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Sex and the Married Mannew

Kinsey enshrines the scientist at the expense of a more rigorous and more profound scrutiny.

Austin Chronicle | Kimberley Jones | 11-28-2004 | Reviews

Holiday Pap and Circumstancenew

Christmas With the Kranks is a film so utterly denuded of genuine holiday charm that it ranks with Santa Claus Conquers the Martians as one of the most jaw-droppingly abysmal seasonal efforts yet released.

Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov | 11-28-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Joe Roth, Christmas With the Kranks

You Can Call Me Alnew

Oliver Stone has achieved the impossible: He's made the life of Alexander the Great seem boring.

Austin Chronicle | Marc Savlov | 11-28-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander

Hollywood Product: Sponge Delights Adults and Kids Alikenew

Quippy snippets about the sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea include flesh factor (just about every character is seen in their underwear), cameo (David Hasselhoff) and best line ("You're a knuckle-headed spaz-a-tron").

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Heather Kuldell | 11-26-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Stephen Hillenburg, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Atmospheric Thriller Loses Steamnew

The Machinist is the kind of story that probably sounded great on paper, with its mounting sense of dread and spooky flourishes like a refrigerator oozing some problematic fluid. But writer Scott Kosar's psychological thriller is relatively lifeless onscreen.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Felicia Feaster | 11-26-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Brad Anderson, The Machinist

Alexander the Not So Greatnew

With Alexander, under the command of Oliver Stone, the resurgent genre marches to its Waterloo. At nearly three enervating hours, Stone's trudge through the life of Alexander the Great could put epic films in bad odor for years.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 11-26-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Oliver Stone, Alexander

Liam Neeson Gives Haunting Performance as Sex Expert in Kinseynew

The biopic Kinsey lays out just how much we didn't know before the Indiana professor began his explosive explorations. The film engrossingly shows how Kinsey's research resisted the forces of ignorance and moralism, breaking ground with the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and its feminine follow-up in 1953.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 11-26-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Bill Condon, Kinsey

Welcome to the Dollhousenew

Strung out on poppets, puppets, and Seed of Chucky. It's the perfect double-bill match for the equally unholy Team America: World Police.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Kimberly Chun | 11-24-2004 | Reviews

Tags: animation, Don Mancini, horror movies, puppets, Seed of Chucky

Paradise Foundnew

Finding Neverland features near-perfect performances and writing.

Tucson Weekly | Bob Grimm | 11-24-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland

The Golden Film of Ballooningnew

A clichéd stalker story benefits from some beautiful artistic vision in Enduring Love.

Tucson Weekly | James DiGiovanna | 11-24-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Roger Michell, Enduring Love

Holiday Films Focus on the Fixatednew

A round-up of opening throughout the holiday season.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Curt Holman | 11-24-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Various Directors, Various Films

Peter Panachenew

In adapting Allan Knee's play The Man Who Was Peter Pan, Forster indulges in broad, maudlin melodrama via his favorite topics (lost children, family wreckage), but gradually, to his credit, he rises from the plentiful syrup to deliver touching poetry.

Phoenix New Times | Gregory Weinkauf | 11-24-2004 | Reviews

Tags: Marc Forster, Finding Neverland