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'Terror's Advocate' Creates a Visceral Ethical Disquietnew
Barbet Schroeder adds to his library of alluring evil with this documentary.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Stephen Beachy |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
A Deep Sense of Place Inspired 'Disappearances'new
Some time ago, filmmaker Jay Craven decided to make a Western, the kind of story that typically features characters whose epic struggle unfolds in a land devoid of law, tradition, religion, and culture. Here's the catch: he wanted it to take place in New England.
Charleston City Paper |
John Stoehr |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: disappearances, Jay Craven
What a Gas it is Getting Old With Sidney Lumetnew
Devil is a fantastically sinister thriller with a twining, fucked-up family plot that would be great even if Lumet didn't make it.
Chicago Newcity |
Ray Pride |
10-31-2007 |
Reviews
'Bee Movie' Brings Plenty of Stingers, but Not Much Point
Jerry Seinfeld's film boasts a fair number of funny individual jokes -- what it lacks is any idea how to tie them all together.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-30-2007 |
Reviews
Director Justin Lin Makes Bruce Lee ... Comedy?new
The Better Luck Tomorrow director creates his first comedy, a mockumentary supposedly unearthed from the '70s about the completion of Bruce Lee's final film Game of Death, completed with rather obvious body doubles when Lee died after only 40 minutes of footage had been shot.
OC Weekly |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Finishing the Game, Justin Lin
'Reservation Road' Hits a Dead Endnew
Men have a hard time with feelings. This seems to be the major revelation in Reservation Road, a big ol' masculine melodrama about loss, grief and guilt.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Cindy Fuchs |
10-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Reservation Road, Terry George
'Control' Pays Quiet Tribute to Ian Curtisnew
Bleakly beautiful and elegantly sparse, Anton Corbijn's Control is as rigorously sober and yet filled with emotion as the best of Joy Division's songs.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Sam Adams |
10-30-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Control, Anton Corbijn
'Dan in Real Life' is a Bit Too Rosy for the Real Worldnew
It isn't crap, but it's about as pleasant as a movie can get without actually being any good.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
10-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Dan in Real Life, Peter Hedges
Jude Law and Michael Caine on 'Sleuth'new
In an updated version of a modern mystery classic, the two actors duel on-screen as two men who love -- or at least want to possess -- the same woman.
The Georgia Straight |
Mark Leiren-Young |
10-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth
Thou Shalt Notnew
This family-oriented adaptation of the Book of Exodus is the inaugural film in a planned franchise of crudely animated Bible stories.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Guilt and Consequencesnew
Crime and Punishment comes to New England in this story about the aftermath of a child's death.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Reservation Road, Terry George
It Takes a Villagenew
This movie's high-concept premise would be easy to dismiss were it not so flawlessly executed.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Life Without the Explosionsnew
The naturalistic indie talker unhurriedly follows a young woman through her days and nights – Nerf-ball games at work, waiting for the bus, and a series of relationships fueled by “chronic dissatisfaction.”
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Hoist the Sailsnew
The documentary Deep Water tells the white-knuckled true story of the first single-handed around-the-world yacht competition.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
All in the Familynew
What passes for real life in this Steve Carell film is as genially inoffensive and predictable as the average TV sitcom.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Dan in Real Life, Peter Hedges
