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Genre-Bending Film Surprises at Every Turnnew
Nifty, surprising and outrageously overplotted, The Dying Gaul changes its genre stripes so frequently, viewers may feel they've left a film fundamentally different than the one they entered.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: Craig Lucas, The Dying Gaul
The Old Blacknew
Years from now, cinema-studies teachers will refer to Walk the Line as a textbook example of what a biopic looks like when it gets everything right.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Harry Potter Turns the Corner With Thrilling Filmnew
As a turning point in the series, the Goblet of Fire film needs to -- and does -- feel "bigger" than the previous installments. Author J.K. Rowling gives her now-14-year-old protagonists more grown-up concerns.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-17-2005 |
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Film Offers Little Insight Into Johnny Cashnew
As much as the film traces Johnny Cash's personal decline, the script uncovers few complexities in his character and loses sight of him as a potent artist.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: James Mangold, Walk the Line
Dial M for Menswearnew
Mere minutes into its opening credits, the heated black comedy El Crimen Perfecto has its title reshuffled into El Crimen Ferpecto. And that Spanish spoonerism says everything about the film.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
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Gleeful Weaponnew
At a stage when most successful screenwriters have settled into a grateful pursuit of the lowest common denominator, it's a kick to see a scribe like Shane Black.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: Shane Black, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Fizzling Wizardrynew
The Harry Potter series takes a step backwards with Goblet of Fire.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
11-17-2005 |
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Threesome Gone Badnew
Atom Egoyan's erotic thriller leaves a few too many loose ends.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
The Usual Subtextsnew
The Johnny Cash biopic misinterprets the Man In Black as just another troubled artist in search of redemption.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
11-16-2005 |
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Hogwarts and Hormonesnew
The dancing lessons are as scary as the dragons for our pubescent wizards.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-16-2005 |
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Spell It Outnew
The film reduces Myla Goldberg's novel to a series of shallow metaphors, and it overplays every single one of them.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
11-15-2005 |
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Spells Like Teen Spirit
The magic comes from the character growth in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-15-2005 |
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Bum Rapnew
Rare is the movie that so perfectly critiques itself; 50 Cent sounds articulate in his raps, but as a lead actor, he talks like his mouth is filled with food.
Houston Press |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-14-2005 |
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Aboard Gamenew
Neither pandering nor dull, Zathura plays exactly like a no-limits replica of the kind of space adventure that imaginative kids left to their own devices might enact.
Dallas Observer |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-14-2005 |
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Protocols of Zion
This is a rambling and inconclusive but intermittently incisive tour of neo-Nazis, radical Muslims, and other conspiracy-inclined types.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-11-2005 |
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