AltWeeklies Wire
'September Dawn': Mountain Muddle
This inept film gets a good hate on for Mormons.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Cain, September Dawn
'Becoming Jane': Literary Lovenew
Not quite Austen, but not bad.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
'Hot Rod': Crash, Burnnew
This stuntman comedy is a total wreck.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Akiva Schaffer, Hot Rod
'The Bourne Ultimatum': Total Recallnew
The world needs a Jason Bourne right now, or at least the movies do.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
'Stardust': Summertime, and the Magic is Easynew
The film's real beauty lies in the way it perfectly swirls together adventure and romance, humor and darkness.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Matthew Vaughn, Stardust
'Interview': Twenty Questionsnew
For all its talking, the film seems to have little to say.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: interview, Steve Buscemi
'Superbad': It Happened One Nightnew
What earns the film a place alongside American Graffiti, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Dazed and Confused in the pantheon of evergreen high school movies is its sweet, soulful vulnerability.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'The 11th Hour': Countdown to Extinctionnew
Despite its shortcomings, the film is ultimately a triumph of redemptive ideas that Leonardo DiCaprio -- God bless his celebrity -- may finally succeed in transporting from the environmental fringe to the mainstream moviegoing audience.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
'The Invasion': Live Pod Castingnew
Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, it's one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney's 1954 novella The Body Snatchers.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Invasion, Oliver Hirschbieger
'The Ten': Thou Shall Notnew
Quirky comedy sketches illustrate each of the Ten Commandments.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Wain, The Ten
'Superbad': Arrested Development Forevernew
Lately, Judd Apatow and his buddies have been making comedies for a certain age group, not ones for the ages -- luckily, this one comes a little closer.
Austin Chronicle |
Shawn Badgley |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'Lights in the Dusk': Lonely Guynew
How does one say "cherchez la femme" in Finnish?
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Aki Kaurismaki, Lights in the Dusk
'The Invasion': Spore Warsnew
Whether or not any new interpretation of this old story could capture anxieties and unconscious fears in our era the way at least two of the previous versions did, this movie isn't up to that challenge.
Tags: The Invasion, Oliver Hirschbieger
'The King of Kong': Dueling Joysticksnew
This is a winning, sweet, and occasionally disturbing documentary about otherwise sensible adults who vie for the title of World's Best Donkey Kong Player.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
'Death at a Funeral': Mourning Becomes Electivenew
Pure farce served straight up.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Death at a Funeral, Frank Oz
