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Cluelessnew
Historically, Nancy Drew may be the best teen detective around, but in this new screen incarnation, she is definitely no spy kid.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Fleming, Nancy Drew
Darkness Fallsnew
The second in a Russian science-fiction trilogy is a fantastic sight to behold, but don't try explaining the plot.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Day Watch, Timur Bekmambetov
Love Is Blindnew
A documentary portrait of a mutually obsessive, interdependent, tabloid-fodder marriage that's going on 30 years.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Crazy Love, Dan Klores
Blood Bathsnew
Director Eli Roth goes too far in Hostel: Part II.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Eli Roth, Hostel: Part II
I Pee on Dead Peoplenew
The funny European slasher flick is not getting the attention it deserves.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Smith, Severance
Sicko Sequelnew
Roth made a good-looking movie with a stellar cast on a low budget, but it's no fun to watch.
Reno News & Review |
Bob Grimm |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Eli Roth, Hostel Part II
We Didn't Need Another Oceannew
Steven Soderbergh rehashes his least imaginative work.
New York Press |
Armond White |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
The Sinking Feelingnew
So, you've got source material from Raymond Carver ... you've got Laura Linney ... you've got Gabriel Byrne. What you haven't got is a comedy.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jindabyne, Ray Lawrence
Besmirching Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Missing Plot
Hopes get dashed for creating a fresh Nancy Drew movie franchise (there were four such films made in the late ‘30s) with this less-than-perfunctory filmic updatE of the spitfire sleuth from the revered children’s book series.
Tags: Andrew Fleming, Nancy Drew
'Paprika': An Animated Scattershot Clusterfuck
If tweaking under the influence of a determinedly Japanese mindset sounds like a good way to substitute a cinematic drug experience for the real thing, then go right ahead to Satoshi Kon's overflowing excess.
Tags: Paprika, Satoshi Kon
'Brand Upon The Brain!': A Fitting Evolutionary Step for Maddin
Guy Maddin is a kind of lo-fi David Lynch.
Tags: Brand upon the Brain!, Guy Maddin
'Fido': Zombie Fever
This black comedy subscribes to the adage that any genre can be improved with the addition of zombies, with a capital Z.
Tags: Andrew Currie, Fido
'Once': Predictable Story, Whiny Songs
Music video masquerades as a heart-on-sleeve narrative featuring a charismatic, if musically limited and redundant, Glen Hansard of the Irish rock band the Frames.
Tags: John Carney, Once
'Jindabyne': Interesting Acting, Limited Material
Overwrought thriller-as-social-drama, loosely based on Raymond Carver’s short story, "So Much Water So Close to Home," slides around a morally slippery narrative area of four fishermen discovering a corpse.
Tags: Jindabyne, Ray Lawrence
'Crazy Love': A Fascinating Documentary
If you don't know the tale of Burt and Linda Pugach, then you're out of the loop on one of the biggest running tabloid stories in New York history.
Tags: Crazy Love, Dan Klores
