AltWeeklies Wire
Bloodsuckers and Supersuckersnew
This video-game-to-movie adaptation poses no threat to German filmmaker Uwe Boll's reputation as the modern-day Ed Wood.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: BloodRayne, Uwe Boll
History Refractednew
In this latest from Neil Jordan, Cillian Murphy plays the swinging transvestite Patrick "Kitten" Braden, who wanders through the pop-and-politics culture of Seventies England.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Jordan, Breakfast on Pluto
History's Horndog Rides Againnew
Hallstrom's latest is fine but unambitious, content with being an arthouse trifle with tricorner hats, corsets, and powdered wigs.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Casanova, Lasse Hallström
Ghost Town Tokyonew
The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Pulse, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Life in 10 Minute Chunksnew
Composed of nine occasionally interlocking vignettes that star a dozen or so terrific actresses, Nine Lives presents intimate portraits of women grapplng with life.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Nine Lives, Rodrigo García
Power Pointnew
Woody Allen's location switch from New York to London has yielded his most bracing, sure-handed, satisfying film in at least a decade.
Boston Phoenix |
Gary Susman |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
Tasteless, Yet Inspirationalnew
Since the romantic subplot and slapstick stumble so often, a film that focused on the complex dynamics among the disabled should have been more special.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Behind the Musicnew
Despite being frustratingly too abstract at times, this film can be revelatory.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Happy Hookernew
Memoirs of a Geisha inappropriately tells the clean, beautiful story of a girl sold into sex slavery.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Memoirs of a Geisha, Rob Marshall
Man Troublenew
Despite toying with the dark American fantasy of living off the grid and putting a bullet in the head of corporate America, the film ultimately reminds us that we're all just working for the man.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Shepard, The Matador
Ode to Mediocritynew
Be Here to Love Me is an interesting documentary about a solvent-loving songwriter you've probably never heard of.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-05-2006 |
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Unhappy Trails
Brokeback Mountain develops the quality of a mournful fable, transcending its own awkward passages and didactic limitations.
Ghost Worldnew
This Hungarian film, the most existential of holocaust films, is artistic without cheap or superfluous effects, making it almost mystically translucent.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
01-04-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Fateless, Lajos Koltai
Broken Hip
Hoodwinked may look low-tech, but the real problem is its attitude.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
01-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Cory Edwards, Hoodwinked
Serve and Follynew
Woody Allen's Cannes-hyped, Brit-inflected latest is a mildly pretentious mediocrity. The performances Allen gets, with his puppet hand permanently up his cast's colons, suggest an undergrad film adaptation of Dreiser.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
12-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Woody Allen, Match Point
