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Operatic Spider-Man 2 improves on predecessornew
Since Batman, superhero films have frequently gone for gothic self-importance, but Spider-Man 2 brings camp back into the formula. The operatic, at times overblown adventure enthralls and amuses the audience without overtly winking at it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-01-2004 |
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Tags: Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 2
Revenge of the Nerdnew
The eight-limbed villain eclipses the hero in this comic-book sequel. Couldn’t glum, self-doubting Spidey afford to loosen up just a bit?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-30-2004 |
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Tags: Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 2
An Open Letter to Michael Moorenew
Michael Moore has produced a cogent negative statement on the war writ large enough to get everyone's attention, but the publisher of The Memphis Flyer would like him to remove two clips that seem unfair.
The Memphis Flyer |
Kenneth Neill |
06-29-2004 |
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Undercover and All Made Upnew
Wayans brothers' comedy depends on latex and whitewash.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-24-2004 |
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Tiger Beatnew
Two tiger cubs separated during infancy are cast to the winds of fate in French-occupied Indochina.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-24-2004 |
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Notebook Needs Another Draftnew
The love sap flows freely in this movie romance told in retrospect.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
06-24-2004 |
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Festival Charmer Graduates to Big Timenew
Indie film about teenage dork celebrates the youthful underdog.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-24-2004 |
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Tags: Jared Hess, Napoleon Dynamite
Michael Moore Sets Off Sparksnew
Moore's agitprop is a political scorcher.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-24-2004 |
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Like Father, Like Sonnew
Melvin Van Peebles' son Mario pays tribute to his father's groundbreaking blaxploitation film Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, and also settles a few old Oedipal scores along the way.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-24-2004 |
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Documentary Takes Respectful, Sober Look at Poet's Lifenew
The documentary gives you the itch to get reacquainted with Bukowski's work, preferably while sitting astride a barstool.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-24-2004 |
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Poultry, sexual awakening make for queasy brewnew
The Mudge Boy is about a sexual rite of passage with as much murky, disturbing content as stories of female sexual awakening, but Mudge's tale of chicken-fried yokels and brutal life down-on-the-farm shows a fairly conventional, crude view of rural life that never quite jibes with its art film trappings.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-24-2004 |
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Tags: Michael Burke, The Mudge Boy
The Notebook is a hokey bag of Southern clichesnew
Everything from set design to dialogue to historical detail in The Notebook feels fake in this adaptation of crybaby novelist Nicholas Sparks' best-selling book.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-24-2004 |
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Tags: Nick Cassavetes, The Notebook
Fahrenheit challenges post-9/11 politicsnew
Addressing material that Hollywood has taken pains to avoid, Fahrenheit 9/11 lights a fire under its viewers and challenges the sacred cows of 21st-century America.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-24-2004 |
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Tags: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Moore of the Same, But Less Convincingnew
You can share Moore’s every political sentiment in the movie yet fail to be persuaded by his logic. It’s all associative, an argument by induction and inference. All the cheap shots and easy cuts—Iraqis bleed, Bush smirks—fail to make a coherent case.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-23-2004 |
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Tags: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11
Dodgeball Dazzles Dimly
Sloppy, shoddily constructed, so limp at times that a year’s supply of Viagra couldn’t stiffen it up, the movie plays like a season’s worth of America’s Funniest Home Videos as hosted by an aggro, way-macho Ben Stiller character.
Birmingham Weekly |
Scot Lockman |
06-21-2004 |
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