AltWeeklies Wire
'Saw V': A Series of Torturesnew
Yet another damn Saw movie is crapping in theaters ... and bringing in lots of box-office cash.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-30-2008 |
Reviews
Is 'Changeling' a Thriller or More?new
Clint Eastwood tries to do too much with his disappointing, surprisingly graphic Changeling.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-30-2008 |
Reviews
Navigating 'Frozen River'new
How far will a mother go to make a better life for her children? It's a question that the debut film by writer-director Courtney Hunt asks and attempts to answer in this remarkably textured and compelling story set close to the Canadian border in upstate New York.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Elizabeth Chorney-Booth |
10-30-2008 |
Reviews
Fear(s) of the Dark Offers an Animated Omnibus of Juvenile Dreadnew
Structured as a frame story of sorts, the film begins with a pack of four voracious hounds, tethered to a sadist, who set out across the countryside in search of blood. Positioned along the backdrop of this chase are four vignettes of horror that center on popular phobias.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Erik Morse |
10-30-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Various, Fear(s) of the Dark
One Person Saves 'Zack and Miri': Elizabeth Banksnew
When full-scale T&A supplants a storyline rather than complementing it, a fictional send-up about making a porno begins to adopt the tedium of watching an actual porno.
'I.O.U.S.A.' is an Essential Documentarynew
The film is a grim assessment of America's precarious, unsustainable finance.
Hollywood Takes a Stab at Hollywood in 'What Just Happened?'new
I'm going to suggest one measure for judging a Hollywood satire: Does it leave you wanting to see the fictional film-within-the-film it dramatizes? If not, the L.A. story probably doesn't qualify as a success
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-29-2008 |
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Wayne Coyne Loses the Plot, Keeps the Magic for 'Christmas'new
The Flaming Lips frontman is hitting the big screen as a true alien -- a man in green with deely-bopper horns on his head and shoulders -- in the movie he cooked up, co-directed, and co-stars in, Christmas on Mars.
Kevin Smith Tests the Gag Reflex of Chick Flicksnew
Smith's former productions were like low-rent precursors to Judd Apatow. In Zack and Miri both comic galaxies collide, with orgasmic results.
Willamette Week |
Ap Kryza |
10-29-2008 |
Reviews
Jolie Teams Up with Eastwood to Make an Insane Melodramanew
Only a director of Clint Eastwood's reputation and confidence could make a movie this brazenly batshit.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
10-29-2008 |
Reviews
'Pride and Glory': When Good Cop Movies Go Badnew
The film is so dark, tonally as well as visually, the entire affair looks like it was shot during a solar eclipse. In other words, it looks and feels right. But something is off. Mostly, it's the script.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
10-28-2008 |
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Kevin Smith Borrows From Judd Apatow in 'Zack and Miri'
Kevin Smith hasn't matured enough to actually make a good comedy, but he has accrued enough casting wisdom to elevate his latest homegrown material with the effervescent Elizabeth Banks and Seth Rogan.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
10-27-2008 |
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Kevin Smith's Arrested Adolescence Continues in 'Zack and Miri'
Smith's still funny when the muse strikes him, but it's just too awkward watching him try to build romantic comedy out of sentimentalizing old-school pornography.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-27-2008 |
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'The Tiger's Tail' is a Tepid Talenew
I saw John Boorman's film in January 2007, when it closed the Palm Springs Film Festival. At the time, it felt like a casual disappointment from a once-great director, destined for DVD obscurity. I'm not entirely sure why it merits theatrical release now, almost two years later.
NOW Magazine |
Norman Wilner |
10-27-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: John Boorman, The Tiger's Tail
You Won't See a Scarier Movie This Halloween than the Documentary 'Flow'new
The best horror movies are able to make the mundane frightening, and the subject of Flow is a something so common that we take it for granted: water, as abundant as oxygen and just as vital for human life.
