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'The Unforeseen' is a Mezmorizing Doc on Development and the Environmentnew
The Unforeseen centers on the ambitions of one developer, Gary Bradley, and those who would oppose his will in Austin, Texas. Dunn merges her findings with a cinematic style that alternates between impressionistic, cinematic poetry and solid, straight-ahead uses of narrative and interview.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff |
05-30-2008 |
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'The Strangers' Offers No Kindness to Liv Tyler and Scott Speedmannew
If Kristen (Tyler) and James (Speedman) listened to their first instinct, we wouldn't have the sleek, stripped down new thriller The Strangers, the movie that accomplishes everything that Michael Haneke tried to do with his sadistic hostage-takers in Funny Games earlier this year.
New York Press |
Mark Peikert |
05-29-2008 |
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Tags: The Strangers, Bryan Bertino
Intelligent Steroid Doc Sees Both Sides of the Issuenew
Without endorsing use of the drug, Chris Bell, who's a bodybuilder himself, dives into the heated debates surrounding the maligned practice and finds something pretty damn close to an even-handed portrait, if not a fair and balanced one.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
05-29-2008 |
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'The Foot Fist Way' Shows the Way of the Idiotnew
It's Napoleon Dynamite meets Hot Fuzz set in the world of martial arts.
New York Press |
Armond White |
05-29-2008 |
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The Incest of 'Savage Grace' Knocks Julianne Moore from Her Gay Cinema Thronenew
Moore plays a woman who is the target of her gay son's frustrations in Savage Grace -- the story of Barbara Baekeland, the unbalanced wealthy socialite who led her son to incest and murder in 1972.
New York Press |
Armond White |
05-29-2008 |
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The 'Sex and the City' Movie isn't Egregious, It's Worsenew
Like that bottle of whiskey stereotypical newspaper editors keep in their desk drawer, Carrie Bradshaw is the Barbie doll recessed in the handbag of contemporary white-collar women -- she fortified their gaudiest Cinderella dreams through weekly televised teasings of possibility.
New York Press |
Armond White |
05-29-2008 |
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The Incredible Imagery of 'The Fall'new
A story told by a paralyzed stuntman to an injured girl makes for one of the most inventive films in recent memory.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
05-29-2008 |
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Tags: The Fall, Tarsem Singh
'Flight of the Red Balloon' Takes a Languid Strollnew
The lovely but languid film presents such commonplace activities, level emotions, and long, leisurely takes that it's perfect for mellowing out after a stressful day or a sensory-overload film like Speed Racer.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-29-2008 |
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'The Fall': Beautifully Blandnew
Tarsem's latest lacks substance but it sure does look pretty
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-29-2008 |
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'Standard Operating Procedure' and 'Body of War' Give Soldiers a Voicenew
The testimony of soldiers and veterans is invariably an Iraq war documentary's greatest strength.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-29-2008 |
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Good Intentions Can't Save 'The Children of Huang Shi' from a Bad Scriptnew
One gets the sense of the Chinese government looking over the script with a magnifying lens. The commissars are less likely to be embarrassed by the way this film scrubs up the murderous politics of the war era than they ought to be embarrassed by the script.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
05-29-2008 |
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Your Home is Your Castle? Tell it to 'The Strangers'new
If The Strangers is merely a home invasion movie, it is a home-invasion movie in the sense that The Birds is -- what happens is punishment for humans who have lost faith in each other.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
05-29-2008 |
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Tags: Bryan Bentino, The Strangers
'Surfwise' Asks If Blood is Thicker Than Seawaternew
At the film's center is the patriarch, Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz, an octogenarian who lived a fairly typical early life -- two unsuccessful marriages, an unsatisfying medical practice fueled by a Stanford education -- and lived only to make his way to the beach to go surfing.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
05-28-2008 |
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'Son of Rambow' is Slightly Off Targetnew
Son of Rambow is an exceptionally earnest film about a blossoming, sweet friendship founded as much on loss as movie love. But it's hard not to long for more in a film that tries hard, but continually misses the mark.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
05-28-2008 |
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Tags: Garth Jennings, Son of Rambow
'The Unknown Woman' Struggles to Hold on to Her Humanitynew
One of the unexpected byproducts of the economically disastrous Soviet collapse was the massive export of mainly unwitting prostitutes from formerly socialist republics, a theme rarely shown as poignantly as in Giuseppe Tornatore's latest feature.
The Georgia Straight |
Mark Harris |
05-27-2008 |
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