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'My Blueberry Nights': Pie in the Skynew
Norah Jones wows in Wong Kar-wai's sensual, romantic achievement.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-Wai
'Flawless': Time for Her Close-Upnew
Demi Moore makes another comeback -- but this time she resembles a drag queen.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Flawless, Michael Radford
'Flight of the Red Balloon': Blow Upnew
Trying to be too grown up, the film never penetrates child consciousness.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Martin Scorsese Has Withdrawn from Social Realismnew
The concert itself -- and by extension, the film -- is a hollow spectacle; it's a celebration of fame, not music as artistic expression.
New York Press |
Armond White |
04-03-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light
'Meet the Browns' is a Woeful Setbacknew
Tyler Perry's primitive film style is no less arrogant than Michael Mann's slickness, but the addition of earnestness and gospel-gangster homilies makes the lack of technique especially offensive. The appalling thing about Meet the Browns is that Perry writes and directs as if his audience had never seen a movie.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-27-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Meet the Browns, Tyler Perry
'Stop-Loss' Is Merely a Respectable Effortnew
Stop-Loss judges its Texas veterans in terms taken from Vietnam-era dissent. The director doesn't exactly rise to the occasion for national unity, but at least her final image of Brandon/Phillippe doesn't sink into fashionable cynicism.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-27-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Kimberly Peirce, Stop-Loss
Jack of All Tradesnew
Marianne Faithfull gets men -- and audiences -- off as a sex worker with suitably soft hands.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
03-20-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Irina Palm, Sam Garbarski
Asia Minornew
Boarding Gate drags its heart through the muck, going nowhere.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-20-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Boarding Gate, Olivier Assayas
Musical Manquenew
Christophe Honore's mumblecore mess misses the mark — but not without trying.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-20-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Christophe Honore, Love Songs
Imagination Nationnew
A Dr. Seuss adaptation that doesn't scare the kiddies.
New York Press |
Jerry Portwood |
03-13-2008 |
Reviews
Land of the Lostnew
Roland Emmerich still thinks big -- if he thinks at all.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 10,000 B.C., Roland Emmerich
Serial Abusenew
Michael Haneke claims modern sophistication but proves he's a sadistic fraud in an American adaptation of his own film.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Funny Games, Michael Haneke
Nobody Loves a Nobodynew
If David Lynch remade Taxi Driver with equal doses of Eraserhead and The Elephant Man, the result might look something like the drab existential loneliness of Ronald Bronstein's Frownland.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Frownland, Ronald Bronstein
Yuppie Fictionnew
While David Gordon Green once exemplified the essence of independent filmmaking with his 2000 debut George Washington, his new film Snow Angels shows he has since fallen victim to indie film conventions.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Poor Man's Gamenew
Don't be fooled into thinking Stephen Chow's film, a tribute to Spielberg's E.T., is kid stuff
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: CJ7, Stephen Chow
