AltWeeklies Wire
Solo Release Shares Qualities With Filmnew
Tension and mystery lurk beneath this album's suspiciously calm surface. Alto-saxist David Sanborn adds a tough, slightly skewed quality to his musical love affairs, usually submerged under a lipstick-styled sheen.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Closer, David Sanborn
The New Romanticsnew
Lying, cheating, swapping, memory erasing, and attempted homicide -- these days, date movies are not for the faint of heart.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Lynn Rapoport |
02-09-2005 |
Movies
Baby, It's Cold Inside the Theaternew
Despite the coming of Kinsey and company, sex was paltry, ominous, and perverse at the movies.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Small Movies Came Up Big in 2004new
New Times critics pick as their top film of the year Alexander Payne's Sideways, which juxtaposes a wine freak's brittle angst with his friend's doofy recklessness.
Painful Entanglementsnew
Closer alarmingly shows how relationships can turn into disasters.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
12-10-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Closer
Closer to Finenew
Mike Nichols' new film might be taken for outright soap opera -- or soft-core porn -- were it not for the sophisticated gleam of its well-heeled London desperadoes and its viciously dazzling dialogue.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
12-06-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Closer
Everyone's a Player in the Game of Lovenew
Love’s fractured fairy tale, writ small and petty and almost too real to bear without flinching.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-03-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Closer
Closer Offers a Stylish, Superficial Take on Modern Relationshipsnew
Closer is all very saucy and sharp-witted, but it isn't exactly a startling, incisive read on modern relationships. An NPR-styled date film, it's meant to provoke moderate uneasiness and enough heated conversation to last through a drink and an appetizer.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-02-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Closer
Four to Tangonew
Two couples, multiple infidelities, and countless lies: The math doesn't add up in Mike Nichols' latest male-female equation.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Nichols, Closer
