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Seattle Director Trips Through Mongolianew

Brian Short's ambitious documentary All My Love has no narration, no plot, and little more structure than its three themed movements. It also has the power to compel your visual surrender.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  01-07-2008  |  Reviews

'Honey and Clover': Another Art School Confidentialnew

Honey and Clover is a live-action manga adaptation set in a college dorm full of silent longing and artistic insecurity.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  12-10-2007  |  Reviews

Hip-Hop Hungarians Threaten President Bushnew

Since, outside of South Park, cartoons and politics generally don't mix, The District is a bold, vulgar treat, full of hip-hop serenades, dancing Russian hookers, international intrigue, and all manner of goofs on the ghetto culture we've exported so successfully to the Wild East.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  10-15-2007  |  Reviews

'Apart From That': Like Cassavetes in Skagit Countynew

The film makes a jumbled democracy of its rustic players; refreshingly, there's not a mumbling hipster among them.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  10-02-2007  |  Reviews

Again With Miserable Africanew

Angels takes an intimate, unstinting, ground's-eye view of the biological and social diseases ravaging Africa, making public-policy debate about AIDS in Africa seems distant and esoteric.
Seattle Weekly  |  Huan Hsu  |  10-02-2007  |  Reviews

Houston, We Have an Environmental Problemnew

The twist on this familiar astronaut story is that it's a post-Al Gore doc, itself in the shadow of An Inconvenient Truth.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  09-25-2007  |  Reviews

'Rocket Science': Where Twee Meets Dweebynew

It's another twee coming-of-age flick that appeals to the trucker-hat-and-bell-bottom set but never pulls its head out of the suburban lawn.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  08-13-2007  |  Reviews

'Vitus': High IQ Plus Even Higher Fructosenew

The film belongs to what might be called the Euro-cute school of cinema, and its few tolerable scenes mock continental pieties toward culture and family.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  08-06-2007  |  Reviews

'June & July': Bored (But Not Boring) Twins With a Secretnew

The jolting finale forces a conclusion on plot strands that, like the titular siblings, prove fundamentally incompatible.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  07-23-2007  |  Reviews

'Manufactured Landscapes': Why Your iPhone Is Destroying the Environmentnew

If the theme to this documentary is how we reshape nature to suit industry, one of the more eloquent and damning images is simply that of a female factory worker's hands rendered in close-up.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  07-16-2007  |  Reviews

'Joshua': Parenthood as a Literal (Yet Funny) Horror Shownew

The baby's incessant crying, the mother's nervous collapse, the father's bewildered reaction, the boy mysteriously popping up behind them at night -- Joshua makes parenthood itself into a horror movie.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  07-16-2007  |  Reviews

'Walking to Werner': Director Becomes Long-Distance Herzog Stalkernew

In more than one sense, this film is an act of endurance.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  07-02-2007  |  Reviews

'Eagle vs. Shark': A Wonderfully Weird, Wry Romancenew

Kiwis find love in all the wrong places.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  06-25-2007  |  Reviews

'Zoo': Tabloid Tale Turns Into Mushy Plea for Tolerancenew

Here is a movie that consents to leave unexamined what its persecuted male subjects would not confront in themselves.
Seattle Weekly  |  Brian Miller  |  05-14-2007  |  Reviews

Delightfully Accuratenew

For a movie about rock 'n' roll, this 2005 Japanese film-festival darling makes rebellion as demure as the tidy black bows on the schoolgirl uniforms of Kei and her insta-bandmates.
Seattle Weekly  |  Rachel Shimp  |  01-02-2007  |  Reviews

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