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Yogi Unbearable
Viewers who know something about India or religion will be able to salvage a few moments from Naked in Ashes, despite the filmmakers' failure to provide anything more than the flimsiest of contexts.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-06-2006 |
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'Burb Your Enthusiasm
This is the second movie in two months from the Weinstein Company to pack the same essential message: There comes a time when the innocent suburbanite must learn how to kill.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-06-2006 |
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The Life of Grime
Two recent compilations offer not only snapshots of the dark-horse scenes of U.K. grime and the Southern rap that's more old-school funk than crunk, but also rare examples of the cash-strapped hiphop lyricist.
Washington City Paper |
David Dunlap Jr. |
12-23-2005 |
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Race to the Finish
The book provides a useful catalog of American ingenuity in the cause of ethnic purity.
Washington City Paper |
Bell Clement |
12-23-2005 |
Nonfiction
Non-Special K
Johnny Knoxville made a name for himself by acting like a retard on Jackass, so consider The Ringer his comeuppance.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
12-23-2005 |
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Undercover Dick
Nobody should be surprised to see Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni get all manic on the big screen. So why doesn't Dean Parisot let his two leads have more fun with Fun With Dick & Jane?
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
12-23-2005 |
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The Schlong Goodbye
Easy to like, especially for its non-fairy-tale-ish take on achieving contentment.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-23-2005 |
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Sparkling Twit
Relentlessly loopy, the film aims to prove that, aside from the love of a wee lost boy for his mam, sass and sparkle conquer all.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-23-2005 |
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Mission Unconscionable
Of the directors who transformed Hollywood in the '70s, Steven Spielberg has made both the most successful and the most simplistic movies. At this point, the last thing anyone could have reasonably expected from him is a film that's not only serious but also complex.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-23-2005 |
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The Plot Thickens
It's a shame the film's postreunification milieu is unlikely to resonate as much with Americans. Zucker never gets too zany or too maudlin, and its petty characters could serve as stand-ins for just about anyone.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
12-19-2005 |
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Tags: Dani Levy, Go for Zucker
Stalin the Family
A Meet the Parents retread with the kind of giant, kooky-but-loving brood without which holiday comedies wouldn't exist, The Family Stone will have you slapping your forehead, not your knee.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
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Beyond Xanadu
The Keeper is earnest and likable, if a bit too stolid for anyone without a pre-existing interest in the subject.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-19-2005 |
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Pronounced Dead
Like The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha is a well-researched, if misguided, tribute to Japan's bad old days of patriarchy and strict social hierarchy.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-19-2005 |
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Where the Queer and the Antelope Play
A love story in which you can't feel the love might sound like a dismal failure, but in Brokeback Mountain's case, it ain't.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
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Cheeky Monkey
How did Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace's relatively simple story get stretched to such epic proportions? Well, the movie is first a smaller-scale Titanic, then a ballsier Jurassic Park -- and that's before the monkey business even gets going.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
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