AltWeeklies Wire
Seasonal Unaffective Disorder
How most events and characters connect to each other is anybody's guess.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
06-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: autumn, Ra'up McGee
The Passion of the Heist
Watching a disease-riddled, restlessly curious man in action is fascinating.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
06-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Rebecca Dreyfus, Stolen
What Are Words For?
This film is so frenzied that it takes a while to comprehend that just about everyone in it is completely misguided.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Patrick Creadon, Wordplay
Tortured Artistry
This is a powerful statement of outrage -- visceral, high-pitched, and enveloping.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
06-26-2006 |
Reviews
The Man of Steel Bears A Heavy Heart
Superman Returns is a sumptuous cinematic experience where its necessary spectacle never takes a front seat to the drama's emotional core.
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
Fill in the Blanksnew
This documentary about crossword puzzles and their ardent fans, has a specific focus on the daily puzzles in The New York Times; their editor, Will Shortz; and the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Patrick Creadon, Wordplay
Raise High the Roofbeamsnew
The controversial architect is brought into focus by veteran filmmaker Sydney Pollack.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-23-2006 |
Reviews
A Gym Rat and His Yodanew
It's mostly hoo-hah, but there are moments in this New-Agey, feel-semi-good crowd-pleaser that rise above and beyond the gymnastics and psychobabble.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Peaceful Warrior, Victor Salva
A Movie With Lots of Happy Endingsnew
This high-wire act combines fact and fiction, drama and self-deprecating humor, honesty and self-delusion.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Caveh Zahedi, I am a sex addict
Click on the Emotionsnew
Click is a message movie whose real message isn't "Stop and Smell the Roses, Jackass," but "How to Manipulate the Audience in 12 E-Z Steps."
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Click, Frank Coraci
It’s a Plain
The inner life of an icon remains blank in Superman Returns.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Singer, Superman Returns
Highly Anticipatednew
This collaboration between Jack Black, his School of Rock writer, Mike White, and Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess certainly doesn't equal the best moments of their respective oeuvres, but neither is it an outright atrocity.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Jared Hess, Nacho Libre
An Impressive Debutnew
Chinese filmmaker Xiao Jiang's extended flashback is about two cinema-crazed kids coming of age amid the communist revolution of the early 1970s.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Electric Shadows, Xiao Jiang
By the Numbersnew
Quick: What's an eight-letter word for "diverting"?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Patrick Creadon, Wordplay
Master Buildernew
Sydney Pollack sizes up architect Frank Gehry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
