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Cary On
Touch of Pink creates a realistic Cary Grant, but no realistic human comedy
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-24-2004 |
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Tags: Ian Iqbal Rashid, Touch of Pink
Incorporating Understandingnew
To the degree to which this documentary sticks to its initial subject, The Corporation is an amazing work -- abundantly informative, visually arresting, and endlessly thought-provoking.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-24-2004 |
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Wireless Fu
The Twilight Samurai is less clashing swords than romantic parlor drama.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Twilight Samurai, Yoji Yomada
After the Fire
Ladder 49 effectively balances humanizing and lionizing its firefighter heroes.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Jay Russell, Ladder 49
Vet Management
Going Upriver succeeds at making John Kerry look presidential ... 30 years ago.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
09-24-2004 |
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Dancing to the Brink of Warnew
Actor and author Stephen Fry turns director for this colorful group snapshot of monied revelers in 1930s London.
Austin Chronicle |
Kiimberley Jones |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Bright Young Things, Stephen Fry
Waters Sportsnew
It’s a dirty shame that John Waters hasn’t made a truly offensive movie in more than 20 years. One can only hope that the NC-17 rated A Dirty Shame will change that.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-24-2004 |
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Computer Bluenew
Kerry Conran and his blue screen clone the classics.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
09-23-2004 |
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Doors of Perceptionnew
This Korean film about a monk and his young disciple has a beguiling simplicity and a meditative visual style that prove fascinating.
Missoula Independent |
Susanna Sonnenberg |
09-23-2004 |
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Tennis Trystnew
If you don't take Wimbledon too seriously, you'll enjoy it, thanks to Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Loncraine, Wimbledon
A Less-Dirty Shamenew
While it received the dreaded NC-17 rating, John Waters' latest is minor compared to his previous films.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-23-2004 |
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Film's Resemblance to Video Game is Uncannynew
Nicotina is a heist film so bland and uninspired, the filmmakers give up almost immediately on the details of its conventional deal-gone-haywire plot, focusing instead on tangential storylines and characters.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-23-2004 |
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Tags: Hugo Rodriguez, Nicotina
Director Needs to Grow Up Alreadynew
Some milestone has surely been marked when the latest John Waters film doesn't shock so much as make you wish the director would grow up already. At 58, Waters is still fixated on the kind of bathroom humor and sexual material that seems puerile.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: John Waters, A Dirty Shame
Film Creates Atmosphere of Gnawing, Unrelenting Tensionnew
With the possible exception of Spike Lee's 25th Hour, no recent film has distilled the post-Sept. 11 sense of anxiety and dread better than iconoclastic Austrian director Michael Haneke's The Time of the Wolf, a gripping, brilliantly conceived post-apocalyptic drama.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-23-2004 |
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Fry's Film Shines With Social Satirenew
His experiences prepped Fry for writing and directing the satiric social X-ray of London's glitterati in the 1930s. He takes some liberties with Evelyn Waugh's second novel, but he lives up to the book's precise comic timing and scalding satire.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-23-2004 |
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Tags: Bright Young Things, Stephen Fry
