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Alan Ball's 'Towelhead' is Predictably All Wetnew
Towelhead is the worst movie of its kind since Little Children.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-11-2008 |
Reviews
The Coen Brothers' Love of Idiosyncrasy is at Its Best in This America-skewering Farcenew
Burn After Reading is a pie-in-the-face comedy. You don't know what hit you until it's over.
New York Press |
Armond White |
09-11-2008 |
Reviews
Fall TV Flies Without Pilotsnew
New fall series are traditionally unveiled to advertisers in May and TV critics in July, but not this year.
Boston Phoenix |
Joyce Millman |
09-11-2008 |
TV
Tags: TV, fall preview
Autumn Peeves: Fall Films Have Full Agendasnew
This is an election year, after all, and those trying to escape the issues are just going to have to stay home and watch all the campaign ads on TV.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-11-2008 |
Movies
Tags: fall films
Meet Fatih Akin, the Most Exciting German (and Turkish) Director of His Timenew
Akin is the young director whose breakthrough film Head-On was an international hit three years ago.
INDY Week |
Godfrey Cheshire |
09-11-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Edge of Heaven, Faith Akin
'Burn After Reading': A Country for Ridiculous Mennew
Burn After Reading hearkens back to Coen classics Oh Brother Where Art Thou and The Big Lebowski, films propelled inexorably forward by bizarre characters and slashing humor.
The Coen Brothers' Latest is an Entertaining Triflenew
Burn After Reading's madcap tone recalls Coen projects like The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, although it doesn’t reach the heights of sublime absurdity that those movies (especially Lebowski) achieved.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
09-11-2008 |
Reviews
Bros, Butts, and More at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festivalnew
As I write this, a little over halfway though this year's visit, I haven't yet had a defining Toronto fest moment. Sure, there was the moment I became aware of just how jaded I am -- when I passed by a mob of gawkers and flashbulbs and realized I didn't give a rat's ass about which celebrity had incited such a tizzy. But so far, I haven't seen a film that truly dazzled me.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
09-11-2008 |
Movies
Bummer: The Fourth Season of 'Weeds' is a Comedownnew
The Showtime dramedy about a pot-dealing MILF is in its fourth season, and was recently renewed for two more -- but who's gonna keep watching? A few choice moments aside, the once-mighty Weeds has pretty much sucked this season.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
09-11-2008 |
TV
A Poolside Chat with Matthew McConaugheynew
In real life, McConaughey wears a shirt. Or at least he was wearing one the other day, sitting opposite the poolside bar atop the Hard Rock Hotel, a pinch of Skoal planted between his cheek and gums.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Sixty Six' is More Than Just a Coming-of-age Movienew
It'd be easy to look at it as a coming-of-age film, or a Jewish film, or even a foreign film (since it's British, and they talk funny). But to do so would be to disregard a treat of a movie that features some sharp performances.
San Diego CityBeat |
Anders Wright |
09-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Weiland, Sixty Six
'Burn After Reading' is No Lebowskinew
The writing is as solid as you'd hope, though the humor in this story of two bumbling gym employees who accidentally blackmail an ex-CIA agent and immediately get in over their heads with national-security heavies is mostly dry, situational, and low-key.
San Antonio Current |
Jeremy Martin |
09-10-2008 |
Reviews
'The Women': The Vagina Dialoguesnew
Chick flick lacks girl power.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
09-10-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Diane English, The Women
'Blackbird' Resembles 'Rashomon' Except the Victim is a Childnew
A critical success in Edinburgh, London and New York, this Olivier Award-winning drama places characters Ray and Una in the filthy breakroom of Ray's employer for 90 minutes to air their dirty laundry.
Willamette Week |
Ben Waterhouse |
09-10-2008 |
Reviews
The Coens Tighten the Beltwaynew
Burn After Reading, the subversive new comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, prowls around the corridors of CIA headquarters at Langley, but it isn’t ideological either, unless you consider a despairing cackle an ideology.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
09-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
