AltWeeklies Wire
'The Air I Breathe': Breathless Cyclenew
How many strangely paired actors does it take to ruin a movie?
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
01-24-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Jieho Lee, The Air I Breathe
'4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days': There Will Be Abortionnew
Romanian filmmakers haven’t reinvented realism, but most American film critics are too afraid to disagree.
New York Press |
Armond White |
01-24-2008 |
Reviews
When Monsters Attack!new
Cloverfield is thrilling, but proceed with caution if prone to motion sickness.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
Criminal Behaviornew
Diane Lane should have known better to take part in formulaic crime crap like this.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gregory Hoblit, Untraceable
Billy's Worldnew
A kid who marches to the beat of his own drum becomes a hero in this inspiring documentary.
Tucson Weekly |
Irene Messina |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Billy the Kid, Jennifer Venditti
Supercriticsnew
With something resembling the Oscars coming up, our critics share their teenlike angst regarding 2007 films.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna and Bob Grimm |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Novel Gazingnew
Flash: Old white writer possibly irrelevant.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Daily Life in Sao Paulo is Anything but Dullnew
Director Chico Teixiera is best known for his documentaries -- his first film was the doc Favelas -- and his first narrative feature speaks to the honest and intimate way he is able to convey the life of an urban, middle-class Brazilian family.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Jennique Mason |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Toothed-vagina Ladies are Getting Away with Murdernew
I'm perfectly willing to accept that growing up next to a nuclear reactor might cause a girl to develop interlocking incisors in her vagina. (Things happen.) But I'm a little more skeptical that a year and a half of sexual abstinence will turn a teenage boy into a rapist.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mitchell Lichtenstein, Teeth
How the Mighty Have Fallennew
Though it gets its name from a Roman blood sport, American Gladiators takes most of its cues from Greek mythology.
San Antonio Current |
Luke Baumgarten |
01-23-2008 |
TV
Hollywood Product: 'Cloverfield'new
The bottom line: Cloverfield lives up to six months of online hype. Once the bad stuff starts going down, no one in the theater takes a breath for an hour. It even offers a fairly touching story of callow New Yorkers who find love and meaning in the teeth of disaster, amid all the holy-crap monster spectacle.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Cloverfield, Matt Reeves
'War/Dance' Tells a Harrowing Story of Hope & Survivalnew
By turns harrowing and cathartic, this documentary is about children caught up in the brutalities meted out by northern Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, whose soldiers have raped, killed and brutalized the populace for the past 20 years.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
'Persepolis' Celebrates Power of Two Graphic Art Formsnew
It boggles my mind that a French and Persian filmmaking team beat Americans to the punch with such a definitive adaptation of a graphic novel.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Boys Don't Crynew
Why the best romantic comedies aren't about women.
Charleston City Paper |
Conseula Francis |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 27 Dresses, Anne Fletcher
The Spooky Art of 'The Orphanage'new
The Orphanage is an effective, desperately unsettling ghost story that shows Hollywood how a horror movie should be done.
Charleston City Paper |
Nick Smith |
01-23-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Antonio Bayona, The Orphanage
