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Inside Jokenew

The hilarious new film, The Aristocrats, proves, our hesitance to offend sometimes robs humor of its vitality.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  08-23-2005  |  Reviews

The Life Lethargicnew

As intriguing as Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Broken Flowers, might be, it nevertheless feels like something we've all seen too many times before.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  08-16-2005  |  Reviews

State of Fearnew

Kate Hudson and a supporting cast of stereotypes sleepwalk through The Skeleton Key as British director Iain Softley continues the time-honored tradition of turning Louisiana into a sticky, icky gumbo of cliches.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  08-16-2005  |  Reviews

Irreconcilable Similaritiesnew

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie face off nicely in Doug Liman's latest, which (sometimes clumsily) tries to juggle the genres of romantic comedy and action-adventure with little atonal moments of dramatic wistfulness.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  07-01-2005  |  Reviews

Image Makernew

With his feature-film debut, fashion/glamour photographer and video director David LaChapelle takes a look at a subculture that, like the vogue-ing drag queens of "Paris Is Burning," blossoms out of desperation and a need for survival.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  07-01-2005  |  Reviews

Pet Soundsnew

No matter how hard Unleashed director Louis Letterier and star Jet Li try, they're working with atonal material, and can't have it both ways.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  05-25-2005  |  Reviews

Culture Clashnew

Ousmane Sembene deftly tackles a squeamish subject with his topical film, Moolaade.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  05-25-2005  |  Reviews

Dance Fevernew

Stephen Chow's love of cinema floods the scenes of Kung Fu Hustle like so many kicks and chops, moving almost chronologically through a history of not only martial-arts movies but movies in general.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  04-27-2005  |  Reviews

Forest for the Treesnew

Through all of its obvious symbolism, thinly sketched characters, portentous filmmaking technique and vague narrative, writer-director Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman remains an affecting piece of work.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  01-27-2005  |  Reviews

Amazing Gracenew

Grace under pressure is one of the key themes to Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, which chronicles Paul Rusesabagina's miraculous efforts in 1994 that saved the lives of some 1,200 people.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  01-12-2005  |  Reviews

War-Torn and Lovelornnew

Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest is what a sweeping epic of love and war should be: beautiful and ugly all at once, dramatic on a grand, yet thoroughly calibrated, scale.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  01-04-2005  |  Reviews

The Top 10 in a Year of Solid Filmmakingnew

While there were no real masterpieces in 2004, there were enough solid films to make two serviceable top-10 lists of equal value.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  12-28-2004  |  Reviews

Ocean Wonderlandnew

Can a filmmaker show artistic growth from one film to the next without necessarily having made a "better" film? When it comes to Wes Anderson's fourth film, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, that's a tough question to answer -- but one that deserves asking.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  12-28-2004  |  Reviews

Family Albumnew

The photograph collectors depicted in the new documentary Other People's Pictures seem to be trying to recapture the human touch.
Gambit  |  David Lee Simmons  |  10-25-2004  |  Reviews

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