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Stretching the Pointnew
The hype is technically true: Match Point is Woody Allen's best movie in years, but only because he's already had practice making it.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
01-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
A Sukkot Fablenew
A rare glimpse into Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox community, the morality drama Ushpizin sets forth the role of ritual in a strange and fascinating environment.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
A Lowballernew
One day, Ryan Reynolds will land in a film that makes full use of his talent for conveying quiet, wide-eyed mischievousness.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Just Friends, Roger Kumble
Survival of the Speciesnew
Tanzania's Lake Victoria is teeming with Nile perch, enormous fish that make their way to the dining tables of millions of eaters per day.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Darwin's Nightmare, Hubert Sauper
Slush Fundnew
It's perfectly possible to enjoy The Ice Harvest, just as soon as you recognize it as Harold Ramis's willful attempt to thwart every expectation he's built up in his career as a cineplex funster.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Harold Ramis, The Ice Harvest
Slender Vittlesnew
You couldn't cram another gimmick into Nine Lives if you doubled its running time and made the screen twice as high.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nine Lives, Rodrigo García
The Old Blacknew
Years from now, cinema-studies teachers will refer to Walk the Line as a textbook example of what a biopic looks like when it gets everything right.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Dial M for Menswearnew
Mere minutes into its opening credits, the heated black comedy El Crimen Perfecto has its title reshuffled into El Crimen Ferpecto. And that Spanish spoonerism says everything about the film.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Gleeful Weaponnew
At a stage when most successful screenwriters have settled into a grateful pursuit of the lowest common denominator, it's a kick to see a scribe like Shane Black.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shane Black, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Alien-Busting Adventuresnew
Jon Favreau's sort-of-sequel to Jumanji is full of nonsense physics and missed opportunities, though it almost redeems itself via its realistically fractious portrayal of brothers forced into a playtime gone weirdly cosmic.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
Hip-Hop Hypocrisiesnew
Determined to star in his own 8 Mile, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson comes up a day late and a dollar short.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Another Adultery-Driven Adrian Lyne Knockoffnew
It's impossible to ignore what an unimpressive film has received the honor of being the first release from the newly formed Weinstein Co.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mikael Hafstrom, Derailed
Costume Dramanew
After umpteen film and TV translations, what reason can there be to take another whack at Pride and Prejudice?
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joe Wright, Pride & Prejudice
Lying Downnew
Distributor ThinkFilm raised so much of a stink about its Where the Truth Lies receiving an NC-17 rating that one had to assume the movie was some sort of crusading artistic statement.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
Department of Truthnew
Even when it's shot through with apology, a June-November romance like Shopgirl is full of unsavory implications.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
