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Eastwood Delivers a Knockoutnew
Glorious performances and Eastwood's confident direction result in a film that transcends the rules of its genre and shows us, with an unvarnished simplicity, how human beings struggle to come to terms with the unthinkable.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
02-05-2005 |
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Pot Calling the Tea Kettle Blacknew
With this period piece set in 1950 London, British filmmaker Mike Leigh delivers his best picture in some time, and with it he seemingly aims to provoke conversation about the ethics of abortion.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-05-2005 |
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Tags: Mike Leigh, Vera Drake
An Unsentimental Educationnew
Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-05-2005 |
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Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Bad Education
Shadow Playnew
There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
02-05-2005 |
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Tags: Uwe Boll, Alone in the Dark
Most Reviews of Wes Anderson's Latest Have Missed the Point
A lot of film critics are calling Wes Anderson's latest film a self-indulgent near miss. He can weather the abuse, having made a film that might be grim stuff were it not so dazzling and charming in its presentation.
Black & White |
David Pelfrey |
02-03-2005 |
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Cinematic Darknessnew
It's a bad week for horror movies: Alone in the Dark is memorably terrible.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-03-2005 |
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Tags: Uwe Boll, Alone in the Dark
Horrid Horrornew
Hide and Seek leaves viewers with questions, like: Why is Robert De Niro trying to destroy his career?
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-03-2005 |
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Tags: Hide and Seek, John Polson
Viewers May Be Moved Despite Themselvesnew
The documentary is about how one rural Whitwell, Tenn., middle school in 1998 built a remarkable monument commemorating the Holocaust. Honoring documentary convention to the letter, the film rests on a backhanded compliment.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-03-2005 |
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It Could Be Science FIction, But It's Based in Realitynew
Moolaadé is an impassioned treatise, not only against the mutilation of women, but also against the power structures of village life, where men are revered as gods and women are little more than livestock.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-03-2005 |
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Tags: Moolaadé, Ousmane Sembene
Listening to Klingonnew
The documentary Earthlings transports us into a secret society ruled by codes and wonders all its own, the province of Trekkies who joined the Klingon Language Institute.
Love Lettersnew
In this moving, deceptively simple film, a weary Chinese mailman, his son and their dog take three days to complete a grueling trek to remote villages in south Hunan.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
02-02-2005 |
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Same Old Songnew
A kindly teacher wins over his wayward students in this syrupy, hackneyed French film.
Phoenix New Times |
Melissa Levine |
02-01-2005 |
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Still Hardnew
One of the best sequences of this meditation on war and suffering takes place in the ruined Sarajevo public library, a gutted shell, with fire barrels burning in the corners of a great empty room in which people are sorting through piles of books, trying to catalogue them.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
01-31-2005 |
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Nixon's the Onenew
With apologies to Arthur Miller, Niels Mueller's thoughtful drama might be advertised as Death of a Furniture Salesman.
Boulder Weekly |
Thomas Delapa |
01-28-2005 |
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Auld Lang Assaultnew
This John Carpenter remake may be even better than the original.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-28-2005 |
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