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Out Like a Lambnew
Set, for the most part, in the underground Berlin bunker where Adolf Hitler spent his last days, Downfall is a grim and sometimes guilt-ridden examination of the Third Reich in collapse. But it's also weirdly sympathetic.
Love, African Stylenew
A drama about Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in post-apartheid South Africa devolves into a clumsy romance.
Finder's Feenew
Damian Cunningham is an angel-faced, 7-year-old boy who's lost his mum and gets advice on how to spend a load of cash from the late, great saints.
Allen and Costner Are Upside's Upsidenew
This movie belongs to Joan Allen, who plays Terry Wolfmeyer, a wife abandoned by her husband and left to pick up the pieces and collect them in a giant bottle of vodka. Terry's is the cold, composed visage of a woman struggling to keep it together.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
03-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Binder, The Upside of Anger
A Bridge Too Farnew
In a high-concept collision of two cultures,Bride and Prejudice takes the form of a Bollywood musical and also represents the umpteenth filmed remake of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
03-17-2005 |
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CGI Citynew
You'll go for the trailer, but you'll stay because Robots is a good time for the kids
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chris Wedge, robots
Meets Lowered Expectationsnew
Given what time of year this is, Hostage is comparatively decent.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Florent Emilio Siri, Hostage
Through the Eyes of Haitiansnew
It would have been nice to see director Jonathan Demme rise above a relatively traditional, at times stodgy documentary format reliant on talking head interviews to link the revolutionary practices of Dominique with the revolutionary possibility of film style.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jonathan Demme, The Agronomist
Get a Little Sweet and Sour with Animationnew
The Animation Show 2005, an evening of cartoon shorts presented by Oscar nominee Don Hertzfeldt and "King of the Hill's" Mike Judge, offers flashes of delight while confirming the adage that life is nasty, brutish and short.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-17-2005 |
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Media Influences Color Experience and Perception of Warnew
Gunner Palace is shaped by not only contemporary documentary conventions, but by fictional war films like Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket, which seem to play continuously in the back of director Michael Tucker's and the soldiers' minds.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-17-2005 |
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Joan Allen Chews Everybody Out in The Upside of Angernew
Director Mike Binder shows little insight into the mind of Terry, whose husband abandons her. Terry's daughters never develop past the simplest possible characterizations, and the film can't decide whether to make Terry a villain, a victim or a feminist heroine.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
03-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Binder, The Upside of Anger
Back to Bhutannew
Travellers & Magicians feels a bit like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as retold by Siddhartha, as this Himalayan beauty gently delivers a very accurate anti-materialistic Buddhist morality lesson.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-16-2005 |
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Steam Heatnew
Japanese anime director Katsuhiro Ôtomo, best known for Akira, here delivers a dazzlingly straightforward rush that thrusts its protagonist into astonishing action set-piece after set-piece.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Steamboy
The New Palace Guardnew
Uday Hussein's former pleasure palace is now home to an American artillery regiment, whose members we get to know from their poolside antics to their far more sobering responsibilities of patrolling Baghdad.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
03-16-2005 |
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No Child Left Behindnew
Even though Born Into Brothels – winner of the 2004 Oscar for Best Documentary – is a devastating portrait of impoverished Calucutta children who are born into the sex trades, the film is also an inspiring document about human possibilities.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
03-16-2005 |
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