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Identity Crisisnew
Even a solid cast can't do much with a script whose dialogue is occasionally torturous and whose story goes nowhere.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon Brand, unknown
Deadpan Dead Mannew
The winning touches outnumber the missteps to make a story worth telling.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Pointless and Shootnew
Iraq in Fragments is meatiest, politically speaking, in its center, yet Longley merely points and shoots instead of providing much context.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Iraq in Fragments, James Longley
Sniff and Scratchnew
Flashy, like Miami Vice the series; bloated like Miami Vice the movie.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Billy Corben, Cocaine Cowboys
A Weak Vintagenew
If A Good Year demonstrates that director Scott loves French wine, film, and women, it also shows that -- cinematically, at least -- he doesn't know what to do about it.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, A Good Year
Heaven Harm Usnew
An appalling but essential film.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Amy Berg, Deliver Us From Evil
Gettin' Jiggy With It
Saw III nearly ruins its improbable superiority over the franchise’s predecessors with a stupefying amount of denouement gab.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw III
Where's the Fire?
Catch a Fire relies heavily on Bob Marley tunes and South African “freedom songs” to cover its lack of righteous passion.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Catch a Fire, Phillip Noyce
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
The essence of La Moustache is its inexplicability.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Emmanuel Carrére, La Moustache
Link Globally
Babel sacrifices its atmosphere in a quest to tabulate human misunderstanding and score obvious political points.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel
Driving Miss Crazy
Starring Harry Potter's Rupert Grint, this is like a TV series that tries, and fails, to reinvent a former cast member of a popular sitcom.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Driving Lessons, Jeremy Brock
New Yak City
Cohen makes tired American jokes funny again, and the fact that he is able to use this vehicle to expose the open hate that still exists here is just a surprising bonus.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Wedding Crushersnew
More well-meaning than well-made, writer-director Ali Selim's Sweet Land is a modestly engaging bit of Americana.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ali Selim, Sweet Land
Play Deadnew
This movie simulates an assassination with impressive verisimilitude but misses an essential quality of Americans’ relationship with their president: its sheer absurdity.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Mommie Drearestnew
Running With Scissors proceeds as a series of skits, way too cool and ironic to be disturbing, no matter how aberrant the latest development.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running With Scissors, Ryan Murphy
