AltWeeklies Wire
Holiday Togetherness Gets Testednew
The film initially promises a Meet the Parents-spin on yuletide trauma. But it isn't without its entertainment value.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-15-2005 |
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Tags: The Family Stone, Thomas Bezucha
Film Challenges Masculine Mythosnew
At its core, the heartbreaking film is a necessary re-evaluation of the myths of masculine stoicism and emotional remove we hold dear in the Western, but also in life.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
12-15-2005 |
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Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Flawed Fantasynew
Much like Trix cereal, The Chronicles of Narnia is for kids.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
12-15-2005 |
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Love as Revolutionnew
In Brokeback Mountain, the explosion of pent-up sexual desire and repression between the two main characters, equal parts mountain brawl and synergistic lovemaking, is likely to become the fuck heard 'round the world.
Willamette Week |
David Walker |
12-14-2005 |
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Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Comedy Is Not Funnynew
Comedienne Sarah Silverman rubs our noses in it.
Baltimore City Paper |
Joe MacLeod |
12-14-2005 |
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Asia Minornew
Given that this movie is aimed at the art-house crowd, would it not have been possible to make it in Japanese? You never think you'll miss subtitles until a movie like this comes along.
Clash of the Titansnew
New Zealand's biggest director meets American cinema's biggest metaphor.
Baltimore City Paper |
Gary Dowell |
12-14-2005 |
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Tags: King Kong, Peter Jackson
Homo on the Rangenew
This romantic tragedy about a pair of lean, wind-burned cowpokes who secretly live to poke each other flies in the face of everything that most people in Casper or Riverton or Laramie think about the West, and about themselves.
Monkey Shines
The humanity of a great ape brings emotional power to King Kong.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-13-2005 |
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Tags: King Kong, Peter Jackson
Fluxuationnew
At least half of this action flick is brilliant and inspired; the rest lets us down, but overall it's much more interesting than your average chick-in-spandex-with-guns movie.
East Bay Express |
Luke Y. Thompson |
12-12-2005 |
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If I'm Lion, I'm Dyin'
If you and your kids aren't already admirers of the book, Narnia just may bore the crap out of the whole family.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-09-2005 |
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Imperial Witnesses
To those who don't remember the Vietnam War, Winter Soldier may seem antique. Yet anyone who's been paying attention to the occupation of Iraq will recognize certain mind-sets, tactics, and weapons.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-09-2005 |
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Pseudo Arabia
Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, who scripted Steven Soderbergh's structurally kindred Traffic, the intriguing but finally unsatisfying Syriana is the latest product of the Clooney-Soderbergh salutary-cinema factory.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-09-2005 |
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The Face of Terrornew
One of the strongest -- and sure to be controversial -- films of the year, The War Within goes places that other films wouldn't dare, following an Islamic suicide bomber who comes to New York City with a deadly plan.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jean Oppenheimer |
12-09-2005 |
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Tags: Joseph Castelo, The War Within
Legend Keptnew
A paean to the Middle Eastern oral storytelling tradition narrates the life of the 11th-century Persian astronomer, mathematician, and poet from the perspective of a 12-year-old Iranian-American.
Boston Phoenix |
Mattias Frey |
12-09-2005 |
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