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Bad Girls Are Even Betternew

Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 10-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Tony Scott, Domino

Stuck Inside of Nowherenew

Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.

Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov | 10-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown

Taking Issue

North Country’s stylish filmmaking can’t overcome emphasis on a societal ill.

Salt Lake City Weekly | Scott Renshaw | 10-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Niki Caro, North Country

Light and Darknew

An amusing road trip through Ukraine leads to epiphanies of history and memory in actor Liev Schreiber's only partially illuminating adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 10-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Everything Is Illuminated, Liev Schreiber

Mass Appealnew

An R&B singer rediscovers his roots in this faith-based drama that successfully captures the ecstatic experience of gospel performance despite having no other narrative momentum.

Austin Chronicle | Marrit Ingman | 10-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Rob Hardy, The Gospel

In this amazingly candid documentary, soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division talk about their lives and their mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, just weeks before the full strength of the Sunni insurgency is unleashed.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 10-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Occupation: Dreamland, Ian Olds; Garrett Scott

Seek and Ye Shall Findnew

Kirk Davis’ slick film, adapted from the stories of Christopher Cook, plunges into Texas' small-town religious mores and comes up with some insightful revelations in this character-driven pastiche.

Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov | 10-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Kirk Davis, Screen Door Jesus

The New American Nightmarenew

This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.

Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov | 10-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Joseph Castelo, The War Within

9021Woah!

Self-consciously cool hyphenated heist hybrid Domino is utterly and consistently ridiculous, just one of the main reasons for the film's relentless awesome-ness.

Columbus Alive | J. Caleb Mozzocco | 10-13-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Tony Scott, Domino

A Yuppie Couple's Misplaced Valuesnew

The love story, corporate spoof and family/funeral material never hang together in this film, and instead Cameron Crowe falls back on long close-ups of pretty actors looking at the camera.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 10-13-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown

Film Dumbs Down Bounty Hunter's Lifenew

In the right hands, heists make compelling films, and Domino Harvey seems a ripe subject for a psychological study. But director Tony Scott seems not just disinterested, but actively opposed to narrative clarity or exploring human nature.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 10-13-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Tony Scott, Domino

Flicks Recalls the Golden Age of Watchdog Journalismnew

George Clooney, the son of newscaster Nick Clooney, composes a kind of love letter to the "greatest generation" of telejournalists.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 10-13-2005 | Reviews

Tags: George Clooney, Good Night, and Good Luck

Film Ties Racist Legacy to the Here and Nownew

A film that implies the complicity of other people in addition to the two who were accused in the death of Emmett Till inspired the U.S. Justice Department to reopen the case while the documentary was still a work-in-progress.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Keith Beauchamp | 10-13-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Keith Beauchamp, Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till