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Check-out Timenew
Simple-minded but sweet, this is an old-age tribute that doesn't press as hard on your gag reflex as The World's Fastest Indian.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Diary of a Mad Frenchwomannew
This film follows a story arc that, depending on one's perspective, is either a quaint relic of an alien culture or flat-out insane.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Frederic Fonteyne, Gilles' Wife
The Whole World is Watchingnew
Cache has every ingredient for art-house insufferability -- it's about upper-class Parisians, for starters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché
Bonfire of Inanitiesnew
Gotta hand it to Julianne Moore -- she's turned in a piece of overacting even the Oscars would be embarrassed to honor.
Orlando Weekly |
Steven Schneider |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
Most Unnecessary Remake?new
This familiar Stranger exhibits not a smidgen of awareness that its premise has been ripped off 500 times and parodied in three Scream movies.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon West, When a Stranger Calls
The Pink Panthernew
Steve Martin's dreaded riff on Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau comes off like a Saturday Night Live skit from the late 1970s, when audiences showed up nicely toasted and a guest host could coast on the same wild and crazy schtick week after week.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Shawn Levy, The Pink Panther
A Commercial Contrivancenew
Don't expect the same kind of conservative backlash that has accompanied that other gay film currently in theaters -- this film offers nothing that will shake up our social mores.
Orlando Weekly |
John Thomason |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
Shanghai Anxietynew
The final collaboration between Ismail Merchant and James Ivory isn't their absolute best effort, but as swan songs go, it's still a sight more auspicious than the last-ever Simpson-Bruckheimer picture.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Cheap Thrills, Cheap Throwsnew
David Redmon's remarkable film, which won the Grand Jury Prize for documentaries at the 2005 Florida Film Festival, takes a look at the dark side of Mardi Gras.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Sheperd |
02-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
A Reality-Battered Psychenew
Forget that it's, like, the 1,264th documentary about the Iraq situation and you'll thank yourself at the end of Occupation: Dreamland.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-02-2006 |
Reviews
The Necessity of Violence?new
Paradise Now renders its twin protagonists' countdown to martyrdom as a suspense story that keeps reminding us of the parallels between terrorism and mass entertainment.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
2 Fast 2 Fatuousnew
Sir Anthony Hopkins portrays Burt Munro, an aged New Zealander who traveled all the way to the Bonneville Salt Flats in the 1960s to see what kind of speeds his vintage Indian motorcycle could handle.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-02-2006 |
Reviews
Show Businessnew
Mrs. Henderson Presents is a bit of theatrical history that relies on recurrent full-frontal nudity but which you can still take your mom and dad to.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-02-2006 |
Reviews
Head of the Classnew
Loggerheads is an exquisite ensemble drama set in three North Carolina communities.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
01-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Loggerheads, Tim Kirkman
Unloading Baynew
In Keane, Lodge Kerrigan confirms something every commuter dreads: Transportation stations may be gateways to home and security, but they can also be places where people become hopelessly lost.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Keane, Lodge Kerrigan
