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Old Schoolin'
Toss perfect actors an imperfect script, and you're going to get an audience mourning what might've been.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
09-29-2006 |
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Hurt 'til It Laughs
Even those who are partial to Dorothy Parker-type witticisms may find it astonishing how funny a lineup of guys getting unexpectedly punched in the face can be.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-29-2006 |
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Tags: Jeff Tremaine, Jackass Number Two
Won't Have Jet Li to Kick Around
Fearless resembles the '70s and '80s Shaw Brothers Studios films.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
09-29-2006 |
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Happy Hunting
If the film's various parts are more than gently used, the chassis still hums comfortably.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
09-29-2006 |
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That Ealing Feeling
Everything harmonizes in this cozily retro fable, which could have been produced by Ealing Studios, Britain's postwar comedy factory -- take that as either a commendation or a warning.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
09-29-2006 |
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Tags: Keeping Mum, Niall Johnson
Thus Spake Franken
Feels like a clip show of Weekend Updates, only with more consistent humor.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-29-2006 |
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Baiting in Vain
Clearly, no members of the faith who participate here are concerned with the sin of pride.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
09-29-2006 |
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Instant Karma Hindsight is 20-20
A more amusing, and probably truer, version of the story would show Nixon battling to deport a fickle rocker who'd already forgotten that he'd ever written a dumb ditty for John Sinclair.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
09-29-2006 |
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The Ice Storm
This film is as concerned with escape as it is with imprisonment.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
09-29-2006 |
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Tags: Gabrielle, Patrice Chereau
Perchance to Dreamnew
While you're waiting for the next Charlie Kaufman movie, here's The Science of Sleep.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jonathan Kiefer |
09-29-2006 |
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Underground Boston Undercover
Scorsese scores a stunner with The Departed.
Tags: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Nixon's Beatlemanianew
This documentary about Lennon's political activism and time spent in New York basks in the legend's presence but offers little new on the subject.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
09-28-2006 |
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Failure to Laughnew
Although it stars Billy Bob Thornton and Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder and is jam-packed with multi-talented comedians and stars, School for Scoundrels is just not funny.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
09-28-2006 |
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Hunting for Imaginationnew
The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor, but short on real storytelling, emotion, or characters.
Austin Chronicle |
Josh Rosenblatt |
09-28-2006 |
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Fancy Footworknew
Jet Li's final martial-arts epic is fittingly peripatetic, finding the Hong Kong superstar ricocheting across the screen from action set-piece to emotional overload and back again.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-28-2006 |
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Tags: Ronny Yu, Jet Li's Fearless
