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Wings Over Americanew
In nearly its every frame, Batman Begins is modern-day mythmaking of the grandest scale. And its only substantial failing is that it doesn't mind telling you so itself.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
Desert of Despairnew
Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi's film captures the life of a cursed band of war orphans in a culture fraught with political, religious and ethnic clashes.
Orlando Weekly |
Lindy T. Shepherd |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bahman Ghobadi, Turtles Can Fly
Clowns Go All Outnew
In this urban documentary, South Central L.A. rival groups of "clowns," dressed in whiteface, take to the streets to perform furious dances that are the utmost in personal and cultural expression.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David LaChapelle, Rize
Bewitchednew
This letdown film chronicles the featherweight sparring/foreplay of two characters any sensible adult would be hard-pressed to care about.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched
Apocalyptic Terrainnew
Zombie godfather Romero peels off yet another worthy amalgam of the two essential elements in his oeuvre: an obvious yet spot-on central metaphor and a creative approach to bodies going splat.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
War of the Worldsnew
Hollywood can officially flush its hopes for a summer recovery down the toilet with the release of this shockingly unimaginative remake.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Saving Facenew
The 2005 Florida Film Festival introduced audiences to this cross-cultural dramedy, in which a Chinese-American surgeon has to open her home to her middle-aged, newly pregnant mother.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Alice Wu, Saving Face
Tough Lovenew
The typical boy-meets-girl romantic comedy is given an upgrade when it's suicide attempts that bring two people together. They marry each other to get away, and -- surprise, surprise -- fall in love.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Fatih Akin, Head-On
Pitching Wunew
Director Alice Wu talks about opening the doors that were shut in her face while making Saving Face
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alice Wu, Saving Face
Not-So-Fantastic Fournew
The entire picture is a vulgar parade of hackwork FX, extreme sports, potty humor, bad WJRR rock and cheesecake shots.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tim Story, Fantastic Four
Dark Waternew
This well-made remake of Hideo Nakata's Japanese ghost story unfortunately shares too many essential details with a whole host of not-so-well-made movies: embattled but valiant mom, endangered kid, mournful dead girl and water, water everywhere.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dark Water, Walter Salles
Wedding Crashers Crashesnew
A dick-swingin' standout in a field of flaccid mainstream comedies, the hoped-for runaway hit Wedding Crashers actually has enough honest laughs to fill a 90-minute picture. Too bad it runs closer to two hours.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Roman Holler Daynew
Whether or not you consider yourself in the market for an Italian Mean Girls with a stronger political slant, filmmaker Paolo Virzì has taken the concept about halfway down the road to genuine revelation.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Before a Fallnew
Just as certain music critics will go gaga over the most pedestrian pop if it's sung through a mouthful of bad British teeth, so is the mediocre psychodrama My Summer of Love.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Cheeseburger in Purgatorynew
Maybe you can't fight city hall and maybe you can, but the rousing documentary McLibel proves that you can at least stand up to Mayor McCheese and live to talk about it.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Franny Armstrong, McLibel
