AltWeeklies Wire
Waif, Waif, Don’t Tell Me
The story wanders in unexpected directions, but mostly Somersault just wanders.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Cate Shortland, Somersault
Australian for Leer
Not since Crash has a movie been so ruthlessly espaliered around a single theme.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Look Both Ways, Sarah Watt
Cruise Control
This is as brisk and artiness-free as a summer blockbuster should be.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Compassion Play
These days, peril doesn't necessarily have anything to do with empathy.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Cry the Beloved Country
Gitai presents a cunning mix of documentary-style filmmaking and minimalist theatricality.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Amos Gitai, Free Zone
Women's Rites
Water is too smitten with local color to render its widows' plight as universal.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: water, Deepa Mehta
Starved for Affection
Does anybody actually have holiday dinners as epically bad as the ones in Hollywood movies?
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Salvador Litvak, When Do We Eat?
Empty Promise
The Promise leaves us nothing but fancy costumes.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Chen Kaige, The Promise
Floor Routine
Stick It is an exercise in mediocrity.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jessica Bendinger, Stick It
Designer Cheap
La Mujer de Mi Hermano doesn't really care about anything besides chic modernity and good looks.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Country Crock
Squires' film is moustache-twirling, anvil-dropping, tie-the-girl-to-the-railroad-tracks cartoonish.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
05-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Crazy Like a Fox, Richard Squires
Variations on a Theme
Until we get a doom-metal disc that's as malignant as our doom-taunting age, Cisneros and Hakius' conference of doves will have to suffice.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Conference of the Birds, Om
The Terror of History
It's probably fair to suggest that both Eli Roth and Zombi would be nothing without the 70s.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Surface to Air, Zombi
Friend of a Friend of the Devil
"In all seriousness, one of the great archeological finds in our lifetime is the archive of Daniel Johnston."
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Straw Man
Feuerzeig's sober and intelligent documentary doesn't exploit the schizophrenic subject.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-28-2006 |
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