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Flight Risknew
Wes Craven takes a suspense cue from Alfred Hitchcock in Red Eye.
Dallas Observer |
Luke Y. Thompson |
08-22-2005 |
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Cherry on Topnew
The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-22-2005 |
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Working Bluenew
The Aristocrats goes inside the dirtiest joke ever told and reveals a nugget of unadulterated joy.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
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Bad News Is Just Thatnew
You will still recognize a little of what remains onscreen, but the plastic surgeons have botched the job, rendering Bad News Bears hideously deformed.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-25-2005 |
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Steel Wheelsnew
Murderball, a documentary about quad rugby players, absolutely kills.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-25-2005 |
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Always a Bridesmaidnew
Vince Vaughn -- the role model for every guy who ever dreamed of living in his parents' basement till he was 35 -- is Wedding Crashers' skirt-chasing master of ceremonies.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-18-2005 |
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Skate Borednew
Adding only melodrama and pretty young boys, this fictional version of a documentary about the birth of skateboarding in 1970s California is no improvement on the original.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
06-06-2005 |
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We're No Angelsnew
Much of Crash, an L.A.-stories portmanteau about the suffocating embrace of racism, is hard to watch, harder still to listen to. It reminds us there's bad to be found in good people, and evil lurking even in the righteous.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-10-2005 |
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Jokes? What Jokes?new
The droll has been made dull, a most inexplicable and unfortunate turn of events for so adored a genius, goofball work as Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-02-2005 |
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Lost in Translationnew
All talk and little action, The Interpreter plays like a messy hodgepodge of moods, ideas, politics and emotions.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
04-25-2005 |
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Tags: Sydney Pollack, The Interpreter
Allen and Costner Are Upside's Upsidenew
This movie belongs to Joan Allen, who plays Terry Wolfmeyer, a wife abandoned by her husband and left to pick up the pieces and collect them in a giant bottle of vodka. Terry's is the cold, composed visage of a woman struggling to keep it together.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
03-21-2005 |
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Tags: Mike Binder, The Upside of Anger
Documentary Takes Aim at a Dubious Diagnosisnew
The film makes a compelling argument that many Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy cases are the result of doctors prescribing powerful drugs, particularly neuroleptics, for infants, and then mistaking the strange side effects for harm caused by mothers.
Dallas Observer |
Glenna Whitley |
03-15-2005 |
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No Dicking Aroundnew
Condon's movie, faithful to several texts about Kinsey, may be set decades ago, but it feels as relevant as tomorrow's news. In the 1940s, Professor Kinsey fostered a discussion that has turned into a shouting match. No longer startled by his discoveries, we're now aghast at the implications.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
11-19-2004 |
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Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey
Scars and Barsnew
John Dullaghan's documentary gathers Charles Bukowski's old friends and admirers and publishers to share their tales, but most of all it lets the dead poet tell his own story in archival footage that makes him seem more alive now that he's a beloved ghost who can harm no one else, especially himself.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
11-02-2004 |
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Secrets and Liesnew
With his latest film, Mike Leigh skirts a new, dangerous arena -- the morality play. The movie is about family and the differences between the happy and sad varieties. But the story involves a woman who performs illegal abortions.
Dallas Observer |
Melissa Levine |
10-25-2004 |
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