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Trio Life
Dreamgirls hits most of the right notes for drama told through song.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-14-2006 |
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Tags: Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
Drafting a Kid for an Oscar Bidnew
Happyness sort of has the spirit of Life Is Beautiful, only without all the Nazis and genocide.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
12-13-2006 |
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Standing on Shaky Groundnew
This well-meaning social drama about the intersecting lives of a dysfunctional, upper-middle-class family in suburbia and the residents of a deteriorating public-housing project is flimsy at best.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
12-08-2006 |
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Tags: Matt Tauber, The Architect
Serial Mumnew
For a diversion -- or a reminder that most of us are spared the burden of murderous housekeepers, no matter how well they cook -- you could do worse, but you could also do much better.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
12-08-2006 |
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Tags: Keeping Mum, Niall Johnson
Harper's Bizarrenew
Lewis Lapham examines the elite in this strange musical documentary.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
12-08-2006 |
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Wild at Heartnew
Armed with a digital camera and his own brand of logic, Lynch forges inward.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-08-2006 |
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Tags: David Lynch, Inland Empire
Total Bullshitnew
Apocalypto is more long-winded than a booze-sloshed tirade.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
12-06-2006 |
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Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson
Antihero: DiCaprio Just Gets Better
Volatile intrigue abounds in this politicized story about South African arms dealer and diamond smuggler and a former diamond mine captive desperate to reunite with his family.
Tags: Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick
New World Ardor
Gibson captures the simple (500-year-old) story of an intense personal quest in Apocalypto.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-02-2006 |
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Tags: Apocalypto, Mel Gibson
Healing With Hopenew
An all-star cast portrays the regular folk wounded by history.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-30-2006 |
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Tags: Bobby, Emilio Estevez
Boring, Pretentious and Shoddynew
The Brothers Quay should have stuck with puppets.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
11-29-2006 |
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The Good Fightnew
Wrestling with Angels charts Tony Kushner's art and politics.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-24-2006 |
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Art and Politicsnew
Documentarian Freida Lee Mock presents her subject as a play in three acts, but the academic and fragmented structure obscures the warmth of this playwright.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-22-2006 |
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'The Fountain' Is Just a Dying Tree
Metaphysical space age imaginings counter the death of a loved one in writer/director Darren Aronofsky's visually stunning yet superficial fantasy.
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
Not So Happy Mealnew
Linklater and Eric Schlosser's noble and worthy film about meat processing and consumption smacks of good-guy agitprop and fails as a character-driven narrative.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2006 |
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