AltWeeklies Wire
The Ice Storm
This film is as concerned with escape as it is with imprisonment.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
09-29-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gabrielle, Patrice Chereau
Perchance to Dreamnew
While you're waiting for the next Charlie Kaufman movie, here's The Science of Sleep.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
09-29-2006 |
Reviews
Underground Boston Undercover
Scorsese scores a stunner with The Departed.
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Nixon's Beatlemanianew
This documentary about Lennon's political activism and time spent in New York basks in the legend's presence but offers little new on the subject.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-28-2006 |
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Failure to Laughnew
Although it stars Billy Bob Thornton and Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder and is jam-packed with multi-talented comedians and stars, School for Scoundrels is just not funny.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
09-28-2006 |
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Hunting for Imaginationnew
The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor, but short on real storytelling, emotion, or characters.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
09-28-2006 |
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Fancy Footworknew
Jet Li's final martial-arts epic is fittingly peripatetic, finding the Hong Kong superstar ricocheting across the screen from action set-piece to emotional overload and back again.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ronny Yu, Jet Li's Fearless
Groundednew
This story of the Lafayette Escadrille squadron, who become the first U.S. fighter pilots, is surprisingly inert.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-28-2006 |
Reviews
A Long Night's Journeynew
William H. Macy stars in this film penned by David Mamet about one man's long night's journey of the soul.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Stuart Gordon, Edmond
A Load of Humornew
Jackass Number Two is the No. 1 box-office movie in America -- God help us.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jackass: Number Two, Jeff Tremaine
Innocence and Lustnew
Michel Gondry makes an almost-perfect movie about dreams.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-27-2006 |
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Killing the Kingnew
Too much, too hard leaves All the King’s Men in pieces.
LEO Weekly |
Joseph Grove |
09-25-2006 |
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'Haven' Is Boring and Confusingnew
The absurdly confusing plot is built upon a flashback device that's never fully realized and based around characters whose presence is never adequately explained.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Frank E. Flowers, Haven
British Mockumentary Relentless in Sarcasmnew
More beholden to The Office than Spinal Tap, Confetti puts three couples in the middle of a magazine's contest for "Most Unique Wedding."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Confetti, Debbie Isitt
Jet Li Bows Outnew
Touted as his last foray into martial-arts movies, Fearless is a Jet Li stunner.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
09-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ronny Yu, Jet Li's Fearless
