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Nicolas Cage Fares Well With Arms
The sardonic star of this gun-running Goodfellas helps maintain its manic momentum, but he can't save it all by himself.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-15-2005 |
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The Wanker Chroniclesnew
Saint Ralph quaintly captures teenage Catholic-school angst.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-15-2005 |
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Tags: Michael McGowan, Saint Ralph
Just Like Hell...But Worse
Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are better off dead in this rote rom com with a euthanasia twist.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-15-2005 |
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Three Segments Imagine Different Outcomes for Filmnew
November was shot on digital video, and with its eerie technological sputters and fishbowl moodiness of glum blue-green light, it manages to achieve Seven-like atmosphere on a surprisingly low budget.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-15-2005 |
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Tags: Greg Harrison, November
Undead Romantic Comedynew
The huggable stars and unusual plot twist deserve more than the thin script and flat jokes: The angels mostly frown on Just Like Heaven.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-15-2005 |
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Losing Their Waynew
The filmmakers' lack of self-consciousness in depicting Kumbh Mela, a spiritual journey that attracts millions, through a tourists' filter speaks volumes to their naiveté and distance from the event they so clearly long to honor.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-15-2005 |
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Call the Copsnew
What's truly galling about The Man is how its creators come from backgrounds that would certainly suggest they know better than to make such dreck.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-12-2005 |
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RomCom 101
Just Like Heaven serves as a case study for the romantic comedy formula.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-09-2005 |
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Tags: Mark Waters, Just Like Heaven
Love Interruptednew
At once tremendously dense and gossamer-thin, this period romance/sci-fi hybrid from Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai is a riot of sight and sound that has an irresistible, elemental pull.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-09-2005 |
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Tags: 2046, Wong Kar Wai
Growth of a Franchisenew
For all its gimmicky mayhem, Transporter 2 is an improvement over the original, completely setting aside such yawn-inducing cinematic standbys as a romantic interest and realism.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
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Tags: Louis Leterrier, Transporter 2
Sweet Revengenew
South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic revenge triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
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The Sound of No Hands Clappingnew
Abandoning any pretense of respect for the Ray Bradbury source material, this film manhandles the author’s delicacies into a lumbering and bewildered mess of grade-Z sci-fi clichés.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-09-2005 |
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Tags: A Sound of Thunder, Peter Hyams
Saying and Doingnew
Based on an eponymous 1996 erotic novel, Lila Says is the story of a French girl and an Arab boy who learns the difference between words and actions.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-09-2005 |
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Tags: Lila Says, Ziad Doueiri
Save Yourselfnew
Earnest and well-intentioned Dallas-based cast and crew have created a puzzling and inauthentic youth drama that promotes teenage sexual abstinence.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-09-2005 |
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Who's on Top?
An ass-obsessed buddy cop comedy is predictably crappy.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Les Mayfield, The Man
