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Bridget Behind Bars!new
Desperate to propel a plot when chemistry doesn't work, this sequel puts its heroine through the wringer. Female viewers may feel similarly abused.
Seattle Weekly |
Laura Cassidy |
11-10-2004 |
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Kerry's Best Campaignnew
Will his new biopic make John Kerry president? Not likely, but it's one of the very best of the Democrat-friendly docs stampeding in the wake of "Fahrenheit 9/11."
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
09-29-2004 |
Reviews
Report from Telluridenew
I can't remember a more consistently stimulating festival. Even movies that were practically guaranteed to be ghastly—a no-budget first film shot in the subways of Hungary, anyone?—turned out to be a gas, and even the occasional failures were ambitious and honorable.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
09-15-2004 |
Movies
Over the River’s Edgenew
In Mean Creek, Stand by Me meets Lord of the Flies.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-25-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mean Creek, Jacob Aaron Estes
Zhang, He’s Good!new
A Chinese master’s swashbuckling epic kicks airborne ass in rainbow shades.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
08-25-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Zhang Yimou, Hero
A Partly Cloudy Look at the Summer Movies Aheadnew
June starts with the third Harry Potter movie, which finds our almost-adolescent heroes and hot older heroine smoking pot, having three-way sex, and road-tripping across Mexico. No, wait, that’s the last movie directed by Alfonso Cuarón, "Y Tu Mamá También," and we’d much rather see a sequel to that.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Fahrenheit 9,011new
Sacrilege? No, for once a remake makes sense—and will make more people mad than Michael Moore.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
07-27-2004 |
Reviews
Revenge of the Nerdnew
The eight-limbed villain eclipses the hero in this comic-book sequel. Couldn’t glum, self-doubting Spidey afford to loosen up just a bit?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 2
Moore of the Same, But Less Convincingnew
You can share Moore’s every political sentiment in the movie yet fail to be persuaded by his logic. It’s all associative, an argument by induction and inference. All the cheap shots and easy cuts—Iraqis bleed, Bush smirks—fail to make a coherent case.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Terminally Trappednew
Steven Spielberg masterfully makes the airport terminal a character in its own right, a bright, bland emporium of name-brand culture—not the ’60s pleasure palace in "Catch Me if You Can," but an inescapable enclosure, a bit like the haunted house in "Poltergeist" or the totalitarian dystopias of "AI" and "Minority Report."
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
06-16-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Spielberg, The Terminal
The Corporation Psychoanalyzednew
Corporations are "persons" under the law. A new book and film ask, What kind of people?
Seattle Weekly |
Roger Downey |
06-15-2004 |
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