AltWeeklies Wire
Sorry, Charlienew
Combining elements of Rushmore and Ferris Bueller's Day Off as well as the illicit-entrepreneur plot of Risky Business, Charlie Bartlett suffers greatly by comparison to these films.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Charlie Bartlett, Jon Poll
Lying Lownew
A joke-laden, quirky shoot-out, In Bruges is not.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
Eraserheadnew
Like a runaway satellite or a shaggy transvestite, Be Kind Rewind is a confusion of messages and signals, few of which hit their mark.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Michel Gondry, Be Kind Rewind
Fun With Ferrellnew
Semi-Pro is better than most comedies, but that's not saying much.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Kent Alterman, Semi-Pro
Expect the Expectednew
City of Men is almost tolerable, if you go in with really, really low expectations.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: City of Men, Paulo Morelli
Nobody Loves a Nobodynew
If David Lynch remade Taxi Driver with equal doses of Eraserhead and The Elephant Man, the result might look something like the drab existential loneliness of Ronald Bronstein's Frownland.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Frownland, Ronald Bronstein
Yuppie Fictionnew
While David Gordon Green once exemplified the essence of independent filmmaking with his 2000 debut George Washington, his new film Snow Angels shows he has since fallen victim to indie film conventions.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: David Gordon Green, Snow Angels
Poor Man's Gamenew
Don't be fooled into thinking Stephen Chow's film, a tribute to Spielberg's E.T., is kid stuff
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: CJ7, Stephen Chow
Dirty Old Man Voyeurismnew
Gus Van Sant still fetishizes skater boys with his stylized images of alienation.
New York Press |
Armond White |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
'Taxi to the Dark Side': Too High a Farenew
Alex Gibney pulls the hood off of America's use of torture.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Emiliano Garcia-Sarnoff |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Alex Gibney, Taxi to the Dark Side
'Semi-Pro' is Semi-Stupidnew
Will Ferrell has arrived in that rarified dimension of comedy that Arnold Schwarzenegger reached in action flicks 20 years ago, in which the titles of his films are mere filler below the star's name.
Arkansas Times |
Sam Eifling |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Kent Alterman, Semi-Pro
'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day' & 'Let's Get Lost': Bursting to Fixnew
Frances McDormand's heroine lands into high society; Chet Baker falls from grace.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-06-2008 |
Reviews
Not Replicant. Repli CAN.new
Ridley Scott's most enduring movie is his least mantastic.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Heistnew
The Bank Job is better than Jason Statham's other, dumb movies.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
03-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Roger Donaldson, The Bank Job
Self-rockualizationnew
Girls Rock! is a scream. Fortunately, it's also a good movie.
Willamette Week |
Amy McCullough |
03-05-2008 |
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