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Metaphysical Obsessions
Bee Season mucks around in stuff that no mainstream American entertainment--save, perhaps, the last few Madonna albums--has ever explored.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-18-2005 |
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The Shock Wears Off
The 72-minute film is about an hour's worth of Sarah Silverman's stand-up, padded with a weak story line that enables it to pass as a movie.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-18-2005 |
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Cash on Delivery
Yes, kids, we have another Ray. Nearly to the letter, actually. But Joaquin Phoenix does Jaime Foxx one better by singing Johnny Cash's songs himself, a ridiculously risky move in portraying an icon whose voice was the thing. But damn if the boy doesn't pull it off.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-18-2005 |
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Lift Your Glassnew
J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the most camera-ready of the series. The trouble is, it’s also overstuffed and rambling.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
11-18-2005 |
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Fine Linenew
The tortured and demonic part of Johnny Cash that stoked his genius often gets lost in the platitudes, the rough edges airbrushed by sentimentality. But not in James Mangold’s movie bio of the Man in Black.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
11-18-2005 |
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A Real-Life Dollnew
The Dolls were a boozy breath of air in a bleak, almost non-existent music scene. They sired New York City's punk movement, but a band is not a movement, and sometimes the parts are greater than the sum because those parts are, quite simply, people.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
11-18-2005 |
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Back In Black
Phoenix and Witherspoon bring the appropriate fire to the epic love story of Johnny Cash and June Carter, but director James Mangold's film never ignites.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
11-17-2005 |
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Comedy Thriller Is Dead Before the Final Reelnew
The Dying Gaul may have been a great play, but onscreen, it proves to be a dying film.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: Craig Lucas, The Dying Gaul
Johnny Cash Gets What He Deservesnew
Joaquin Phoenix portrays the infamous Man in Black in Walk The Line.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Honky-Tonk Love Storynew
Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as the musician Johnny Cash, whose rise, fall, and resurrection we watch as he does the Benzedrine 12-step in order to earn the love of country-and-gospel sasspot June Carter.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Bombs Awaynew
Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That's the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
Potter Tots Grow Up Lotsnew
This fourth Potter film is qualitatively different from the first three: It doesn't linger on gothic curlicues, and it emphasizes the emotional development of its characters with dramatic interplay rather than expressionistic, atmospheric gloom.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
11-17-2005 |
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Portrait of the Artist as a Gay Ladnew
Dorian Blues has wit, humor, good performances, and clever technique, which catapult the film into the front ranks of coming-out movies.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: Dorian Blues, Tennyson Bardwell
Off the Tracksnew
The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is a thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages the viewer's sympathies.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: Mikael Hafstrom, Derailed
All Spelled Outnew
Myla Goldberg's novel about spelling-bee fever, a family in chaos and religious/mystic exploration arrives on the screen with all its faults intact but few of its charms.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
11-17-2005 |
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