AltWeeklies Wire
We Didn't Need Another Oceannew
Steven Soderbergh rehashes his least imaginative work.
New York Press |
Armond White |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
The Sinking Feelingnew
So, you've got source material from Raymond Carver ... you've got Laura Linney ... you've got Gabriel Byrne. What you haven't got is a comedy.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Jindabyne, Ray Lawrence
Think Summer Movies Are Just Toy Commercials?new
We check out the products they're pimping.
Summer Cinema: A Vaguely Helpful Guidenew
Ten films to see, five worth a look, and five more to shield your eyes from.
Besmirching Nancy Drew: The Mystery of the Missing Plot
Hopes get dashed for creating a fresh Nancy Drew movie franchise (there were four such films made in the late ‘30s) with this less-than-perfunctory filmic updatE of the spitfire sleuth from the revered children’s book series.
Tags: Andrew Fleming, Nancy Drew
'Paprika': An Animated Scattershot Clusterfuck
If tweaking under the influence of a determinedly Japanese mindset sounds like a good way to substitute a cinematic drug experience for the real thing, then go right ahead to Satoshi Kon's overflowing excess.
Tags: Paprika, Satoshi Kon
'Brand Upon The Brain!': A Fitting Evolutionary Step for Maddin
Guy Maddin is a kind of lo-fi David Lynch.
Tags: Brand upon the Brain!, Guy Maddin
'Fido': Zombie Fever
This black comedy subscribes to the adage that any genre can be improved with the addition of zombies, with a capital Z.
Tags: Andrew Currie, Fido
'Once': Predictable Story, Whiny Songs
Music video masquerades as a heart-on-sleeve narrative featuring a charismatic, if musically limited and redundant, Glen Hansard of the Irish rock band the Frames.
Tags: John Carney, Once
'Jindabyne': Interesting Acting, Limited Material
Overwrought thriller-as-social-drama, loosely based on Raymond Carver’s short story, "So Much Water So Close to Home," slides around a morally slippery narrative area of four fishermen discovering a corpse.
Tags: Jindabyne, Ray Lawrence
'Crazy Love': A Fascinating Documentary
If you don't know the tale of Burt and Linda Pugach, then you're out of the loop on one of the biggest running tabloid stories in New York history.
Tags: Crazy Love, Dan Klores
'The Boss of it All': Light-hearted for von Trier
Lars von Trier takes a break from his trademark approach to polemics to induce snide laughs with an office satire about an actor hired by an IT company CEO to pose as its president in order to sell off the company.
Tags: Lars von Trier, The Boss of it All
'Rocket Science': A Charming Narrative
Positively winning coming-of-age drama/comedy stacks the deck with newcomer Reece Daniel Thompson as Hal Hefner, a stuttering New Jersey High School student.
Tags: Jeffrey Blitz, rocket science
Two Fantasies, Oceans Apartnew
Ocean's Thirteen and Angel-A serve up dreamy urban pleasures -- just don't expect logical plots or serious thrills.
NOW Magazine |
Josh Harkness |
06-11-2007 |
Movies
'Fay Grim': Inarticulate and Grueling
Woe is he, or she, that goes in search of Hal Hartley, the mojo-handy director of Henry Fool.
Tags: Fay Grim, Hal Hartley
