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'My Best Friend': Who Needs Strangers?new

In the end, the film is too gimmicky -- it climaxes with Bruno on the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire -- to ever be a great movie, but it offers plenty of small pleasures.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Geoffrey Himes  |  08-14-2007  |  Reviews

'Introducing the Dwights': An Indie Yawnernew

The only reason movies like this exist is to provide targeted upscale art-house audiences with colorfully ignorant lower-class exotics to whom they can vicariously feel superior.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Ian Grey  |  08-14-2007  |  Reviews

'No End in Sight': Sobering Observations Soberly Presentednew

The truly horrible thing about Charles Ferguson's absolutely depressing documentary is that nothing it says is really new.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Bret McCabe  |  08-14-2007  |  Reviews

'Rescue Dawn': The Sheltering Flynew

As usual, a Werner Herzog movie isn't what it looks like on the surface.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Ian Grey  |  07-31-2007  |  Reviews

Children of the Revolutionnew

The latest movies from Michael Moore and Bruce Willis offer two very different views of our great nation.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Bret McCabe  |  07-03-2007  |  Reviews

'La Vie en Rose': She's Just That Goodnew

The line to lavish praise on Marion Cotillard's Edith Piaf starts right here.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Ian Grey  |  06-26-2007  |  Reviews

Not a Post-WWII Coming of Age Storynew

The plot to The Fury of the Entire World sounds more clumsily convoluted than it's told on-screen, as Pieters' plays this evenly paced mystery close to his chest, cagily dealing out his plot points.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Bret McCabe  |  04-24-2007  |  Reviews

The Warriorsnew

300 is a movie made to appeal to men, and the filmmakers behind it are remorseless about that fact.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Cole Haddon  |  03-07-2007  |  Reviews

England Dreamingnew

Cuaron's future days move and muddle in equal measure.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Lee Gardner  |  01-03-2007  |  Reviews

Man of Godnew

A new documentary charts the rise and fall of Jim Jones.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Bret McCabe  |  12-07-2006  |  Reviews

Mary, Quite Contrarynew

It works better out on your lawn.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Vio  |  11-29-2006  |  Reviews

Behind Energy Linesnew

Local filmmaker documents the devastating toll of cheap coal.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Lee Gardner  |  11-16-2006  |  Reviews

Dead Meatnew

Linklater's Fast Food Nation lives up to its cheap and unhealthy title.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Eric Allen Hatch  |  11-16-2006  |  Reviews

The War Against Comedynew

Feces, semen, urine, and the tears of a gypsy leave a great stain on the nation's silver screens.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Joe MacLeod  |  11-03-2006  |  Reviews

Coming in Lastnew

The other Truman Capote movie isn’t just second fiddle -- it’s awful.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Violet Glaze  |  10-12-2006  |  Reviews

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