AltWeeklies Wire
No Exit in the Sex Traffic Lanenew
This drama about international sex trafficking is tremendously sincere but also brutal.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: trade, Marco Kreuzpaintner
'Bamako' Puts World Bank on Trialnew
The film is a devastating and eloquent indictment of the world's careless disregard for an entire continent.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Abderrahmane Sissako, Bamako
'The Banquet' Serves Shakespeare with a Chinese Twistnew
Openly borrowing from two of The Bard's darkest plays, Hamlet and Macbeth, The Banquet gluts itself on vicarious human passions.
Shepherd Express |
Aisha Motlani |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Banquet, Xiaogang Feng
The Internet Haunts in 'Tell No One'new
Director Guillaume Canet explores the dark side of the Internet, with its potential for stripping users of their privacy and of transmitting unwanted messages.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Guillaume Canet, Tell No One
Andrew Dominik's Jesse James Epic Digs Deepernew
Beyond the obvious reveal of the film's title, most of the major chronological turning points are either skipped in their entirety or divulged before the fact in narration culled from Hansen's elegiac prose, forcing audiences to abandon any traditional expectation of narrative linearity in favor of existential reflection.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Wade Major |
09-28-2007 |
Reviews
'Across the Universe': Ticket to Ridenew
Julie Taymor's Across the Universe celebrates Beatlemania.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Across the Universe, Julie Taymor
Love Among the Ruinsnew
King of California and Feast of Love embrace cliches.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
'In the Valley of Elah': War Without Endnew
Sorrow tempers rage in latest wave of Iraq war films.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah
'Feast of Love' Swaps Partners Like it's Going Out of Stylenew
Director Robert Benton emphasizes the physical side of love to pose a question: Is love just the disguise that biology wears?
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Feast of Love, Robert Benton
'Into the Wid,' Out with the Feelingnew
Sean Penn's overwrought direction elbows the feeling right out of adventure story Into the Wild.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
'Trade' Has Vague Basis at Bestnew
There are more than 300 million sex slaves in the United States, and this number is all the more alarming because I just made it up. Kinda like the "1,000,000" being trafficked across borders (ours? all international borders?) cited at the end of the film Trade.
Metro Silicon Valley |
Richard von Busack |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: trade, Marco Kreuzpaintner
'The Kingdom' Offers a Smackdownnew
It seems like a Hollywood blockbuster, but Peter Berg's latest induces a bit of shaming about cycles of hate and violence that we must be fully cognizant of if we're ever to break them.
Charleston City Paper |
Maryann Johanson |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Peter Berg, The Kingdom
Yuckiest Film Evernew
After getting off to an entertaining start, Good Luck Chuck enters gross-out hell.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Good Luck Chuck, Mark Helfrich
Nipples and Ass-Kickingnew
Hot chicks and Sony products dominate the post-apocalyptic world in Resident Evil: Extinction.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-27-2007 |
Reviews
'Across the Universe' isn't Audacious Enoughnew
Director Julie Taymor attempts to take the entire decade of the 1960s, fold it flat and slide it into the record sleeve of a Beatles LP.
Tags: Across the Universe, Julie Taymor
