AltWeeklies Wire
Void Where Prohibited: Enter the Void and I Spit on Your Gravenew
Ghosts on drugs! Love-hotel peeping toms! Brutal hillbillies! Grisly female revenge!
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-07-2010 |
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It's A Funny Story and Jack Goes Boatingnew
Films about life, love and the whole damn mess.
Boise Weekly |
George Prentice |
10-07-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Jack Goes Boating
Life in the Sinkhole: Hollywood Romantic Comedies Don't Know Where to Begin
Aspiring to combine comedy, tragedy, and romance into a deep-meaning treatise on the prettiest and happiest white people you've ever seen, "Life as We Know It" is less than it pretends to be.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-04-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Berlanti, Life as We Know It
The Social Network and the "F" Wordnew
The billionaire geek who invented Facebook (The Social Network) meets the juvie outcasts of the living dead (Let Me In).
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
10-01-2010 |
Reviews
Characters Sans Characternew
'Animal Kingdom' presents gangsters in a whole new light: as extremely boring.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-30-2010 |
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The Founders of Facebook Get in a Poke Warnew
The Social Network feels like a strange and satisfying blend of two worlds.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
09-29-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Social Network
Animal Kingdom is a Tough Aussie Crime Dramanew
Degrees of depravity are the only way to assign relative villainy to these characters, and there are no heroes -- only those who don't deserve to die as much as others.
Tags: Animal Kingdom, David Michod
A Movie More Entertaining Than Facebook
Boy tech geeks won't be able to prevent themselves from outbursts of clapping, laughter, and bladder leaks while watching David Fincher's fast-paced drama about the meteoric rise of Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-27-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: David Fincher, The Social Network
Heist Classicnew
Could actor-writer-director Ben Affleck really become the next Clint Eastwood?
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-24-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Town, Ben Affleck
Catfish is Another Dodgy Docnew
One of the most buzzed-about films at this year's Sundance, Catfish examines the very real world of downtrodden, bored, criminally inclined or just mischievous people reinventing themselves in cyberspace.
Gordon Gekko Returnsnew
How do you make a sequel to the strutting, chest-beating capitalism thrill ride of Oliver Stone's 1987 Wall Street in post-bailout America? Very carefully.
Charleston City Paper |
Felicia Feaster |
09-22-2010 |
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Bohemian Rhapsody: Howl and Jack Goes Boatingnew
James Franco blazes as Allen Ginsberg; Philip Seymour quietly simmers.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
09-22-2010 |
Reviews
The Curious Case of Joaquin Phoenix in I'm Still Herenew
I'm Still Here represents Joaquin Phoenix and Casey Affleck -- both younger brothers of actors devoured by the tabloid press -- taking a giant dump on the entertainment industry.
Tags: I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck
Oliver Stone Sweetens the Pain: Wall Street Sequel Hits All the High Points
Oliver Stone makes a winning attempt at staying true to his original "Wall Street's" streamlined storytelling about the warped mentality of the center of the economic universe.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
09-20-2010 |
Reviews
A Big Bust ... or Twonew
Paul W.S. Anderson brings cheesy special effects and terrible action scenes to the latest 'Resident Evil.'
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
09-17-2010 |
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