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'Bottle Shock': Stick a Cork in Itnew
French oenological hauteur is shattered in this true but dully told story about the international debut of Napa Valley's wines.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
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Tags: Randall Miller, Bottle Shock
Putting the Buzz in Buzz Aldrennew
The animated Fly Me to the Moon is a simple parable of spirited can-do-ism, in which a trio of young houseflies semiaccidentally tags along on the Apollo 11 moonshot.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stassen, Fly Me to the Moon
'Henry Poole': Finding God in the Cracksnew
Director Mark Pellington has turned soft with this corny, redemptive, and/or inspirational tale that stars Luke Wilson.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-14-2008 |
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'The Last Mistress': Controversy Becomes Hernew
The latest titillation from French provocatrice Catherine Breillat is a period piece starring the ever-alluring Asia Argento.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-14-2008 |
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'Clone Wars' Introduces Girl Powernew
The only important things in this new animated epic are that viewers be blown away by the endless and pointless laser battles and that girl power comes into its own.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Take a Passnew
Take, with a very good performance by Minnie Driver, is a dreadfully misguided movie whose story of redemption is utterly irredeemable.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Oliver, Take
'Tropic Thunder': Apocalypse, and How!new
Instead of entering the jungle to find the heart of darkness, Ben Stiller goes in to take aim at the Achilles heel of Hollywood: its utter pomposity and self-importance.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-14-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder
'Vicky Cristina Barcelona': Girls in Every Portnew
Woody Allen's newest is by no means a bad film, but it’s irrefutable evidence that Allen has aged – or cloistered – himself into irrelevance.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-14-2008 |
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'Vicky Cristina Barcelona': Justify Their Lovenew
Woody Allen takes his affairs abroad again.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-14-2008 |
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More Star Wars?new
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the franchise’s new animated feature, doesn't come within light years of the original entry's glory, but it's a welcome relief from the last three.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
08-13-2008 |
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'Tropic Thunder' Wasn't the Expected Rambo-style Satirenew
What I got, and what I should have expected, was a rather well-produced and spectacle-driven broad action-comedy that should satisfy anyone not expecting a wealth of subtle or subversive humor. Duh, right?
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
08-13-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Ben Stiller, Tropic Thunder
Woody Allen's European Sex Romp is a Shocking Triumphnew
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a breezy triumph for Allen, not so much a return to form as a discovery of new perspective. It's the delight of an old jester discovering that his best material -- youth, and its illusions -- is inexhaustible.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-13-2008 |
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'Tropic Thunder': When Satire Goes Badnew
Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Tom Cruise all play parodies of recognizable Hollywood types—the lunkhead, the coke fiend and the unscrupulous executive—but who exactly is Tom Cruise in the position to lampoon? This is a satire of movie-industry excess constructed by the very people made fat and happy by that industry.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
08-13-2008 |
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'Sputnik Mania' Takes a Hot Look at the Cold Warnew
Two decades ago, when communism in most territories ended with a whimper, the Cold War era officially died with it. But David Hoffman's documentary Sputnik Mania turns the Way Back Machine to that long moment when it was overwhelmingly, virulently alive.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
08-13-2008 |
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Ben Stiller Abandons Subtle Satire for Broad Gags in 'Tropic Thunder'
Stiller isn't ego-less enough to really let Hollywood have it, and he's too much of a clown to get sophisticated about it. Tropic Thunder provides random goofiness without an identity, or much of a point.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-11-2008 |
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