AltWeeklies Wire
Walking Around the Issue
The Walkmen's sweater-rock is too polite.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
05-19-2006 |
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Tags: The Walkmen, A Hundred Miles Off
Foucault's Pabulum
His Americana may be bland, but it goes down smooth.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ghost Repeater, Jeffrey Foucault
Rich and Fatuous
Coke hasn't ruined Mike Skinner's career, but it's blown his latest album.
Washington City Paper |
Andrew Beaujon |
05-19-2006 |
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Luck Be a Lohan Tonight
Luck is brainlessly fun.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-19-2006 |
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Tags: Donald Petrie, Just My Luck
The Buena Vista Socialist Club
Garcia's zeal for the project doesn't translate to passion on the screen.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Andy Garcia, The Lost City
War and Misremembrance
Rambo was wrong.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Zeiger, Sir! No Sir!
Cracking Up the Code
Howard's film is a soft mush of the book's ideas.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ron Howard, The Da Vinci Code
Tradition and Subtraction
Like the best folk, old and new, this is the perfect intersection of this world and another.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
05-15-2006 |
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Pleased to Meat You
Ritter is proudly carrying the Meat Loaf legacy into the new century.
Washington City Paper |
Mario Correa |
05-15-2006 |
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Tags: Josh Ritter, The Animal Years
Hippy Hippy Fake
The Black Dove never gets past conjury and into natural magic.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
05-15-2006 |
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Resistance is Futile
This series of anecdotes gradually accumulates a devastating power.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-15-2006 |
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Mewl Britannia
Africa's colonial period may be over, but the Western tradition of making pretentious, Anglocentric, overlong movies about the continent lives on.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard E. Grant, Wah-Wah
Goals to Newcastle
All slo-mo, Britpop, and blood-pumping, Goal! is nothing less -- or more -- than Armageddon on the soccer pitch.
Washington City Paper |
Huan Hsu |
05-15-2006 |
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Statutory Rope
Valley takes itself altogether too seriously, even when dealing in giggle-eliciting cliches.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-15-2006 |
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Tags: David Jacobson, Down in the Valley
All the World's a Sage
Whatever the source of Art School Confidential's bile, this portrait of the young man as an artist could use less concept and more craft.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-15-2006 |
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