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Threesome Gone Badnew
Atom Egoyan's erotic thriller leaves a few too many loose ends.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-17-2005 |
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Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
The Usual Subtextsnew
The Johnny Cash biopic misinterprets the Man In Black as just another troubled artist in search of redemption.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
11-16-2005 |
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Hogwarts and Hormonesnew
The dancing lessons are as scary as the dragons for our pubescent wizards.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
11-16-2005 |
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Horse & Scissorsnew
Bryant "HairKutt" Johnson's attempt to quit heroin cold-turkey is the subject of an hourlong documentary that elicits tears, cheers and laughs.
Riverfront Times |
Mike Seely |
11-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Scholle, Best Social Documentary at the New York Independent Film and Video Festival, Curtis Elliott and Ben Scholle, Great Smoky Mountains, HairKutt, Maurice Reese Bradley, St. Louis International Film Festival., top documentary feature honors at Cinema St. Louis' Independent Filmmaker Showcase
Spell It Outnew
The film reduces Myla Goldberg's novel to a series of shallow metaphors, and it overplays every single one of them.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
11-15-2005 |
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Spells Like Teen Spirit
The magic comes from the character growth in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
11-15-2005 |
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Bum Rapnew
Rare is the movie that so perfectly critiques itself; 50 Cent sounds articulate in his raps, but as a lead actor, he talks like his mouth is filled with food.
Houston Press |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-14-2005 |
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Aboard Gamenew
Neither pandering nor dull, Zathura plays exactly like a no-limits replica of the kind of space adventure that imaginative kids left to their own devices might enact.
Dallas Observer |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-14-2005 |
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Protocols of Zion
This is a rambling and inconclusive but intermittently incisive tour of neo-Nazis, radical Muslims, and other conspiracy-inclined types.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-11-2005 |
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Romance Over Glovesnew
Claire Danes helps Steve Martin's novella Shopgirl finally come to life.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
11-11-2005 |
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Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
War Is Murdernew
Jarhead has a lot going for it, including realistic soldiers and Jake Gyllenhaal's bod.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
11-11-2005 |
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Tags: Jarhead, Sam Mendes
Palestine Now?new
Even though there's an implied pacifist message in his film Paradise Now, the Nazareth-born filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad says he wants audiences to make up their own minds about how Palestinian rights might be achieved.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
11-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hany Abu-Assad, Paradise Now
Austen’s Powernew
To judge from Joe Wright’s adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen may have invented the tracking shot.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
11-11-2005 |
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Alien-Busting Adventuresnew
Jon Favreau's sort-of-sequel to Jumanji is full of nonsense physics and missed opportunities, though it almost redeems itself via its realistically fractious portrayal of brothers forced into a playtime gone weirdly cosmic.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
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Tags: Jon Favreau, Zathura
Hip-Hop Hypocrisiesnew
Determined to star in his own 8 Mile, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson comes up a day late and a dollar short.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-11-2005 |
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