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Captive Audiencenew
This Venezuelan film about the kidnappings that are endemic in Caracas bursts with stylish technique and gruesome tension.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
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Improper Conductnew
North Country is a powerful film about sexual harassment. Charlize Theron is Oscar-worthy in her role.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Down With Elizabethtownnew
Bad plot, bad dialogue, bad acting: It's Cameron Crowe's magnum opus!
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Reality Bites
Cynics have suggested that Hollywood loves no subject more than itself. And Reel Paradise proves that you don't need a big studio--or even the pretense of fiction--to make a self-important movie about movies.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2005 |
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Sugarcoated Tale
This DreamWorks production about a little girl and a special horse is slow-moving and treacly, and--unless you actually buy that bit of marketing flimflam about being "inspired by a true story"--it yields no surprises.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-20-2005 |
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Character Deferences
Set in Minnesota's Iron Range as Anita Hill testifies against Clarence Thomas on TV, North Country is a new Warner Bros. movie in the spirit of the old. It's based on one woman miner's crusade to be treated with decency.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2005 |
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A Reporter in Search of a Novel
Given a lurid case, a reporter becomes a film-noir character, stalking dark alleys in search of light. This setup works even if the reporter is a squeaky-voiced gay narcissist who combines the mannerisms of the Deep South with those of the Manhattan intellectual.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-20-2005 |
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Enemy Minesnew
Good filmmaking and bad conspire in the ultimately affecting sexual-harassment saga North Country.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
The Fastidious and the Furiousnew
Murder, adultery and good manners collide in an upper-crust British marriage.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies
Good Is The Operative Word
George Clooney's thrillingly topical film about the McCarthy vs. Murrow battle is as much about today's media as yesterday's...just replace the word "Communist" with "terrorist."
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
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A Horse Of A Similar Color
An inspirational, true-story sports movie screenwriter makes the jump to directing...with an inspirational, true-story sports movie.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
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This Whole Courtroom Drama's Out Of Order!
An Oscar-baiting tale of the country's first class-action sexual harassment suit goes from gritty to squishy on the stand.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: North Country, Nikki Caro
Should You Stay Or Should You Go Now?
Finding Neverland's director Marc Forster's slick execution of one of the dumbest ideas ever put to film.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
Head Casenew
Both patient and shrink could use some meds. So could the movie.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
The Rock In A Hard Place
Not even the normally engaging wrestler-turned-actor seems half-alive in Doom, the based-on-a-videogame movie that gives based-on-a-videogame movies a bad—well, worse—name.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: doom, Andrzej Bartkowiak
