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Law & Order: Special Exorcism Unit
Is The Exorcism of Emily Rose as good as The Exorcist? No. Is it occasionally as scary? Yes.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Trashy Beach Reading -- in Convenient Movie Form
It wasn't meant to be a romantic comedy, but this overheated romance gets so overwrought it's often laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: asylum, David Mackenzie
Discovering Secretsnew
Junebug amazes with its insightful portrayals of people.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Junebug, Phil Morrison
Bear of a Documentarynew
Timothy Treadwell's odd life among bears gets dissected memorably by Werner Herzog.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Werner Herzog, Grizzly Man
Film Has Been in Time Warp Itselfnew
It's hard to hate a film with red-faced dinosaur baboons, but to rescue A Sound of Thunder, we'd need to go back in time and give the director some special effects that don't suck.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Arab-Western Relations Play Out in the Bedroomnew
For all her film's self-awareness and moments of soft-core romantic ecstasy, Director Sally Potter is also profoundly insightful about the various tensions that define our lives, which her two mismatched lovers so beautifully illustrate.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Sally Potter, Yes
Inability to Frighten Is Least of Film's Problemsnew
A superficially slick production and overqualified cast will certainly earn The Exorcism of Emily Rose more attention than the finished product deserves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-08-2005 |
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Film Offers Image of Pleasantly Different Youth Rebellionnew
Despite its tendency to lapse into preachiness, The Edukators is a bracing, much-needed vision of a world where ideas, equality and justice are paramount. And that alone makes it an entertainment worth paying for.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hans Weingartner, The Edukators
No Exitnew
Theme-park workers can't escape, and the director, too, seems stuck in a rut.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
09-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The World, Jia Zhang-ke
Inspiration for the Strongnew
Released in the same year as Citizen Kane (1941), this account of an English professor who falls hard for two unavailable men is actually the superior film.
Riverfront Times |
Blind Phyllis |
09-06-2005 |
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Aw Nutsnew
This is a thriller sans kick, a snapshot of obsession that's less about the risks one takes for true love than it is about the dumb chances one takes when stifled and bored and game for any sort of excitement.
Miami New Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
09-05-2005 |
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Monsters Needednew
The Cave is doomed by a lame cast and a lack of special-effects.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Cave, Bruce Hunt
Some Things Are Best Left Undiscoverednew
A musician and an actress circle and sniff, and generally run through every cliché in the why-can’t-we-be-together playbook.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Meiert Avis, Undiscovered
Guess Who’s Coming to The OC With a Lethal Weapon 2?new
Nick Cannon from Drumline plays a smart-aleck LAPD bicycle cop in this movie awash in clichés.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Marcos Siega, Underclassman
Another Cruel Monthnew
November, starring Courteney Cox, is a dense, dark head-trip of a movie that seems like the bastard offspring of Memento and Mullholland Dr.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Harrison, November
