AltWeeklies Wire
Whachoo Say?
A pleasant enough tour d'horizon of the f-word.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: fuck, Steve Anderson
Candy's Too Dandy
It takes more than dirty hair and outbursts of blubbering to evoke the junkie life.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: candy, Neil Armfield
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!
The Nativity Story should have been left in the dark.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-01-2006 |
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Express Lame
10 Items or Less wants to be an offbeat character study but forgets to study its characters.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: 10 Items or Less, Brad Silberling
Childish Destiny
Call it Antichrist Superstar.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-01-2006 |
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An Excess of Good Sensenew
Despite Mirren's sensational performance, The Queen is sometimes as conservative in execution as the people it attempts to dramatize.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Frears, The Queen
Let There Be Lightnew
For beauty, for grief, for visual texture and a willingness to make such a strange, emotional, trippy film, Aronofsky deserves your attention.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
12-01-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darren Aronofsky, The Fountain
Horrors of Hypenew
For Your Consideration should get Oscar buzz itself.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
11-30-2006 |
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Hold Your Organs Closenew
Turistas is beautifully shot, well-paced and vaguely racist.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Stockwell, Turistas
Montezuma's Revengenew
Turistas is a surprisingly effective horror film with good acting and some breathless action.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: John Stockwell, Turistas
Get Thee to a Mangernew
Sadly, this familiar tale is presented with a yawn-inducing neutrality more reminiscent of a community-center Christmas pageant than an epic story of divine humanity.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
11-30-2006 |
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Last Tango in Haitinew
North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Heading South, Laurent Cantet
In the Beginning There Was the Wordnew
Like the very word this documentary examines, F*ck can be found all over the place.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: fuck, Steve Anderson
American Dreamersnew
This ensemble piece set in a rural mobile-home park has a solid emotional center despite some dramatic mood swings.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dreamland, Jason Matzner
Healing With Hopenew
An all-star cast portrays the regular folk wounded by history.
New York Press |
Armond White |
11-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bobby, Emilio Estevez
