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Middle-Aged Identity Crisis is a Post-Graduate Experiencenew
King of the Corner is a mellow, shaggy, post-Graduate existential crisis in which an ordinary middle-aged man wakes up to his own life and wonders if that's all there is.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
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Tags: King of the Corner, Peter Riegert
Film Crashes at the Intersection of Clever and Clichenew
Happy Endings, Don Roos' comedy of love, sex and parental instincts, joins Crash, Short Cuts and Magnolia as one of those films that trails countless intersecting characters across sprawling Los Angeles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-14-2005 |
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Tags: Don Roos, Happy Endings
Tim Burton's Latest Film Is Sweetly Sinisternew
Tim Burton's remake matches the original film's tone of whimsy laced with rat poison, but in a vastly more entertaining retelling of the Dahlian classic.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
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Crock of the Bay
American cinema’s poster boy for excess blows up The Island.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-14-2005 |
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Tags: Michael Bay, The Island
Tear-Jerking Jerksnew
Wedding Crashers starts off as a sick, hilarious comedy before turning into a wannabe date movie.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
07-13-2005 |
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Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Breaking Barriersnew
Miranda July makes an art film/love story that's totally sweet.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
07-13-2005 |
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Unassuming Brooklyn Roofer Raises Guerrilla Armynew
Roofer by day. Revolutionary by night. Dutch filmmaker Klaarje Quirjins follows a primary fundraiser and gunrunner for the Kosovo Liberation Army in her new PBS documentary.
Dig Boston |
Paul McMorrow |
07-13-2005 |
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Johnny Depp and Tim Burton Too Weird Even for Wonkanew
Burton's Wonka world comes close to being lusciously sweet brain candy, but melts into a gooey puddle of ego-stroking instead.
Dig Boston |
Violet Glaze |
07-13-2005 |
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Hauteur Theory
Because he can’t get over himself, Tim Burton squeezes himself into Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-12-2005 |
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Dark Alleysnew
A documentary shows what appears to be left of the sport of bowling: a touching combination of brave striving, low comedy and back-street tragedy.
Riverfront Times |
Bill Gallo |
07-12-2005 |
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Embryonic Death
Che Guevera would've been proud of the Eastern European sensibility Walter Salles brings to Dark Water, written by a guy who apparently has some buried, unresolved issues with his Mama's womb.
Dayton City Paper |
Aaron Epple |
07-08-2005 |
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Tags: Dark Water, Walter Salles
Battling Demonsnew
Spielberg tackles homeland insecurities.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
07-08-2005 |
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That Obscure Object of Desirenew
This second directorial feature by Agnes Jaoui is just as ambitious and character-centered as her first.
Dayton City Paper |
Aaron Epple |
07-08-2005 |
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Tags: Agnès Jaoui, Look at Me
Meanwhile, Back at the Raunch
Wedding Crashers recalls a golden era of unapologetic crude comedy -- at least for a while.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-08-2005 |
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Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Tripping the Four Fantastic
Marvel's first family comes to the big screen in an aggressively (and appropriately) half-assed endeavor.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
07-08-2005 |
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