AltWeeklies Wire
Pure Post-Postpunk for Then People
You may very well be able to judge a record by its smiling bohemians gathered-'round-a-campfire cover.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Feathers
Stark Raving Madrigal
This is more Seeger than Dylan, more purist than progressive.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Pol Vault
The movie, for all its gleeful violence, also packs a social conscience.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: District B13, Pierre Morel
All Hams on Deck
This is a lame imitation of American action movies right down to the line "You and I -- we're the same."
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Kwak Kyung-taek, Typhoon
Sit a Spell
This is squirmily funny.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jay Duplass, The Puffy Chair
His Finest Hour
The movie means to emphasize the banality of the man's fate, and it does that job a little too well.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Overlord, Stuart Cooper
Blockbuster
This is a relaxed tribute to a famous friend, but there are moments that point in the untaken direction of a more interesting film.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Adjust the Facts
Maybe it will inspire a few people to trade in their SUVs, but the inconvenient truth is that this film is likely to do more for Gore's political profile than for the soon-to-be-submerged residents of West Bengal.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
I, Jonathan
Art Brut is totally smart, totally stoopid, or both.
Washington City Paper |
Shannon Zimmerman |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Art Brut, Bang Bang Rock & Roll
The Simian Line
This sounds as if it's coming to you live from a boom box located at the far end of the local tube station.
Washington City Paper |
Shannon Zimmerman |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Field Music
The Lady Punishes
Is there any difference between justice and revenge?
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lady Vengeance, Park Chan-wook
Not Subtle
The film's rhetorical excesses will make you long for the one quality that both the film and the former mayor lack: nuance.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Giuliani Time, Kevin Keating
Flense With Benefits
All of this high-concept clutter just emphasizes that Barney has yet to learn how to use cinema to create illusions (or perhaps just doesn't care to).
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
The Man With the Olden Gun
Hillcoat wavers between gripping and ponderous.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Hillcoat, The Proposition
Add Eh to X
And you thought V for Vendetta was heavy-handed.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
