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And You Thought Sitting Next to a Crying Baby Was Bad...
Wes Craven's decent thriller initiates Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy into the mile high club.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
08-18-2005 |
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Match Made in Heaven
Jim Jarmusch and Bill mother@%*#in' Murray reunite for a feature film that brings out the accessible best in them both.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
08-18-2005 |
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Nasty As They Wanna Be
The funniest cast in documentary history lets us in on a very dirty inside joke.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
08-18-2005 |
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Worth the Wait
Steve Carell becomes a man in his first leading role, and reveals himself to be a potent performer.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
08-18-2005 |
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Revenge Is a Dish Best Served With the Claw-End of a Hammer
This beautiful Korean revenge flick hits like a hammer, feels like a kiss.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
08-18-2005 |
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9 Songs and 2046: Kung Fu Porn and Humpin' to Franz Ferdinandnew
Although they seem like exact opposites, Wong Kar-wai's 2046 and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs both succeed in making watching sex on screen completely uninteresting.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
08-17-2005 |
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Tags: Various Directors, Multiple Titles
Sometimes a Fantasy
Terry Gilliam comfortably treads familiar surreal ground in The Brothers Grimm.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-16-2005 |
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Tags: Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm
The Life Lethargicnew
As intriguing as Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Broken Flowers, might be, it nevertheless feels like something we've all seen too many times before.
Tags: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch
State of Fearnew
Kate Hudson and a supporting cast of stereotypes sleepwalk through The Skeleton Key as British director Iain Softley continues the time-honored tradition of turning Louisiana into a sticky, icky gumbo of cliches.
Tags: Iain Softley, The Skeleton Key
Swamp Thingnew
Though probably not intended, The Skeleton Key is one of 2005's funniest films, bested only by the first two-thirds of Wedding Crashers, all of The Aristocrats, and that part in Stealth where the airplane starts sassing Josh Lucas.
Phoenix New Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
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Southern Discomfortnew
A transplanted son revisits his Carolina roots in the ambitious drama Junebug.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
08-15-2005 |
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Working Bluenew
The Aristocrats goes inside the dirtiest joke ever told and reveals a nugget of unadulterated joy.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
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Plane and Simple
Wes Craven's Red Eye offers a lesson in making a taut, efficient thriller.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-12-2005 |
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Tags: Wes Craven, Red Eye
Hoodoo You Think You're Fooling?new
A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-12-2005 |
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Tags: Iain Softley, The Skeleton Key
Scenes From a Former Marriagenew
Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-12-2005 |
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Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Saraband
