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Caped Comebacknew
Holy box office! Batman Begins is one of the year's best!
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
Bothered and Bewildered
Why bury Will Ferrell’s comic brilliance just so the movie can be called Bewitched?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-17-2005 |
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Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched
Pure Road Tripnew
Monte Hellman's hard-to-find Two-Lane Blacktop defines the American road movie. If you're serious about film, it's one movie not to miss.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-16-2005 |
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Tags: Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop
Old Show's Nature Seems Rickety Vehicle for Featurenew
It's just like the 1950s series, only with an African-American cast, a modern setting and lame jokes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
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Another Road Home Is a Journey Both Personal and Politicalnew
Another Road Home has echoes of the sharp divide between black and white experience in the United States, and how one race can be oblivious to discrimination, and the other, daily, painfully aware of it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-16-2005 |
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Tags: Another Road Home, Danae Elon
Movie Magic Keeps Howl's Castle Movingnew
What sticks with you are the film's moments of delicate epiphanies, like seeing a fire demon cook bacon and eggs, or watching a hopping scarecrow hang clothes to dry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
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Duff Enufnew
Less a feature film than 90 minutes of tweenage feminine wish fulfillment, The Perfect Man is like Teen People come to life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-16-2005 |
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Tags: Mark Rosman, The Perfect Man
Bale Bats It Out of the Park … Er, Cavenew
Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2005 |
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Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
A, B, C, Dancenew
The filmmakers would have us embrace this work as though it were the Spellbound of grade-school dance documentaries, but the film quickly loses its footing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mad Hot Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo
Lord of This Castlenew
The latest from animation master Hayao Miyazaki is ravishingly beautiful but narratively inferior to all his other flims.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2005 |
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Cross the T for Twisty Tanglenew
In his English-language debut, Gael García Bernal plays one of the sides of a twisted love triangle.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-16-2005 |
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Tags: Dot the I, Matthew Parkhill
Suspicious Mindsnew
Even though grande dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench share the screen in this drama, their immense talents are mostly wasted.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
06-16-2005 |
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Tags: Charles Dance, Ladies in Lavender
'Til Death Do Us Partnew
Pitt and Jolie, reduced to being used as set dressing in their own star vehicle, nevertheless pack a lot of bang for the buck.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Doug Liman, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Batman Begins Examines the Man Behind the Masknew
Batman Begins breaks from tradition by compellingly tracing the motives that lead a brooding billionaire to pick fights dressed as an airborne rodent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
The Wrong Duff
The Perfect Man is perfectly frabricated pap.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
06-16-2005 |
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