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'Moscow, Belgium' Succeeds by Revealing the Diversity of the Everydaynew

Moscow, Belgium won't be the best movie you'll see this year, and it doesn't aim to change the world or make a lot of money or destroy communism. What it does aim to do is demonstrate how watching ordinary people can be completely compelling, and also, how ordinary people don't have a standard form.

Tucson Weekly | James DiGiovanna | 02-20-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Moscow, drama films, Christophe Van Rompaey, Moscow, Belgium, Belgium

Steve Martin's Career Drops to Its All-Time Lownew

It's maddening to watch somebody as gifted and funny as Steve Martin stumbling about in trash like The Pink Panther 2.

Tucson Weekly | Bob Grimm | 02-12-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Steve Martin, comedy movies, Harald Zwart, The Pink Panther 2

One Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Stands Outnew

Yes, the Japanese entry has a French title. You know why? Because fuck you and your antique sense of national boundaries, that's why. It's also, by far, the best of the lot, and if it doesn't win the Oscar, it'll just be the conclusion to an argument whose premises include Paul Blart: Mall Cop and the candidacy of Sarah Palin.

Tucson Weekly | James DiGiovanna | 02-12-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Oscars, short films, animated films, Kunio Kato, La Maison en Petits Cubes

The Remake of a Fantastic South Korean Fright Flick Does Not Live Up to the Originalnew

The Uninvited is relatively useless to those who watched and loved the original, but audiences new to the story might get a few good chills out of it.

Tucson Weekly | Bob Grimm | 02-05-2009 | Reviews

Tags: horror movies, Charles and Thomas Guard, The Uninvited

Animated Documentary 'Waltz With Bashir' Works Well on Every Levelnew

Waltz With Bashir is about the process of coming to remember, and how we should present those memories. In the way it acknowledges its own myopia and self-concern, it's one of the most honest and innovative films of the millennium.

Tucson Weekly | James DiGiovanna | 02-05-2009 | Reviews

Tags: documentaries, animated films, Ari Folman, Waltz With Bashir

The 'Underworld' Prequel Drives a Stake Into the Franchisenew

Lots of incomprehensible action, kooky color contact lenses and some horribly stilted line deliveries make this the year's first really, really bad movie.

Tucson Weekly | Bob Grimm | 02-05-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Patrick Tatopoulos, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, fantasy movies

Dazzling Design and Solid Storytelling Propel the Animated 'Azur and Asmar'new

Movie reviewers like to use the word "dazzling" to describe things like Steven Spielberg's scrotum and the Treaty of Westphalia, but here it is indicative of a visual spectacle that so absorbs the eye that one cannot look away.

Tucson Weekly | James DiGiovanna | 02-05-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Michel Ocelot, animated films, Azur and Asmar

Blood and Boredom: 'My Bloody Valentine 3-D'new

The first horror flick with the new 3-D technology looks cool, but the movie itself stinks.

Tucson Weekly | Bob Grimm | 01-22-2009 | Reviews

Tags: My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Patrick Lussier, 3-D films, slasher movies

Past Their Prime: Mickey Rourke and Marisa Tomei Shine in 'The Wrestler'new

On the strength of the filming technique, the performances and the thoughtfulness of the wrestling sequences, The Wrestler earned a place on the best-of lists of many pretentious and snobbish film critics. In spite of that, it's actually entertaining and engrossing.

Tucson Weekly | James DiGiovanna | 01-22-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Darren Aronofsky, Marisa Tomei, mickey rourke, The Wrestler