AltWeeklies Wire
Catch Them If You Cannew
Steven Spielberg's dour tale of assassination gets lost in a morass of moral ambivalence.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-21-2005 |
Reviews
Teddy Baernew
With the hit movie Cinderella Man being released on video, Max Baer Jr. is objecting to its portrayal of his father, boxer Max Baer, as a brute.
Reno News & Review |
Dennis Myers |
12-20-2005 |
Movies
The Plot Thickens
It's a shame the film's postreunification milieu is unlikely to resonate as much with Americans. Zucker never gets too zany or too maudlin, and its petty characters could serve as stand-ins for just about anyone.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dani Levy, Go for Zucker
Stalin the Family
A Meet the Parents retread with the kind of giant, kooky-but-loving brood without which holiday comedies wouldn't exist, The Family Stone will have you slapping your forehead, not your knee.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Beyond Xanadu
The Keeper is earnest and likable, if a bit too stolid for anyone without a pre-existing interest in the subject.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Pronounced Dead
Like The Last Samurai, Memoirs of a Geisha is a well-researched, if misguided, tribute to Japan's bad old days of patriarchy and strict social hierarchy.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Where the Queer and the Antelope Play
A love story in which you can't feel the love might sound like a dismal failure, but in Brokeback Mountain's case, it ain't.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
Cheeky Monkey
How did Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace's relatively simple story get stretched to such epic proportions? Well, the movie is first a smaller-scale Titanic, then a ballsier Jurassic Park -- and that's before the monkey business even gets going.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-19-2005 |
Reviews
All He Wants for Xmas Is to Be on TVnew
A critic looks at three television shows absurd enough to warrant that he make a guest appearance on them in 2006.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
12-19-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
The Truman Shownew
Philip Seymour Hoffman brings the author of In Cold Blood to life in Capote, having worked his way into the character from "the outside in."
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
12-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Spurning Japanese
Memoirs of a Geisha finds general beauty, but loses the cultural specifics.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
12-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Memoirs of a Geisha, Rob Marshall
'Pokes Peeknew
Figuring, no doubt correctly, that more people will identify with loss than with gay lust, Lee gets the icky parts over quickly. Not only is it the love that dare not speak its name, it doesn’t speak at all.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
12-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Gorilla Filmmakingnew
Peter Jackson’s King Kong sports a pot belly, and it’s not a good look. His film carries extra baggage, too, nearly an hour and half’s worth.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
12-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: King Kong, Peter Jackson
Western Weepienew
The beautifully wrought film is a tragic love story (not a "gay cowboy movie") that’s defined by its staggering heartbreak.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
The Eighth Wonder of the Worldnew
Peter Jackson's remake is a corker of an action/monster movie: part RKO serial; part square-jawed, manly romp; and part classic journey into the unknown that recalls and references Heart of Darkness.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: King Kong, Peter Jackson
