AltWeeklies Wire
Man's Best Co-Star
This film is quick-moving and riveting, but you may as well tune out when the movie starts cutting back and forth between the humans, safely back in America, and the dogs, left to fend for themselves in increasingly perilous conditions.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eight Below, Frank Marshall
What In Carnation?
By shaking the hornet's nest of American race relations, von Trier has guaranteed that at least some viewers will find Manderlay injurious.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-17-2006 |
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Fables of the Deconstruction
The point of the original novel is never to get to the point, which this movie respects as best it can.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-17-2006 |
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Wait for the Fire Next Timenew
This Richard Price story about simmering racial tension that boils over during the course of a police investigation is scattershot and erratic.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
It's a Dog's Worldnew
We smell penguins, even though Eight Below's animals are really a pack of sled dogs in a dandy new man-and-dog movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eight Below, Frank Marshall
Invitation to the Dancenew
This is a majestic movie about a once celebrated ballet company that changed the face of modern dance.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
02-16-2006 |
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Bonfire of Inanitiesnew
Gotta hand it to Julianne Moore -- she's turned in a piece of overacting even the Oscars would be embarrassed to honor.
Orlando Weekly |
Steven Schneider |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
'Me Decade' Hedonismnew
Joseph F. Lovett's unimaginatively filmed talkathon fails to find meaning in the sexual cornucopia that was Manhattan.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-16-2006 |
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Unplugging the War Machinenew
Why We Fight shows clear merit in these convoluted, double-talking times, but thanks to the polarization of the American public, it's probably damned to preach to the choir.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight
Racial Tensions Crashnew
In the spirit of social issue films of the 1970s, Freedomland addresses a hot contemporary topic but nearly fumbles it, as if dazzled by celebrity and a desire to oversimplify its story.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
Senior Momentsnew
Firewall and The Pink Panther both star leading men who are arguably too old to be doing what they're doing -- cultural icons whose sell-by date passed a while ago.
New York Press |
Matt Zoller Seitz |
02-16-2006 |
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Q&Anew
Jarecki's powerful documentary revisits Ike's admonitions.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
02-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eugene Jarecki, Why We Fight
Pink With Promisenew
The new Panther is mediocre, but far better than other post-Peter Sellers efforts.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Shawn Levy, The Pink Panther
Endearing Formulanew
Except for its Sapphic twist, Imagine Me and You is a by-the-book romantic comedy.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
A Stalk to Remembernew
A family unwillingly has someone to watch over them in this psychological thriller.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
02-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché
