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Unsure Shotnew
A new film depicts how a kid became a killer, almost, during the frustrating first Gulf War. Its main achievement is to get us inside Anthony Swofford's "empty vessel," the mind of a Marine, a "jarhead," as it is first formed by hardship, then filled with horror.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-02-2005 |
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Tags: Jarhead, Sam Mendes
Love in the Late Afternoonnew
Steve Martin stretches his novella into a modest, melancholy and affecting film.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-26-2005 |
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Tags: Steve Martin, Shopgirl
Enemy Minesnew
Good filmmaking and bad conspire in the ultimately affecting sexual-harassment saga North Country.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Manufacturing Dissentnew
George Clooney's sophomore directorial effort subtly attacks a press corps controlled by conglomerates.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-13-2005 |
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The Substance of Lifenew
This adaptation of Haruki Murakami's eponymous short story is a delicate little curio, lighter than air and gravely philosophical at once.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jun Ichikawa, Tony Takitani
A Tough Habit to Breaknew
The plot realistically mimics a teenager's adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker
In Cold Bloodnew
David Cronenberg defines the history of violence, though with such cold-blooded efficiency and cryptic detachment, his film may evoke more admiration than pleasure.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-22-2005 |
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Love Interruptednew
At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: 2046, Wong Kar Wai
Third Whirled
Despite noble intentions, The Constant Gardener eventually starts running in circles.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-23-2005 |
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Bill Murray Bloomsnew
Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers sends Bill Murray in search of his romantic past.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
08-04-2005 |
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Tags: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch
Love, Sex, and Everything Elsenew
A movie about master manipulators and the people who love them is rife with surprises.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
07-28-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Roos, Happy Endings
Always a Bridesmaidnew
Vince Vaughn -- the role model for every guy who ever dreamed of living in his parents' basement till he was 35 -- is Wedding Crashers' skirt-chasing master of ceremonies.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-18-2005 |
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Embryonic Death
Che Guevera would've been proud of the Eastern European sensibility Walter Salles brings to Dark Water, written by a guy who apparently has some buried, unresolved issues with his Mama's womb.
Dayton City Paper |
Aaron Epple |
07-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dark Water, Walter Salles
Spielberg and Cruise Wage Battle Against Good Filmmakingnew
A film reviewer barely survives the end of civilization, what with the space aliens, overly hyped directing and Katie Holmes' object of lust.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
06-29-2005 |
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Lord of This Castlenew
The latest from animation master Hayao Miyazaki is ravishingly beautiful but narratively inferior to all his other flims.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2005 |
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