AltWeeklies Wire
Lady Wrestlers Recall Brawlsnew
Ruth Leitman's illuminating, flinty and sometimes downright depressing documentary follows a subculture of battling dames.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Jane Fonda Sparkles in Film That Betrays Real Womennew
The film underscores two regressive ideas: first, that modern career women are neurotic, unhappy, competitive, underfed bitches; second, that aspiring trophy wives are the more content, well-adjusted ones.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Luketic, Monster-in-Law
Rather Fun Housenew
House of Wax, the debut feature from Spanish-born music video director Jaume Collet-Serra, is not a light-weight, fluffy teen horror flick like most "scary" films of late have been.
Jackson Free Press |
Paul Dearing |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: House of Wax, Jaume Collet-Serra
Another Brick in the Wallnew
If the dismally morose Daybreak is any indication, the flavor of Swedish misery is remarkably similar to the kind we do here in America -- only colder and with less natural light.
Club Lifenew
A dreamy mood movie, 3-Iron is at times deliciously sensual, creepily somnolent, whimsically spiritual, and disturbingly violent. But it is never quite coherent.
Monster-in-Law Causes Critic to Search His Degenerate Soulnew
In this light sitcom-style flick, J Lo rolls up her chinchilla-trimmed sleeves to grapple with Hanoi Jane, while Wanda Sykes dislocates her vagina.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
05-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Luketic, Monster-in-Law
We're No Angelsnew
Much of Crash, an L.A.-stories portmanteau about the suffocating embrace of racism, is hard to watch, harder still to listen to. It reminds us there's bad to be found in good people, and evil lurking even in the righteous.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-10-2005 |
Reviews
Bad Profile
There's a reason Mindhunters sat on a studio shelf for three years.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Renny Harlin, Mindhunters
Afraid of the Darth
Revenge of the Sith sucks less than Episodes I and II, but is that enough?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-09-2005 |
Reviews
Beyond Good and Diva
Monster-in-Law tries to earn comic mileage out of women behaving badly.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Luketic, Monster-in-Law
Post-Commie Fun With Hungarian Subway Employeesnew
With tight cinematography and black humor, this Hungarian film reveals the secret lives of subway hall monitors.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nimród Antal, Kontroll
Everything Is Illuminatednew
The paths of a seemingly unconnected, multicultural group of Los Angelenos cross in the most compelling American movie to come around in a long while.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Crash, Paul Haggis
Lots of Waxy Build-upnew
This remake of the 1953 horror classic is mostly rote but occasionally creepy, with some putatively clever jibes at a certain high-profile hotel heiress.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: House of Wax, Jaume Collet-Serra
What Goes Around Comes Aroundnew
Nominally the story of a 13-year-old girl who longs for a baby, Todd Solondz's latest is provocative, wicked, even bleakly funny, and ultimately empty.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz
Once and Future Kingdomsnew
Ridley Scott's Crusades epic is a historical spectacle on the order of Gladiator and a dissection of war, as gritty and illuminating as Black Hawk Down, that takes flight when it becomes a canvas for ideas and ideologies in action.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
05-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven
