AltWeeklies Wire
A History of Violins
A humane and humanizing look at the guts of the symphonic orchestra, this film is also a feast of sound.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
02-03-2006 |
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Life Isn't Beautiful
Does Fateless clear the bar already set by previous Holocaust accounts? Yes, but in a paradoxical way -- by pretending that the bar isn't there
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
02-03-2006 |
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Race to the Finish
It's weird that this story of love appears to be threaded with an undercurrent of hate.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-03-2006 |
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Feeble Attraction
Imagine this: that an all-consuming, 'til-death-do-us-part love affair gets under way in even less time than it takes the Brokeback boys to get it on.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-03-2006 |
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Shaggy-Corpse Storynew
The title of Tommy Lee Jones’s directorial debut gives fair warning of its weirdness.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
02-03-2006 |
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Fast Tonynew
As a Kiwi traveling to the Bonneville Salt Flats in hopes of setting the world's land-speed record, Anthony Hopkins projects more sex appeal than actors a third his age.
Boston Phoenix |
Brett Michel |
02-03-2006 |
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With Candor Comes Charmnew
Taking as your subject a sexual free-for-all might seem an exercise in excess, but in the case of this Joseph Lovett documentary, libido-on-display can serve as its own means for social change.
Boston Phoenix |
Colin Fleming |
02-03-2006 |
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Tags: Joseph Lovett, Gay Sex in the '70s
Ride Lonesomenew
Anthony Hopkins' great performance as Burt Munro, the real-life New Zealand codger and Indian motorcycle enthusiast who in 1967 set a land speed record that still stands today, is not enough to crash through this unabashedly sentimental wall of schmaltz.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
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Trial and Errornew
The system is found guilty in After Innocence, a documentary on wrongful convictions.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
02-03-2006 |
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Tags: After Innocence, Jessica Sanders
Landscaping the Romantic Comedynew
Think Bridget Jones' lovelorn but marriage-obsessed single woman, only make her a neat-freak, not a basket case, and a comely African-American, not a plumpish, pasty Brit in this genre-tweaking romantic comedy.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
02-03-2006 |
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Tags: Sanaa Hamri, Something New
The Remains of an Eranew
The final collaboration between director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is a gorgeous slice of Merchant/Ivoryisms that nevertheless fails to equal the team’s greatest works.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
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Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Populism Unbridlednew
This muckraking populist grab bag of a film isn't so much a documentary as it is a harried piece of grassroots agitprop.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-03-2006 |
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There's Nothing Like This Damenew
This staid British music-hall drama seems calculated to earn Judi Dench lots of award notices. Mission accomplished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
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Jazz Age Gone Wildenew
Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan is here set among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin' on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
02-03-2006 |
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Tags: A Good Woman, Mike Barker
Momma's Got the Same Old Bagnew
It's a shame to again witness Martin Lawrence squander his considerable comic talents under a fat suit and fake breasts in this shoddy sequel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-03-2006 |
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Tags: Big Momma's House, John Whitesell
