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Outfoxed Charges News Channel with Partisan Reportingnew

Home screening parties were encouraged and gathered momentum for Outfoxed, a film that builds a case about how Murdoch uses his vast media reach not as a news organization but as a partisan soapbox for the Republican Party.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Heather Kuldell | 07-22-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Robert Greenwald, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism

Pull the Shade on Genre-Bending Facing Windowsnew

Keep the audience guessing, Facing Windows suggests, and maybe no one will bother to ask where the hell it's all going.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Felicia Feaster | 07-22-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Facing Windows, Ferzan Ozpetek

Restored Godzilla Reveals Big G's Staying Powernew

The untouched original Godzilla, featuring 40 minutes cut from the Americanized version, gets its first U.S. theatrical release as a 50th birthday present to the Japanese monster.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 07-22-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Ishiro Honda, Godzilla

Are You My Mother?new

A story about a Mongolian camel and her newborn calf becomes a transfixing lesson about the rhythms of life.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 07-16-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Byambasuren Davaa; Luigi Falorni, The Story of the Weeping Camel

Adults Inspired by Boy in '68 Buenos Airesnew

Big-hearted Argentinean import sees life from a young boy's perspective.

Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov | 07-16-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Alejandro Agresti, Valentín

These Robots Have a Few Loose Screwsnew

This summer, Will Smith saves the world from … robots.

Austin Chronicle | Marjorie Baumgarten | 07-15-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Alex Proyas, I, Robot

The Cole Porter Storynew

Affectionate biography of Cole Porter's life is packed wall-to-wall with song-and-dance numbers but is short on new insights.

Austin Chronicle | Kimberley Jones | 07-15-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Judd, Irwin Winkler, Jonathan, Kevin, Ashley, De-Lovely, Kline, Pryce

Duff Enoughnew

Hilary Duff's Cinderella tale goes splat like a pumpkin.

Austin Chronicle | Kimberley Jones | 07-15-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Mark Rosman, A Cinderella Story

Anchorman Builds to Outlandish Laughsnew

Of all those countless comedies that star Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, the Wilson brothers or some combination thereof, this is the funniest.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 07-15-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Adam McKay, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

Director Updates Classic Bruised, Bitter Film Noirnew

You don't need to know what London criminal Will Graham (Clive Owen) saw or did to understand him in I'll Sleep When I'm Dead. Will is hardwired by the rules of the film noir genre -- which Hodges honors with due reverence -- for revenge.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Felicia Feaster | 07-15-2004 | Reviews

Tags: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Mike Hodges

Cold Porter: Film Never Attains Effervescencenew

The biopic De-Lovely strains so hard to capture songwriter Cole Porter's elegant sophistication that you appreciate his effortless music all the more.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 07-15-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Irwin Winkler, De-Lovely

The Trilogy Has a Three-Way with Perspectivenew

Belvaux tests the adage by constructing three separate but interlocking films, each in a different genre. See one of The Trilogy's installments and you won't be able to resist seeing them all.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 07-15-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Lucas Belvaux, The Trilogy