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An Impressive Debutnew
Chinese filmmaker Xiao Jiang's extended flashback is about two cinema-crazed kids coming of age amid the communist revolution of the early 1970s.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Electric Shadows, Xiao Jiang
L.A. Womannew
In The Closer, Kyra Sedgewick is a little lady in the City of Angels.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
06-12-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Too Many Cooksnew
If a film has two credited writers, that’s not necessarily a red flag -- but three can be a little suspect.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Donald Petrie, Just My Luck
A Ludicrous Updatenew
The only way to make this wholly unnecessary remake palatable would have been to up the camp factor into the red zone.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Poseidon, Wolfgang Petersen
Fun Companynew
In the best Looney Tunes tradition, the humans in Pixar's newest are all self-interested idiots and the animals only surrender their natural moral high ground when they start trying to act like us.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
Why the Press Blackout?new
The shielding of this unspectacular but hardly disastrous comedy from critics shows that the studios can no longer distinguish between a good bad movie and a bad bad movie.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Zucker, Scary Movie 4
Humor is On-Targetnew
There are as many honest laughs in Chester's wild, queer romcom as there were in Wedding Crashers.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Adam & Steve, Craig Chester
An Outlaw Manifestonew
The famously chaste Michael Douglas reaches deep into his craft to portray a bigamist in a progressively preposterous Beltway thriller he'll one day remember as only a slightly superior career option to Basic Instinct 2.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Clark Johnson, The Sentinel
Magenta-State Movienew
Distasteful though it may sound, there's strong comedic possibility in grafting suicide-bomber politics onto the warbling self-promotion of the American Idol era.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Dreamz, Paul Weltz
Shock and AWWWWnew
Its basis in historical fact doesn't preclude Joyeux Noel from being a wish-fulfillment fantasy for our war-torn times.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christian Carion, Joyeux Noel
Dizzoner the Mayornew
Keep telling yourself: It's really happening in America.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Curry, Street Fight
Intentionally Comatosenew
Fernando Eimbcke's new film captures Mexico City apartment dwellers in black-and-white.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-13-2006 |
Reviews
The Wildnew
The word "generic" is too specific for Disney's latest slab of stillborn computer animation.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Wild, Steve Williams
Uber the Topnew
This Holocaust melodrama spins a grabbily manipulative story without stopping to wonder if it isn't in poor taste.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Daly, The Aryan Couple
Tar Nationnew
Being a smoker is a lot like being a tobacco-industry lobbyist -- we both lie, and we both rationalize.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
