AltWeeklies Wire
Express Lame
10 Items or Less wants to be an offbeat character study but forgets to study its characters.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: 10 Items or Less, Brad Silberling
Childish Destiny
Call it Antichrist Superstar.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Note to Self
With Fugazi's "indefinite hiatus" stretching to its fifth year, bassist Joe Lally had to get a new job. He's becoming a frontman -- the hard way.
Washington City Paper |
Andrew Beaujon |
12-01-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Lally
Tilted Artnew
A needlessly dry work, never really generating the level of interest warranted by the lively and often lurid subject matter, Visual Shock reads like a text for a college survey course.
Washington City Paper |
Adam Mazmanian |
11-10-2006 |
Nonfiction
Plucking Brilliantnew
Ys is Joanna Newsom's coming out as a capital-E eccentric.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Joanna Newsom, Ys
Identity Crisisnew
Even a solid cast can't do much with a script whose dialogue is occasionally torturous and whose story goes nowhere.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Simon Brand, unknown
Deadpan Dead Mannew
The winning touches outnumber the missteps to make a story worth telling.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Pointless and Shootnew
Iraq in Fragments is meatiest, politically speaking, in its center, yet Longley merely points and shoots instead of providing much context.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Iraq in Fragments, James Longley
Sniff and Scratchnew
Flashy, like Miami Vice the series; bloated like Miami Vice the movie.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Billy Corben, Cocaine Cowboys
A Weak Vintagenew
If A Good Year demonstrates that director Scott loves French wine, film, and women, it also shows that -- cinematically, at least -- he doesn't know what to do about it.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, A Good Year
Heaven Harm Usnew
An appalling but essential film.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Amy Berg, Deliver Us From Evil
Say What?
More angry youngsters than ever before will be able to understand what the Blood Brothers have to say -- which according to the lyrics sheet, may not be much.
Washington City Paper |
Aaron Leitko |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Blood Brothers, Young Machetes
Bearable Lightness
When an album's title is its only major misstep, well, that's something to be happy about.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Under Pressure
Banks doesn’t exactly make good on his promise to "make" some of the fine producers he's unearthed.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lloyd Banks, Rotten Apple
The Mook of Love
Saturday Night Wrist is no disaster, but it definitely shows what happens when a talented frontman decides that it’s time to assuage his own boredom.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Deftones, Saturday Night Wrist
