AltWeeklies Wire
Why We Fightnew
This is an impeccable wartime thriller from a French crime auteur.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
07-19-2006 |
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Stereotypical Storynew
How many cliches can a filmmaker pile into one character before audiences cry, "Enough"?
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
05-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Julian Jarrold, Kinky Boots
Reality Bitesnew
Watching Weitz's latest requires parsing through The Really Fake and Surreally Real.
Baltimore City Paper |
Cole Haddon |
04-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Dreamz, Paul Weitz
O Lucky Mannew
Josh Hartnett gets the best lines and Lucy Liu in this cleverly forgettable crime yarn.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lucky Number Slevin, Paul McGuigan
Louder Than Bombsnew
Ideas fuel this sci-fi thriller for the terrorism age.
Baltimore City Paper |
Cole Haddon |
03-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James McTeigue, V for Vendetta
Guilty as Chargednew
You're guilty of helping screw up Sidney Lumet's latest movie.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
03-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sidney Lumet, Find Me Guilty
Buried Treasuresnew
Tommy Lee Jones' idiosyncratic directorial debut is all over the south Texas map.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
03-08-2006 |
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The Distracted Dognew
Only Whoopi Goldberg and Jon Stewart's often improvised lines save this animated free-for-all from complete irrelevancy.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
03-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Doogal, Butch Hartman
Dancing in the Streetsnew
Dave Chappelle doesn't have to shuffle to throw a killer party.
Baltimore City Paper |
Jason Torres |
03-01-2006 |
Reviews
A Stalk to Remembernew
A family unwillingly has someone to watch over them in this psychological thriller.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
02-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché
Shanghai Crimesnew
Ralph Fiennes doesn’t even phone in his role in this stilted 1930s period drama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
American Beautynew
Terrence Malick's latest is defined by its combination of beauty and opacity.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
01-18-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Terrence Malick, The New World
Comedy Is Not Funnynew
Comedienne Sarah Silverman rubs our noses in it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
12-14-2005 |
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Clash of the Titansnew
New Zealand's biggest director meets American cinema's biggest metaphor.
Baltimore City Paper |
Gary Dowell |
12-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: King Kong, Peter Jackson
The Usual Subtextsnew
The Johnny Cash biopic misinterprets the Man In Black as just another troubled artist in search of redemption.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
11-16-2005 |
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