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A Tough Habit to Breaknew
The plot realistically mimics a teenager's adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker
Faulty Mathnew
As with many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness loses something in its translation to celluloid.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: John Madden, Proof
Let's Twist Againnew
Some may doubt the need to once more bring Dickens's tale to the screen, but Polanski's deft adaptation proves that there's still life in that well-worn story of a boy who beats the odds.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski
In a Family Waynew
Even if these Shoes are not perfectly stitched, the fit is nevertheless comfortable and the look is polished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes
Kicking It Aroundnew
The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
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Charming Reunionnew
In Her Shoes allows Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine to thrive.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes
Too Punk for the Punksnew
We Jam Econo gives '80s legends The Minutemen the praise they deserve.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-06-2005 |
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Almost Therenew
Thumbsucker lives up to half its title.
Baltimore City Paper |
Eric Allen Hatch |
10-06-2005 |
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If The Shoe Fits...
Chick lit to chick flick adaptation almost can't help condescending, but at least its leads manage to keep their dignity.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-06-2005 |
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Animation Film Tweaks Horror Clichesnew
If not as clever as you'd hope, Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit amusingly tweaks horror flick clichés while constructing some brilliant slapstick set pieces.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-06-2005 |
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Perceptive Film Ponders Society's Illsnew
Though a little heavy on the wispy indie-rock expression of melancholia, Thumbsucker embraces a wide range of people and their problems, leaving you with a lasting warm glow.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker
Quirky Road Trip Takes Melancholy Turnnew
Rather than aiming to please, the film expects a certain patience on the viewer's part as it ambles and slowly shifts from an often forced quirkiness to a bone-deep melancholy. That change of tack proves worth waiting for.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-06-2005 |
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Domestic Disturbancenew
In "Violence," Cronenberg has created a hellish masterpiece.
Jackson Free Press |
Paul Dearing |
10-05-2005 |
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Better Than Chicken Run or Corpse Bridenew
Helena Bonham Carter also stars in the other, infinitely more technically advanced stop-motion animation hit, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, but she's a snore in that, a scream in Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
10-05-2005 |
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Sense and Shagabilitynew
Can the smart sister and the hot sister ever learn to get along? Even a few guys may get caught up in their dilemma.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-05-2005 |
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Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes
