AltWeeklies Wire
Jonathan Larson's Legacy Lives Onnew
Rent builds to a touching funeral and a superb reprise of two of the best songs, but rather than go out on a strong note, the film retains the musical's melodramatic final portion, including a ridiculous death scene that, on a movie screen, feels like having a billboard yell at you for five minutes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Columbus, Rent
Film Offers Little Insight Into Johnny Cashnew
As much as the film traces Johnny Cash's personal decline, the script uncovers few complexities in his character and loses sight of him as a potent artist.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Horse & Scissorsnew
Bryant "HairKutt" Johnson's attempt to quit heroin cold-turkey is the subject of an hourlong documentary that elicits tears, cheers and laughs.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Scholle, Best Social Documentary at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, Curtis Elliott and Ben Scholle, Great Smoky Mountains, HairKutt, Maurice Reese Bradley, St. Louis International Film Festival., top documentary feature honors at Cinema St. Louis' Independent Filmmaker Showcase
Game Onnew
With his follow-up to Elf, director Jon Favreau sticks with family-friendly filmmaking, this time delivering a bang-up version of Chris Van Allsburg's bestselling children's book Zathura.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
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 |
Reviews
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 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Martin, Shopgirl
Hustle and Flownew
Damn the national consensus that Florida is a freak state -- we're just special. And one of the things that make us so special is the flow of natural waters through our unique geography of underground caverns.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
10-21-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
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
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
Manufacturing Dissentnew
George Clooney's sophomore directorial effort subtly attacks a press corps controlled by conglomerates.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
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 |
Reviews
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 |
Reviews
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
Cyber Maniacsnew
A new form of interactive media debuts with ManiaTV!
Boulder Weekly |
Daniel Boniface |
09-02-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
