The slapstick dynamics of the film are as conventional and bland as airplane cuisine.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dani Levy, Go for Zucker
Lost In a Good Booknew
Tristram Shandy falls short of the example set by Adaptation, an equally head-spinning movie about adapting an unfilmable book.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Chappelle's Returnnew
Perhaps because he's not spouting scripted material in a studio, Chapelle's delivery is much more subdued than audiences would expect from the usually madcap jokester in this documentary.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Carlton Hargro |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Lighten Up Your Oscar Partynew
How can you keep the Oscar-nominated films from killing your Oscar party?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Oscars
First World Dines, Third World Diesnew
Much as the fish destroyed the native ecosystem and obliterated everything smaller and weaker in its path, the Europeans who support Tanzania's fishing industry have decimated its people.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
Taking Moral Struggles Southnew
Just because Three Burials is a movie of few words doesn't mean it's profound.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
South Wins!new
By projecting the horrific implications of the Confederacy across a century-and-a-half of American history, C.S.A. might convince contemporary sons of the South to stop whistling "Dixie."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
'Me Decade' Hedonismnew
Joseph F. Lovett's unimaginatively filmed talkathon fails to find meaning in the sexual cornucopia that was Manhattan.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Unplugging the War Machinenew
Why We Fight shows clear merit in these convoluted, double-talking times, but thanks to the polarization of the American public, it's probably damned to preach to the choir.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight
Racial Tensions Crashnew
In the spirit of social issue films of the 1970s, Freedomland addresses a hot contemporary topic but nearly fumbles it, as if dazzled by celebrity and a desire to oversimplify its story.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
There Goes the Bridenew
The director seems determined to make nothing more than a low-budget version of a Hugh Grant-Hollywood rom-com.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
