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Love Hurts in Heartbreaking Filmnew
The film suggests a marriage of Robert Altman's early work, with gallivanting but rich character studies, and the penetrating view of marriage and loneliness in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Forty Shades of Blue
Film's Look at War Forgoes Politics for Psychologynew
Despite the film's enormous empathy for the Marines and its engrossing technical proficiency, Jarhead's ambivalence keeps it from carrying out a clearly defined mission.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jarhead, Sam Mendes
Sequel Taints Your Memory of First Filmnew
Despite reuniting Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and director Martin Campbell, The Legend of Zorro proves so sloppy, silly and over-acted that the signature "Z" should stand for "Zero."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
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Actors Hawk Shallow Goods in Filmnew
The mopey, exceptionally shallow Shopgirl most often suggests is the sleazy politics of a Pretty Woman directed at the New Yorker crowd.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
Midlife Crisis Turns Film Partly Cloudynew
Frequently running to the crowd-pleasing Hollywood formula, the director and the screenwriter have ambitions to make the character's midlife crisis into a pointed statement about the hollowness of American values. The film seldom proves as profound as it thinks it is, but you appreciate its attempt to be serious.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Asian Directors Join Forces For Filmnew
In a singular example of transnational artistic cooperation, cult filmmakers from Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan come together with the shared goal of messing with their audience's heads and turning their stomachs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-27-2005 |
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Film An Uneven But Rich Tapestrynew
Though Nine Lives' intent is not always clear and certain vignettes yield fewer rewards than others, the film ends on a transcendent high note, and gives a sense that in a reckoning of our own mortality and the short, precious time we have here, we are all truly connected.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nine Lives, Rodrigo García
Actress Gets Down and Dirtynew
The film begins on a downbeat note and only spirals deeper into the muck, though it's engrossing, socially relevant mud-boggling all the way.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Sprawling Film Navigates Two Livesnew
The director seems determined to squeeze every life lesson, every artistic idea he's ever had into his rich, sprawling melodrama, which lasts two-and-a-half hours but doesn't dawdle for a second.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Arnaud Desplechin, Kings and Queen
Thriller Genre Conventions Mar Film's Deeper Meaningnew
Stay suggests the director's desire to interweave the moral and psychological complexities of an art film with some of the flash of an old-fashioned bone-chiller.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
Outside-the-Box Biopic Goes Deepnew
This director's second film is a morally complex and incisive look at not only the literary significance of In Cold Blood, but a penetrating observation of the devil's pact made between writers and their subjects.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
A Yuppie Couple's Misplaced Valuesnew
The love story, corporate spoof and family/funeral material never hang together in this film, and instead Cameron Crowe falls back on long close-ups of pretty actors looking at the camera.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Film Dumbs Down Bounty Hunter's Lifenew
In the right hands, heists make compelling films, and Domino Harvey seems a ripe subject for a psychological study. But director Tony Scott seems not just disinterested, but actively opposed to narrative clarity or exploring human nature.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
Flicks Recalls the Golden Age of Watchdog Journalismnew
George Clooney, the son of newscaster Nick Clooney, composes a kind of love letter to the "greatest generation" of telejournalists.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-13-2005 |
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Film Ties Racist Legacy to the Here and Nownew
A film that implies the complicity of other people in addition to the two who were accused in the death of Emmett Till inspired the U.S. Justice Department to reopen the case while the documentary was still a work-in-progress.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Keith Beauchamp |
10-13-2005 |
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