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Tough Lovenew
The typical boy-meets-girl romantic comedy is given an upgrade when it's suicide attempts that bring two people together. They marry each other to get away, and -- surprise, surprise -- fall in love.
Orlando Weekly |
Jessica Bryce Young |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Fatih Akin, Head-On
Pitching Wunew
Director Alice Wu talks about opening the doors that were shut in her face while making Saving Face
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alice Wu, Saving Face
Film Proves to be Uneven Rompnew
Despite loads of snappy banter provided by Wilson and Vaughn and lots of potentially slapstick situations, Wedding Crashers proves to be an uneven romp. The movie oversaturates some scenes with solid laughs and squanders other opportunities.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Carlton Hargro |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Not-So-Fantastic Fournew
The entire picture is a vulgar parade of hackwork FX, extreme sports, potty humor, bad WJRR rock and cheesecake shots.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tim Story, Fantastic Four
Dark Waternew
This well-made remake of Hideo Nakata's Japanese ghost story unfortunately shares too many essential details with a whole host of not-so-well-made movies: embattled but valiant mom, endangered kid, mournful dead girl and water, water everywhere.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dark Water, Walter Salles
Wedding Crashers Crashesnew
A dick-swingin' standout in a field of flaccid mainstream comedies, the hoped-for runaway hit Wedding Crashers actually has enough honest laughs to fill a 90-minute picture. Too bad it runs closer to two hours.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Roman Holler Daynew
Whether or not you consider yourself in the market for an Italian Mean Girls with a stronger political slant, filmmaker Paolo Virzì has taken the concept about halfway down the road to genuine revelation.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Before a Fallnew
Just as certain music critics will go gaga over the most pedestrian pop if it's sung through a mouthful of bad British teeth, so is the mediocre psychodrama My Summer of Love.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Cheeseburger in Purgatorynew
Maybe you can't fight city hall and maybe you can, but the rousing documentary McLibel proves that you can at least stand up to Mayor McCheese and live to talk about it.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Franny Armstrong, McLibel
Director's Ego Gets in the Way of Burlesque Documentarynew
Featuring film clips and interviews with burlesque icons, Pretty Things makes a case for the difference between the show-and-tell stripping of contemporary times and the slow-burn tease of classic burlesque -- despite the director's need for attention.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Liz Goldwyn, Pretty Things
Middle-Aged Identity Crisis is a Post-Graduate Experiencenew
King of the Corner is a mellow, shaggy, post-Graduate existential crisis in which an ordinary middle-aged man wakes up to his own life and wonders if that's all there is.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: King of the Corner, Peter Riegert
Film Crashes at the Intersection of Clever and Clichenew
Happy Endings, Don Roos' comedy of love, sex and parental instincts, joins Crash, Short Cuts and Magnolia as one of those films that trails countless intersecting characters across sprawling Los Angeles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Don Roos, Happy Endings
Tim Burton's Latest Film Is Sweetly Sinisternew
Tim Burton's remake matches the original film's tone of whimsy laced with rat poison, but in a vastly more entertaining retelling of the Dahlian classic.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Crock of the Bay
American cinema’s poster boy for excess blows up The Island.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Bay, The Island
Tear-Jerking Jerksnew
Wedding Crashers starts off as a sick, hilarious comedy before turning into a wannabe date movie.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
07-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
