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DiG This!new
DiG! transcends the typical "rock movie" format and aspires to something greater: an examination of why we create and what we receive from art.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dig!, Ondi Timoner
Few 'Sideways' Glancesnew
The critics' No. 1 choice turned out to be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten, Steve Davis, Kimberley Jones and Marc Savlov |
01-06-2005 |
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Renaissance Mennew
Filmmaker Rodney Evans builds a bridge between generations, linking young, gay African-American artists of today with those of the Harlem Renaissance. The film's subject proves so rich with potential that Evans doesn't know what to do with it all.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Brother to Brother, Rodney Evans
Gripping Hotel Rwanda Salutes Unlikely Heronew
Just as Schindler's List recounted the unexpected heroism of the apolitical industrialist-turned-savior of Holocaust-era Jews, Hotel Rwanda salutes an obscure hotel manager who rescued 1,200 lives during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry George, Hotel Rwanda
The Good, Bad and the Uglynew
The latest in Hollywood, art and indie films: Capsule reviews that say, "We're as mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore."
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-05-2005 |
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Schlock and Awe -- 2004 at the Moviesnew
Whatever your state's color, 2004 was a pale year at the movies, marked by such busts as The Alamo (forgettable) and Alexander, Oliver Stone's not-so-great epic on the Greek conqueror.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-05-2005 |
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Split Decisionnew
Clint Eastwood's boxing melodrama doesn't quite live up to its awards-season accolades. But Hilary Swank's effort is a steely knockout.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-05-2005 |
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War-Torn and Lovelornnew
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's latest is what a sweeping epic of love and war should be: beautiful and ugly all at once, dramatic on a grand, yet thoroughly calibrated, scale.
Father of African Cinema Produces a Beautiful Polemicnew
The 81-year-old Senagelese director's film about girls fleeing ritual circumcision has a moral center that is painfully clear. It also expresses each character's humanity.
Den of Iniquitynew
This delightful Spanish drama is worth seeing for its calm, apt depiction of its principal characters, a gay "bearish" uncle and the nephew he parents. An opening scene of sex between men has been bowdlerized from the American print.
Houston Press |
Melissa Levine |
01-03-2005 |
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Splish Splash, It's a Bathnew
The early reviews for Beyond the Sea have been so hateful that a latecomer to the bashing bash is tempted to head straight for the spiked eggnog and let the man pass without further abuse.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
01-03-2005 |
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Extended Sentencenew
Tackling a touchy subject, Nicole Kassell looks at Walter, a released pedophile, not as a case study but as a single human being under tremendous pressures, internal and external. In the process she stirs us to examine our own fears and prejudices.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
01-03-2005 |
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Top 10 List Recognizes Good Storytellingnew
Truth turned out to be less compelling than pure inventiveness in 2004, which explains the critic's No. 1 choice, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
01-03-2005 |
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This Film Soarsnew
The Aviator is an incredible movie -- now, would someone please give Scorsese an Oscar?
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
12-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Aviator
Well-Furnished Failurenew
Kevin Spacey's biopic, supposedly about Bobby Darin, ends up being more about Spacey.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
12-30-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Spacey, beyond the sea
