AltWeeklies Wire
Monster Dearestnew
The screen moms of 2006 look for redemption through desperate living, methadone, and visitation rights.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
12-27-2006 |
Movies
Higher Powersnew
Here are some cool new shows about losing, robbing and preaching.
New Haven Advocate |
Doron Monk Flake |
12-27-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Bombs Away!new
Our critic's list of great movies that other critics hated includes Cleopatra, Heaven's Gate, Ishtar and Gigli.
Once More Into the Bleaknew
If you think you've seen this before, you have, in versions ad nauseam.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ponsoldt, Off the Black
Golden Slumbernew
The story is meager and disjointed.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Draggin' Dragonnew
This skeletal rendering of Paolini's vivid book is ultimately the equivalent of Fantasy for Dummies.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eragon, Stefen Fangmeier
Mommie Deadestnew
Volver achieves a hollow perfection.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Pedro Almodóvar, Volver
Here's Hooking at Younew
A skillful but idle pastiche.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, The Good German
Good Will Peddlingnew
Sober and assured, yet the events are so cryptic that the movie should probably come with a study guide.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd
Paunchy 'n' Punchynew
On this Rocky he has built a church.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sylvester Stallone, Rocky Balboa
Battle of the Comeback Kidsnew
A human-interest story that gives the audience no humans to be interested in.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: McG, We Are Marshall
Chicks Up Frontnew
Shut Up and Sing is precisely balanced between the personal, the musical and the political.
Eugene Weekly |
Molly Templeton |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Matter Over Mindnew
Blood Diamond plays like Pearl Harbor set against the backdrop of an industry awash in blood.
Eugene Weekly |
Jason Blair |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick
We Are Familynew
Dreamgirls is an infectious experience of sequins and songs that lives up to the hype.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
All Along the Watchtowernew
Matt Damon abandons the cat-and-mouse theatrics of his Bourne identity to play the reserved fictional functionary whose life serves as the prism through which this film examines the early years of the CIA.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd
