AltWeeklies Wire
This Kinda Sucksnew
This Underworld is not as good as it should have been.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Len Wiseman, Underworld: Evolution
The Camera Starsnew
Steven Soderbergh's latest captivating achievement breaks ground in several ways.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Films Are a Force of Naturenew
Our loving critics ponder the tender cinema of 2005, and while they don't agree on much, they're unanimous on the year's worst movie.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna and Bob Grimm |
01-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Head of the Classnew
Loggerheads is an exquisite ensemble drama set in three North Carolina communities.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
01-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Loggerheads, Tim Kirkman
Return of the Mavericknew
Steven Soderbergh challenges Hollywood with stark realism and groundbreaking distribution.
San Diego CityBeat |
Angela Carone |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
The Human Landscapenew
The writer-director of Days of Heaven and Thin Red Line trains his gaze on the settlers of The New World.
Nashville Scene |
Donna Bowman |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Terrence Malick, The New World
Welcome to the Doll Factorynew
Soderbergh doesn't condescend to middle America, but he doesn't do much of anything else either.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Plantation Nationnew

Von Trier's redundant Dogville sequel dilutes the vitriol for a didactic tale of democracy gone awry.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Lars von Trier, Manderlay
A Brilliant Film That Sucksnew
There's no getting around the fact that The Intruder is an elliptical, and perhaps an even literally meaningless film.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Claire Denis, The Intruder
The First Realistic Reality Filmnew
A truly amazing reality film (in every sense of the word), Bubble has produced a new approach: method acting taken to a different extreme -- call it "reality acting."
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
More Disturbing than Davey and Goliathnew
Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is set in a post-apocalyptic future, and is a claymation rendering of the Manson Family murders -- no, seriously.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Shanghai Crimesnew
Ralph Fiennes doesn’t even phone in his role in this stilted 1930s period drama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Too Real to Feel Goodnew
Soderbergh's HD experiment is magic-free.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Tarnished Ivorynew
White Countess writes an inglorious final chapter for a dynamic filmmaking duo.
Dallas Observer |
Bill Gallo |
01-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, White Countess
Suspended Sentencenew
After Innocence probes life after a wrongful conviction.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
01-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: After Innocence, Jessica Sanders