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'Mind Control with Derren Brown': He's Not a Psychicnew
Yet Brown is better at what he does than just about everybody on the planet who claims to have supernatural powers.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
08-14-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
'Becoming Jane': Austen Transformednew
The film boils all of Austen's various pen-and-ink plots down to their cliche essence and crams them into a single overly familiar narrative.
Weekly Alibi |
Devin D. O'Leary |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Becoming Jane, Julian Jarrold
Werewolves Go Nowhere in 'Skinwalkers'new
This is one of those horror entries that reminds you of how much mediocrity there is in the genre.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: James Isaacs, Skinwalkers
'The Yacoubian Building': Contradictory Caironew
The film is a towering melodrama, highly ambitious but satisfying -- Hamed deserves praise for creating something so illuminating and unblinking from a country known for censorship.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
'Rush Hour 3': A Crass Case of Diminishing Returnsnew
The latest in the franchise isn't worth your time -- if you want to see a truly funny buddy comedy, wait until next week and check out Superbad instead.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brett Ratner, Rush Hour 3
'My Best Friend': Who Needs Strangers?new
In the end, the film is too gimmicky -- it climaxes with Bruno on the French version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire -- to ever be a great movie, but it offers plenty of small pleasures.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Best Friend, Patrice Leconte
'Introducing the Dwights': An Indie Yawnernew
The only reason movies like this exist is to provide targeted upscale art-house audiences with colorfully ignorant lower-class exotics to whom they can vicariously feel superior.
Baltimore City Paper |
Ian Grey |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
'No End in Sight': Sobering Observations Soberly Presentednew
The truly horrible thing about Charles Ferguson's absolutely depressing documentary is that nothing it says is really new.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight
A Nerd Redux in 'Superbad'new
Michael Cera talks about playing nice guy to Jonah Hill's loud, on-the-make dude.
The Georgia Straight |
Ian Caddell |
08-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
Lee Anthony Cipolla's Home Moviesnew
The local lensman aims for a Hollywood career -- in Miami.
Miami New Times |
Joanne Green |
08-13-2007 |
Movies
'Rocket Science': Where Twee Meets Dweebynew
It's another twee coming-of-age flick that appeals to the trucker-hat-and-bell-bottom set but never pulls its head out of the suburban lawn.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
08-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeffrey Blitz, rocket science
Give the People What You Wantnew
For Hollywood, a happy summer means freedom from choice.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
08-13-2007 |
Movies
'No End in Sight': The Best Iraq Doc Yetnew
Charles Ferguson lays out the facts of the Iraq conflict in chilling, riveting detail.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
08-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Charles Ferguson, No End in Sight
'Moliere': A Noble Foolnew
A fantasy about Moliere is a commentary on the value of comedy.
Chicago Reader |
Ryan Wenzel |
08-13-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Laurent Tirard, Moliere
