AltWeeklies Wire
Feathers and Furnew
Everybody loves penguins, but there's another animal star lurking at the box office -- if you can see the elusive beast.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Carroll Ballard, Duma
Played for Foolsnew
The film offers such a pretty story of the 1913 United States Open, and one that's completely bogus.
Phoenix New Times |
Bill Gallo |
10-04-2005 |
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Proof Positivenew
In the tradition of A Beautiful Mind and Good Will Hunting comes Proof, a psychological drama about a math genius and the people who worship, care for, and endure him.
Miami New Times |
Melissa Levine |
10-03-2005 |
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Go Figurenew
A filmed adaptation of a four-character play about math wizardry seems doomed to wallow in esoterica, but Proof is at its strongest the closer it veers toward the multiplication tables.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Proof, John Madden, James D. Stern
Gruel Intentionsnew
Well, he's got the dinginess down. In Roman Polanski's interpretation of Dickens' Oliver Twist, the London streets see hungry, unwashed masses taunted by nearby reminders of unattainable solvency.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski
Review of Film: The Greatest Game Ever Playednew
The prospect of yet another uplifting, history-based Disney sports drama sounds like enough to make a grown man pull his head off his shoulders, but this Bill Paxton-directed golfing memoir is surprisingly easy to sit through.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Saigon but Not Forgottennew
It's almost impossible to review a film like Winter Soldier in the traditional sense of the verb.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
09-30-2005 |
Reviews
Strange Lovenew
While Corpse Bride is visually arresting and exceptionally witty, the characters and story are curiously uninvolving, and the movie’s scant 75-minute length, though time well spent, seems much more protracted.
Jackson Free Press |
Paul Dearing |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tim Burton, The Corpse Bride
Who Knows What Evils Lurk in the Heartnew
Cronenberg's new horror film implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what do we acquire from our environment?
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-29-2005 |
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Firefly Morphs Into Serenitynew
Joss Whedon's Western/sci-fi hybrid (which was canceled from TV but greenlighted for the movies) evinces the kind of swashbuckling bonhomie that made so many of us fall in love with the original Star Wars films.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joss Whedon, Serenity
Free Films in Fijinew
In this documentary, producer's rep John Pierson moves with his family to Fiji, hoping to leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a foreign culture, and, best of all, screen movies for the natives.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Reel Paradise, Steve James
A Fractured Fairy Talenew
The work of fantasist Neil Gaiman finally makes it to the screen with its innate sense of wonder intact, despite this sporadically overstuffed package of magic, mystery, and masked madwomen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dave McKean, MirrorMask
Pin Moneynew
This documentary about Americans' love of bowling traces our fascination through the sport's glory decades and eventual decline to its recent revival.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-29-2005 |
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Shallow Waters Run Deepnew
There's a crisp little thriller anchored in this movie about pretty people wearing skimpy swimwear in a beautiful locale.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Stockwell, Into the Blue
French Affairsnew
This French romantic comedy is little more than a heap of cliches whenever the director and star Yvan Attal's real-life wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg, disappears from the screen.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
09-29-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Happily Ever After, Yvan Attal
