AltWeeklies Wire
Pool Party
This release further suggests that Shyamalan's simple, finely crafted breakout film will one day mark him as a one-hit wonder.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
07-21-2006 |
Reviews
Over the Counter Culture
Most of Clerks II's naughty bits seem as contrived as Clerks' seemed natural.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
07-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Clerks II, Kevin Smith
Boys Will Do Boys
Clerks II is equally self-centered as the first, even if Smith has moved on in several significant ways.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Clerks II, Kevin Smith
Body Politics
Lif's latest is thematically scattershot and packed with easy targets.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Sound the Repeat
We've seen American soldiers in Iraq up close many times before, and The War Tapes' night-vision-goggles view of the locals remains as fuzzy as ever.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Deborah Scranton, The War Tapes
Turban Myth
Fundamentalism assumes many forms, even documentaries.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Candy is Dandy
Pretty much the whole point of Strangers With Candy is to fling as many un-PC punch lines as possible.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Dinello, Strangers With Candy
Par for the Corsair
Like the first Pirates, this one is a successful combination of breezy and blackhearted.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Nautical by Nature
All Machado's film lacks is a story that's even half as compelling as the rest of it.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lower City, Sergio Machado
Hot and Bothersome
Clark still doesn't trust his charismatic young discoveries to tell their own stories, which have to be better than the trashy fables he constructs for them.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Larry Clark, Wassup Rockers
Petal to the Metal
Patton still hasn't quite lost the surfer swagger that made him a pioneer of the worst genre ever to chest-beat its way out of the Golden State: rap-metal.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Peeping Tom
Blood Fret & Tears
Brett Sparks' bipolar disorder is to the Handsome Family's music what champagne is to Lawrence Welk.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Istanbul and Constantinople
This film is lively and meticulously constructed.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Product Runway
Prada is pretty much your standard recombinant chick flick.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Remotely Entertaining
The really funny thing about this movie is, magic remote excepted, how surprisingly successful it is in reflecting the ups and downs of everyday life.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Click, Frank Coraci
