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The Discovery Channel
Writer Alex Rose fills the movie with just enough humor and heartbreak to keep its feel-goodness from making you gag.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gaby Dellal, On a Clear Day
Demeans to an End
The movie stops being a raw but sympathetic portrait of a boy's traumatic upbringing and becomes simply raw.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-17-2006 |
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Down and Pout
Lonesome Jim is so right in its particulars, so sure in its tone, that you can almost skate over the hollowness at its center.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim
The Decline of the Western
But no matter how well-played, a string of scenes without narrative justification is a string of scenes.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Don't Come Knocking, Wim Wenders
Helluva Swingnew
Game 6 redeems Michael Keaton after he almost fouled out.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Home is Where the Plot Isnew
Lonesome Jim has plenty of company in the genre of homecoming films with quirky indie sensibilities.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim
Into the Setting Sunnew
Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders' movie is a peculiar but rewarding escape to the West.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Don't Come Knocking, Wim Wenders
Despite Unpleasantries, Heart Beats Truenew
Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of nonexistent teen author J.T. Leroy, this film is a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-14-2006 |
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Family Feudnew
Soap melodramatics masquerade as high art in this south-of-the-border drama about a love triangle and marital infidelity.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-14-2006 |
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Rhythm Nationnew
Documentary filmmaker Daniel Anker spent five years with the Philadelphia Orchestra as they toured, rehearsed, and waxed poetic about the purpose of music in their lives.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
Big Girls Don't Defynew
Comedian Mo’Nique’s first starring film vehicle suffers from a bad case of undernourishment.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nnegest Likké, Phat Girlz
Whatever Rocks Your Boatnew
This trite German tale of youthful angst and sexual confusion is fashioned in the form of a torpid, slow-moving softcore fantasy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Marco Kreuzpaintner, Summer Storm
In Old Zoo Yorknew
Despite its title, Disney's new animated film, The Wild, is about as pedestrian as you can get.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Spaz Williams, The Wild
Blowing Smokenew
The new film based on Christopher Buckley's decade-old novel of the same name is a cynically cancerous comedy.
Shepherd Express |
David Luhrssen |
04-14-2006 |
Reviews
An Uncommon Christmas Talenew
Christian Carion's unique World War I holiday story manages to to be moving without becoming maudlin.
