AltWeeklies Wire
'Flawless' Isn'tnew
It's a pity that even escapist genre fiction stoops to having a message these days.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Flawless, Michael Radford
Living Through Thisnew
Andre Techine's latest takes an intimate look at a different generation of survivors.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
04-01-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: André Téchiné, The Witnesses
Growing Wildnew
Another visit to Brazil's slums tries to show how gun-toting boys become men.
Baltimore City Paper |
Steve Erickson |
03-04-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: City of Men, Paulo Morelli
The Lebanese 'Fried Green Tomatoes'new
It's nothing we haven't seen before, women in joyous, sensual solidarity that's only slightly marred by the preservative tang of a manufactured moment. But there's something about the mise-en-scene that erodes our reluctance to sink into whatever this luxuriant movie has to offer.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
02-12-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Caramel, Nadine Labaki
Myth Guidednew
Woody Allen's latest Greek allusions don't add up to much.
Baltimore City Paper |
Cole Haddon |
01-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Cassandra's Dream
Ground Zeronew
Cloverfield turns attacking New York into mass-market Hollywood entertainment.
Baltimore City Paper |
Evan Guilfoyle |
01-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
Another Gushernew
Let me state this plainly: There is no stronger entry for the Best American Movie of 2007 than Paul Thomas Anderson's showy, jagged, complex There Will Be Blood.
Baltimore City Paper |
Evan Guilfoyle |
01-15-2008 |
Reviews
Jimmy Carter, the Likable Politiciannew
Despite its running time, Man From Plains suffers from a sound-bite sensibility.
Baltimore City Paper |
Steve Erickson |
11-13-2007 |
Reviews
Director Sidney Lamut Creates the Taut Dramanew
Whenever a movie begins with a wide-screen view of Philip Seymour Hoffman's ass, there's a director behind the camera who doesn't take orders.
Baltimore City Paper |
John Barry |
11-13-2007 |
Reviews
True Hollywood Storynew
Gladiator director Ridley Scott glams up the life of Harlem heroin distributor Frank Lucas.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
11-08-2007 |
Reviews
Everybody Will Love This Doc on a Little-Seen Bandnew
An entertaining and informative overview of one of Baltimore's more beguiling musical treasures.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
11-06-2007 |
Reviews
'The Jane Austen Book Club': The Slight Fluffnew
Underdeveloped, unbelievable women, borderline gross romances, and talky bits -- shh, it's not over yet!
Baltimore City Paper |
Anna Ditkoff |
10-09-2007 |
Reviews
Adam Goldberg is the New Woody Allen?new
2 Days in Paris is a casually heady, observationally nuanced peek inside one couple's romantic foibles -- for good and, most humorously, ill.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 2 Days in Paris, Julie Delpy
'The 11th Hour' Directors Hope to Deliver a Global Warningnew
The film distinguishes itself from other talking-head documentaries not only by the sheer emotional fervor, but also by demonstrating that our species can engineer its survival.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
'September Dawn' Just Feels Made-upnew
The story of the Fancher party's massacre at the hands of the Utah Mormon militia, with help from manipulated local Indians, needs nothing more than a deft telling of fear and discrimination in an innocent field -- unfortunately, here it receives unnecessary melodrama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Wendy Ward |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn
