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Who Are These Masked Men?new

Clinic goes hunting for an identity yet again.

Washington City Paper | Anne Marson | 01-26-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Clinic, Visitations

Simple Mindsnew

The Shins stick to their formula while staying flexible.

Washington City Paper | Aaron Leitko | 01-26-2007 | Reviews

Tags: The Shins, Wincing the Night Away

What Would Dave Do?new

Self displays a remarkable ability to mesh the torments of father-son relationships with a satire of religious misogyny, painstakingly constructing a future society along the way.

Washington City Paper | Rayyan Al-Shawaf | 01-26-2007 | Fiction

Tags: The Book of Dave, Will Self

Reeling in the Yearsnew

Sheffield can make Pavement sound brand-new while reminding his readers that time is fleeting, and that loved ones need hugs more than anyone needs an expanded reissue of Slanted and Enchanted.

Washington City Paper | Brent Burton | 01-26-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time, Rob Sheffield

Nu Yellersnew

Not just for System of a Down fans, the film spends more time analyzing historical events than observing high jinks on the band bus.

Washington City Paper | Mark Jenkins | 01-26-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Carla Garapedian, Screamers

The One That Got Awaynew

Even more distracted than its heroine, Catch and Release barely takes time to grieve before plunging desperately into farce.

Washington City Paper | Mark Jenkins | 01-26-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Catch and Release, Susannah Grant

Well-Versednew

The only thing missing from this rich sampling of the Wilson aesthetic is a sustained inquiry into that aesthetic's limits.

Washington City Paper | Louis Bayard | 01-26-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Absolute Wilson, Katharina Otto-Bernstein

Public Mattersnew

Getting public records from the feds has grown more difficult, but new efforts hope to increase access.

Los Angeles CityBeat | Kevin Uhrich | 01-26-2007 | Civil Liberties

Tags: civil liberties

Throw it Backnew

Could a truly feminist, non-patronizing romantic dramedy even exist today, or ever?

Sacramento News & Review | Jonathan Kiefer | 01-26-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Catch and Release, Susannah Grant

A Boiling Over of the Massesnew

Talking 'bout a (Hungarian) revolution: Sebestyen provides an in-depth look at a nation struggling through such a transition.

Sacramento News & Review | Edward Dunn | 01-26-2007 | Nonfiction

Tags: Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Victor Sebestyen

Joe Carnahan's Crossroadsnew

Could it possibly stand to reason that Smokin' Aces, amounts to one big style-piled, guns-blazing, caper-circus metaphor for Carnahan's own creative life?

Sacramento News & Review | Jonathan Kiefer | 01-26-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Joe Carnahan, Smokin' Aces