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Duff Enufnew
Less a feature film than 90 minutes of tweenage feminine wish fulfillment, The Perfect Man is like Teen People come to life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Rosman, The Perfect Man
Mr. Poetry Nexusnew
Poet Peter Gizzi has tramped though the poetry backwaters from C-Span to Housatonic and perhaps on to Calcutta.
Valley Advocate |
Andrew Varnon |
06-16-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Peter Gizzi
Bale Bats It Out of the Park … Er, Cavenew
Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
A, B, C, Dancenew
The filmmakers would have us embrace this work as though it were the Spellbound of grade-school dance documentaries, but the film quickly loses its footing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mad Hot Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo
Lord of This Castlenew
The latest from animation master Hayao Miyazaki is ravishingly beautiful but narratively inferior to all his other flims.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Roses for an Unmarked Killing Fieldnew
In his blog, John Sugg follows the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, accused of the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Mississippi.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John Sugg |
06-16-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Cross the T for Twisty Tanglenew
In his English-language debut, Gael García Bernal plays one of the sides of a twisted love triangle.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dot the I, Matthew Parkhill
Suspicious Mindsnew
Even though grande dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench share the screen in this drama, their immense talents are mostly wasted.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Dance, Ladies in Lavender
'Til Death Do Us Partnew
Pitt and Jolie, reduced to being used as set dressing in their own star vehicle, nevertheless pack a lot of bang for the buck.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Doug Liman, Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Fun With Numbersnew
One of the most loaded statistics around, sex-offender recidivism rates, is also one of the most commonly misstated.
Batman Begins Examines the Man Behind the Masknew
Batman Begins breaks from tradition by compellingly tracing the motives that lead a brooding billionaire to pick fights dressed as an airborne rodent.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
No More Lethal Goofsnew
Hospitals jump on board a campaign to accidentally kill fewer patients.
Spring Creek's Short Leashnew
Montana's behavior modification programs watch their troubled teen charges like hawks. Recent lawsuits and allegations of abuse raise the question: who's watching them?
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
06-16-2005 |
Children & Families
Tags: children & families
Monkeys With Typewritersnew
A book of work by spoken-word poets at Atlanta's Java Monkey has corny confessions and ego-overblown self-expressions. But it doesn't hold up to the silent treatment it's given on the page.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Bell |
06-16-2005 |
Poetry
Tags: Poetry Reviews
Ralph Reed Bashed Gandhi With Borrowed Wordsnew
Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia Ralph Reed said Gandhi had urged the Jewish race to commit collective suicide, among other things.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Doug Monroe |
06-16-2005 |
Commentary
