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Condition Terminalnew
This two-person character study features lovely performances that are models of restraint in what otherwise might have been a soppy melodrama.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Bella
Happiness is a Warm Gunnew
The Beatles and Jesse James fight to draw.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Matt Brunson |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Kevin Bacon Gets the Third Degreenew
The formerly Footloose actor brings home the you-know-what in dramatic fashion.
NOW Magazine |
Barrett Hooper |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alison Eastwood, Rails & Ties
'Rails & Ties' is Too Predictable
Alison Eastwood makes a tentative directorial debut with a made-for-TV-quality script by tin-eared Mickey Levy.
Tags: Alison Eastwood, Rails & Ties
'Gone Baby Gone' Feels Like Two Narratives Pasted Together
For his directing debut Ben Affleck adapts a Dennis Lehane novel that resists being converted into the usual three-act structure like a circle being jammed into a square.
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
'Wristcutters: A Love Story' is Wretched
This film takes such an arch tone by tacitly endorsing suicide that it spends most of its time in narrative freefall.
The Future of Joe Strummer on Film
Julien Temple, the director of the notable Sex Pistols documentary Filth and the Fury, proves he's the right man to make a documentary about the Clash's late frontman.
'Lars and the Real Girl' is Surprisingly Touching
Screenwriter Nancy Oliver has crafted a romantic story about a lonely introvert who discovers an ad hoc method of self-therapy in the guise of an anatomically correct silicone love doll.
Sidney Lumet's Long Journeynew
The venerable director returns with a devilish thriller.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
'Martian Child' is a New Magical Realist Film
It focuses on the primal fear of abandonment of a young orphaned boy named Dennis (Bobby Coleman) who professes to be from Mars.
Tags: Martian Child, Menno Meyjes
Playing Down on Her Luck, Amy Ryan's Star Risesnew
"I hope people ask me, 'Where did you find that local actress?,'" Ben Affleck told Amy Ryan when he cast her as a wreck of a single mother in his directing debut, Gone Baby Gone.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
'Paranoid Park': Nothing Happens
Paranoid Park may be the best of the Van Sant's last four films, but that isn't saying much.
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
'American Gangster' Doesn't Rise to the Level of 'Scarface'
Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe deliver inspired performances as rivals from opposite sides of the law in director Ridley Scott's true-crime epic.
Tags: American Gangster, Ridley Scott
'The District' is Comically Grotesquenew
Nothing and everything in the film works, but there are bursts of impressive creative energy that juice up the movie every time it starts to slacken, and you have to give it credit for being, as far as I know, the world's first Hungarian animated quasi-political sexually explicit rap musical.
Montreal Mirror |
Mark Slutsky |
10-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Aron Gauder, The District
Cristian Mungiu Goes Beyond Abortionnew
"When I sat down to write it, I wasn't setting out to make a film about abortion," the director says of his gritty, Palme d'Or-winning drama.
Montreal Mirror |
Matthew Hays |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
