AltWeeklies Wire
'Defiance': Tough Jewsnew
Edward Zwick's Holocaust film lacks subtlety -- and that's exactly why it's likely to be a crowd-pleaser.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
01-14-2009 |
Reviews
'Operation Filmmaker' is an Engrossing and, At Times, Infuriating Documentarynew
Not only are the connections driven home a little more forcefully than necessary, like the War In Iraq, Operation Filmmaker has no ending. Instead, it falls into a cycle of repetition until Davenport and her subject finally melt down beyond repair and the story, like much of life, goes unfinished. No conclusion is offered.
Metro Times |
Jeff Meyers |
09-23-2008 |
Reviews
Problem Childnew
The latest version of this cult classic is a pretty cool walk down satanic memory lane.
Reno News & Review |
Bob Grimm |
06-15-2006 |
Reviews
Light and Darknew
An amusing road trip through Ukraine leads to epiphanies of history and memory in actor Liev Schreiber's only partially illuminating adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
From Kiev, With Lovenew
Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz jumps from stage diving to scene stealing in Everything is Illuminated.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Quirky Road Trip Takes Melancholy Turnnew
Rather than aiming to please, the film expects a certain patience on the viewer's part as it ambles and slowly shifts from an often forced quirkiness to a bone-deep melancholy. That change of tack proves worth waiting for.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Something Missingnew
This film about a young man's search for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis certainly has strengths, including gorgeous art direction and clever humor, but its essence is empty.
