AltWeeklies Wire
Gods and Generals
Lucy Hughes-Hallett argues that we find heroes when we need them. She doesn't consider what may be our special sorrow: both to need heroes and to lack them.
Washington City Paper |
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow |
12-02-2005 |
Nonfiction
Perched on the Edge
Though Americans aren't directly indicted in Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper's latest documentary, its portrayal of an unbalanced global economy arguably puts all First World nations in the hot seat.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-02-2005 |
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Gushing Over the Ush
Don't bother with the nonsensical Romeo and Juliet-ish plot. All you need to know about this movie can be gleaned from the tag line "Everyone wants a piece of his action," which floats above an image of Usher Raymond dressed in a fly suit.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-02-2005 |
Reviews
Children of the Revelation
Machuca attempts to muffle any potential backlash by taking a boy's-eye view of American-backed state terrorism.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Standard Spelling
In these post-Thatcher times, the closest thing the British theater has to a welfare program is the Harry Potter movies.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Metaphysical Obsessions
Bee Season mucks around in stuff that no mainstream American entertainment--save, perhaps, the last few Madonna albums--has ever explored.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
The Shock Wears Off
The 72-minute film is about an hour's worth of Sarah Silverman's stand-up, padded with a weak story line that enables it to pass as a movie.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Cash on Delivery
Yes, kids, we have another Ray. Nearly to the letter, actually. But Joaquin Phoenix does Jaime Foxx one better by singing Johnny Cash's songs himself, a ridiculously risky move in portraying an icon whose voice was the thing. But damn if the boy doesn't pull it off.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-18-2005 |
Reviews
Gimme Trouble
Adult. is consciously trying to escape the dance floor.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
11-11-2005 |
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Give Blood
The quartet does a few cool things and does them as well as anybody with a U.K. address.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
11-11-2005 |
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Protocols of Zion
This is a rambling and inconclusive but intermittently incisive tour of neo-Nazis, radical Muslims, and other conspiracy-inclined types.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-11-2005 |
Reviews
Rec-Room Rambler
Hobart Smith knew that these sessions proved one thing: He shouldn't have waited so long to commit that banjo to tape.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Cherkis |
11-10-2005 |
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Aw, Shoot
For all its absurd complications, the plot of this film is ultimately unsurprising and not all that interesting.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2005 |
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Outsider Drama
Turning his multiplatinum Get Rich or Die Tryin' into a movie is a logical way for 50 Cent to expand his franchise, but that doesn't guarantee he can enlarge his abilities along with it.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Love in Space
Ultimately, though, this is a story about love -- with robots, reptilian monsters, and unfriendly spaceships that try to shoot the kids' home into oblivion.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-10-2005 |
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