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The Legend of Zorro

The film falls flat in its seriously siesta-inducing pace.

Washington City Paper | Mario Correa | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Martin Campbell, The Legend of Zorro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Antonio Banderas, Zorror

This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrolnew

As one night with the Texas Minutemen proves, the sinister legions of "The Drug Cartel" have little to fear from this latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us...

Austin Chronicle | Diana Welch | 10-27-2005 | Immigration

Tags: Immigration, ACLU, Texas, Minuteman, Minutemen, Smith, A.E., Chris, Claudia, Connie, Cornyn-Kyl, Gilchrist, guevara, hair, Jim, Klan, klux, ku, Laine, Lawless, legal, Leo, McCain-Kennedy, McGauley, Observers, Project, Ray, Reyes, Samaniego, Shannon, Simcox, Sylvestre, Terry, Trautman, Ybarra

Twee Hugger

The biographer is clearly smitten with his subject -- which is both blessing and curse.

Washington City Paper | Anne Marson | 10-27-2005 | Nonfiction

Tags: Belle and Sebastian, Belle and Sebastian: Just a Modern Rock Story, indie god, Paul Whitelaw, Stuart Murdoch

Writer-director Ben Younger seems to think that merely showing Rafi (Uma Thurman) and David (Bryan Greenberg) tonguing each other after each sparkless date is enough to make the audience believe in their romance.

Washington City Paper | Tricia Olszewski | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Ben Younger, Prime

Lost in Interpretation

Shopgirl, based on the novella by Steve Martin, will inevitably be viewed as Martin's Lost in Translation. But Martin, it turns out, is no Bill Murray.

Washington City Paper | Tricia Olszewski | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Steve Martin, Shopgirl, Anand Tucker, Claire Danes

Evocation of Madness

An immaculately art-directed plunge into bewilderment, Stay begins with a disorienting car crash that recalls the opening of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blue.

Washington City Paper | Mark Jenkins | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Marc Forster, Mark Jenkins, Stay

Unreal World

This film about a journalist's investigation of two former song-and-joke partners would have been more convincing with actors who played both sides of their characters.

Washington City Paper | Mark Jenkins | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Mark Jenkins, Kevin Bacon, Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies

International Pop Overthrow

Given the U.S. music press's penchant for pithy descriptors, The Earlies' publicist must have had a tough time putting into bullet points just what, exactly, this bunch of wacked-out weirdoes is up to.

Washington City Paper | Shannon Zimmerman | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: The Earlies, earlies, indie music, shannon zimmerman, These Were the Earlies

Gentleman's Seasnew

A lot of us have long thought that Jeff Daniels was an innocuous onscreen presence, and now it's time to take it all back.

Orlando Weekly | Steve Schneider | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale

Spill the Weinsteinnew

My Big Fat Independent Movie is a pleasant surprise, if only because a handful of seemingly credible reports had indicated the film was the Antichrist.

Orlando Weekly | Steve Schneider | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: My Big Fat Independent Movie, Philip Zlotorynski

Tru Colorsnew

With the concepts of artistic representation and exploitation becoming hopelessly blurred, the need for Capote couldn't be more compelling.

Orlando Weekly | Steve Schneider | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller

Kidnappednew

This is the story of seven strangers picked to live in a house … but only for a few hours, thanks to inhaled poison that's rotting their bodies from the inside.

Orlando Weekly | Steve Schneider | 10-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Saw II, Darren Lynn Bausman