AltWeeklies Wire
Parasitic Cinemanew
Doom sucks less than other video-game movies, but it still kinda sucks.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: doom, Andrzej Bartkowiak
Pure Popnew
Kamikaze Girls takes Japanese pop culture and goes to the extreme.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kamikaze Girls, Tetsuya Nakashima
Sequel Taints Your Memory of First Filmnew
Despite reuniting Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and director Martin Campbell, The Legend of Zorro proves so sloppy, silly and over-acted that the signature "Z" should stand for "Zero."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
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Actors Hawk Shallow Goods in Filmnew
The mopey, exceptionally shallow Shopgirl most often suggests is the sleazy politics of a Pretty Woman directed at the New Yorker crowd.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
Midlife Crisis Turns Film Partly Cloudynew
Frequently running to the crowd-pleasing Hollywood formula, the director and the screenwriter have ambitions to make the character's midlife crisis into a pointed statement about the hollowness of American values. The film seldom proves as profound as it thinks it is, but you appreciate its attempt to be serious.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Asian Directors Join Forces For Filmnew
In a singular example of transnational artistic cooperation, cult filmmakers from Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan come together with the shared goal of messing with their audience's heads and turning their stomachs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-27-2005 |
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Film An Uneven But Rich Tapestrynew
Though Nine Lives' intent is not always clear and certain vignettes yield fewer rewards than others, the film ends on a transcendent high note, and gives a sense that in a reckoning of our own mortality and the short, precious time we have here, we are all truly connected.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nine Lives, Rodrigo García
A Trio of Excellent Opportunities to Lose Your Lunchnew
Favoring the artsy side, but unafraid of a little muck, is the pan-Asian horror anthology Three ... Extremes, which ties together three short works by Hong Kong-based Fruit Chan, Korea’s Chan-wook Park, and from Japan, the gleefully disturbed Takashi Miike.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
10-26-2005 |
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Singing Povertynew
Ben Schyan and Robert Matthews’ debut doesn’t try to hide that it’s a no-budget production.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
10-26-2005 |
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Partly Funny, With a 65 Percent Chance of Redemptionnew
Director Gore Verbinski tells a tale of yet another loner in the long line of hapless American-middle-class movie characters.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Monsters Inknew
Bennett Miller’s movie plumbs the personal toll that Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood took on its subjects and its author.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Sins of the Fathernew
The man looking for his missing 6-year-old daughter in this deeply moving film is the kind of pariah most urban dwellers will do anything to avoid.
A Family Adriftnew
Nothing in Noah Baumbach's filmography suggests he had within him something as treacherously funny and wrenchingly sad as The Squid and the Whale.
Love in the Late Afternoonnew
Steve Martin stretches his novella into a modest, melancholy and affecting film.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Martin, Shopgirl
The Moore, The Merrier
The Legend of Zorro recalls the preposterous fun of 1970s James Bond.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-25-2005 |
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