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Networked Overnew

Film critics are mad as hell, and they'll just have to take it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
03-01-2006 |
Movies
March of the Oscars
Come Sunday, the stars will line up in Hollywood for the annual Oscar bash, which is shaping up as a head-on collision between Brokeback Mountain and the dark-horse Crash.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
03-01-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
Bitching About the Oscarsnew
Fewer and fewer people are willing to leave their home to see a movie, so why should they even care about the Oscars on TV, or what critics think?
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo and Brian Miller |
03-01-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
If I Ran Hollywood …

As the Oscars approach, a handful of writers say what they would do if they were behind the wheel of the Hummer that is Hollywood.
The Inlander |
Various |
02-27-2006 |
Movies
Tags: The Oscars
'Crash' From the Pastnew
Despite being the only Best Picture nominee set in the present, Crash already feels old.
Birmingham Weekly |
Hugh Merrill |
02-27-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Oscars
Tiger Beatnew
After the Sundance short-shrift, American independent films get their due in Rotterdam.
The Village Voice |
Dennis Lim |
02-22-2006 |
Movies
Battles in Berlinnew
At the Berlin International Film Festival, George Clooney is treated like royalty, but the serious consideration is given to European and Asian directors and their bizarre films.
NOW Magazine |
Cameron Bailey |
02-16-2006 |
Movies
Top Gun Complexnew
Fighter Pilot: Operation Red Flag, a Boeing-funded IMAX film, softens us up for more military spending -- but Why We Fight paints a different picture.
NOW Magazine |
Kevin Temple |
02-16-2006 |
Movies
The Distributor Who Wasn't Therenew
Los Angeles filmmaker Brian Flemming would rather do it himself.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Leigh Morris |
02-16-2006 |
Movies
After Paulinenew
Where are the women film critics?
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
02-10-2006 |
Movies
The Original Kings of Cinemanew
Looking at early African-American filmmakers through today's eyes.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
02-10-2006 |
Movies
Factasianew
Evidence reigns supreme in the new documentary boom.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
02-08-2006 |
Movies
Hustle and Snownew
At Sundance, the proving ground just got a lot more slippery.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
The Movie and the Realitynew
The documentary paints a visceral and disturbing cinematic portrait of our criminal-justice system in action -- yet if anything, After Innocence understates the problem.
Boston Phoenix |
Harvey Silverglate |
02-03-2006 |
Movies
Tags: After Innocence, Jessica Sanders
Not Quite a Movementnew
Slamdance features tenderness, anger, and a very steep slope.
Austin Chronicle |
Spencer Parsons |
02-03-2006 |
Movies