AltWeeklies Wire
Dear Focus Features, I Want to Lick Your Facenew
Ang Lee's Lust, Caution gets a NC-17 rating.
San Antonio Current |
Ashley Lindstrom |
09-05-2007 |
Movies
Tags: Ang Lee, Lust, Caution
Where Is the Love?new
Brokeback Mountain perfectly captures our ambivalence about marriage -- gay and straight.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Riveting Romancenew
Heath Ledger's stunning performance leads a beautiful film that lives up to all the hype.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Unhappy Trails
Brokeback Mountain develops the quality of a mournful fable, transcending its own awkward passages and didactic limitations.
Swing Your Pardnernew
Brokeback Mountain is the perfect date movie for straight guys.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-04-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Where the Queer and the Antelope Play
A love story in which you can't feel the love might sound like a dismal failure, but in Brokeback Mountain's case, it ain't.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
'Pokes Peeknew
Figuring, no doubt correctly, that more people will identify with loss than with gay lust, Lee gets the icky parts over quickly. Not only is it the love that dare not speak its name, it doesn’t speak at all.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
12-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Western Weepienew
The beautifully wrought film is a tragic love story (not a "gay cowboy movie") that’s defined by its staggering heartbreak.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Film Challenges Masculine Mythosnew
At its core, the heartbreaking film is a necessary re-evaluation of the myths of masculine stoicism and emotional remove we hold dear in the Western, but also in life.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Love as Revolutionnew
In Brokeback Mountain, the explosion of pent-up sexual desire and repression between the two main characters, equal parts mountain brawl and synergistic lovemaking, is likely to become the fuck heard 'round the world.
Willamette Week |
David Walker |
12-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Homo on the Rangenew
This romantic tragedy about a pair of lean, wind-burned cowpokes who secretly live to poke each other flies in the face of everything that most people in Casper or Riverton or Laramie think about the West, and about themselves.
