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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

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.
The Pitch  |  Bill Gallo, Melissa Levine, Jean Oppenheimer, Luke Y. Thompson and Robert Wilonsky  |  12-27-2004  |  Reviews

Painful Entanglementsnew

Closer alarmingly shows how relationships can turn into disasters.
Tucson Weekly  |  Bob Grimm  |  12-10-2004  |  Reviews

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

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

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

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

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