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Truth in Doodlingnew
Don Hertzfeldt's seemingly primitive animation addresses our most primal concerns.
Chicago Reader |
J.R. Jones |
02-12-2007 |
Reviews
Constant Crisesnew
Much ado about everything, all the time, on the ABC dramas What About Brian and Brothers & Sisters. Plus: the German epic Heimat on DVD.
Chicago Reader |
Lee Sandlin |
02-12-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Culture Schlocknew
Jude Law should stick to playing soulless philanderers.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sean Burns |
02-12-2007 |
Reviews
Outside, Over Therenew
Astonishing dark visions from director Guillermo del Toro.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
The Story Is Only Skin-Deepnew
The three personas Eddie Murphy adopts in this film literally fill the screen, but the script doesn't serve his multidimensional talents.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Robbins, Norbit
The Heart is a Lonely Hunternew
Judi Dench writes herself into a corner.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Notes on a Scandal, Richard Eyre
A Recipe for Indigestionnew
Jesus Christ, the original sin eater, has his hands full with a bunch of superstitious Appalachian immigrants from Wales in the 1850s.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Noshing on Nazisnew
Who would have thought mass murder and cannibalism could be so dull?
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Hannibal Rising, Peter Webber
Five Degrees of Separationnew
The filmmaker and an all-star cast create this somber murder mystery that has little mystery but is filled with a deep foreboding about the anguish that dominates some women's lives.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-09-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Karen Moncrieff, The Dead Girl
Murder in the Cathedralnew
Becket is ripe with plumy roles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Becket, Peter Glenville
Boohoo for Bobosnew
Breaking and Entering paints a compromised crime scene.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-08-2007 |
Reviews
Wages of Sinnew
Lynch returns to the dark side with Inland Empire.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-08-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: David Lynch, Inland Empire
The Kennedy Act of 2007new
With Abu Ghraib, RFK's daughter campaigns for American accountability in war.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Rob Nelson |
02-08-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Rory Kennedy
Suspicious Mindsnew
It was all sound and fury, signifying nothing, which is also a good description of the political and media circus that has surrounded Hounddog since midway through shooting in the summer of 2006 in eastern North Carolina.
Lion in Winternew
Venus works in large part because O'Toole's mere presence helps you relate to Maurice's history and battles with old age -- it's not just a random old man getting a prostate exam, it's Lawrence of Arabia being jellyfingered.
