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Greasepaint and Suffering
My Chemical Romance still excels at pop-punk, but everything about The Black Parade calls for more imagination than it displays here.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Richardson |
11-03-2006 |
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Gettin' Jiggy With It
Saw III nearly ruins its improbable superiority over the franchise’s predecessors with a stupefying amount of denouement gab.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
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Tags: Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw III
Where's the Fire?
Catch a Fire relies heavily on Bob Marley tunes and South African “freedom songs” to cover its lack of righteous passion.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
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Tags: Catch a Fire, Phillip Noyce
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
The essence of La Moustache is its inexplicability.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Emmanuel Carrére, La Moustache
Link Globally
Babel sacrifices its atmosphere in a quest to tabulate human misunderstanding and score obvious political points.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-03-2006 |
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Tags: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel
Driving Miss Crazy
Starring Harry Potter's Rupert Grint, this is like a TV series that tries, and fails, to reinvent a former cast member of a popular sitcom.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Driving Lessons, Jeremy Brock
New Yak City
Cohen makes tired American jokes funny again, and the fact that he is able to use this vehicle to expose the open hate that still exists here is just a surprising bonus.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-03-2006 |
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Plucked Outnew
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game would be a dreadful work of fiction, a Disneyfied, feel-good failure. But Michael Lewis writes nonfiction, and hilarity, for the most part, doesn’t ensue.
Washington City Paper |
Ryan Grim |
10-27-2006 |
Nonfiction
Wedding Crushersnew
More well-meaning than well-made, writer-director Ali Selim's Sweet Land is a modestly engaging bit of Americana.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
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Tags: Ali Selim, Sweet Land
Play Deadnew
This movie simulates an assassination with impressive verisimilitude but misses an essential quality of Americans’ relationship with their president: its sheer absurdity.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
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Mommie Drearestnew
Running With Scissors proceeds as a series of skits, way too cool and ironic to be disturbing, no matter how aberrant the latest development.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running With Scissors, Ryan Murphy
Stray Heirsnew
Tideland is like a Wyeth painting...on smack.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry Gilliam, Tideland
You Talkin' To Me?new
A higher power was clearly not guiding the screenwriter.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-27-2006 |
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Selling Soulsnew
Undeniably if sometimes unsettlingly beautiful, but the narrative unveils somewhat confusingly.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-27-2006 |
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What It Takes
This album charges right into unfiltered Southern soul, and its target audience may need a few listens to digest it.
Washington City Paper |
Michael J. West |
10-20-2006 |
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