AltWeeklies Wire
Too Importantnew
World Trade Center deserved a more reliable director than Oliver Stone.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
08-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, World Trade Center
The Art of Subtletynew
Little Miss Sunshine may just save America's reputation.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
08-16-2006 |
Reviews
Spike Lee's Reality TVnew
When the Levees Broke brings Katrina's devastation into clear and timely focus.
The Village Voice |
Larry Blumenfeld |
08-16-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Grandly Guignol
The film has cheesy dialogue and plot holes a mile wide, but also contains tight pacing, plenty of expertly timed scares, and the generous helping of unapologetic gore that's been missing from the glut of "horror" movies currently plaguing American screens.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
08-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Marshall, The Descent
Udder Disappointment
There are a few funny bits here and there, but any movie in which a singing cow introduces kids to Tom Petty can't be all bad.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-14-2006 |
Reviews
A Role in the Hay
Neither forcefully fruity nor sitcom-y broad, this story is pretty fabulous.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
08-14-2006 |
Reviews
Auteur Redemption
World Trade Center doesn't stint on devastation, but ultimately it depicts the towers' smoking remains as a place where souls are reclaimed -- and thus, by implication, where a director's shattered career can also be reborn.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
08-14-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, World Trade Center
One Day in Septembernew
Although heavily sentimentalized, Stone finds the common ground Americans can rally around for relief from the devastation: We are, in the final analysis, good people.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Stone, World Trade Center
Dance Lessonsnew
This snooty-dancer-meets-street-dancer musical romance is so painfully intent on teaching its characters life lessons every few minutes that it forgets to be trashy.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-13-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Anne Fletcher, Step Up
Remember North American Soccernew
The unexpected rise and meteoric fall of the North American Soccer League in the heady, silly mid-Seventies is chronicled for the first time in this charmingly chatty documentary.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-13-2006 |
Reviews
Heaven's Solid Sendersnew
Galan's reverential look at Grammy-winning "Texican" rockers Los Lonely Boys is a document of persistence, passion, and some of the finest rock 'n' roll since Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely exit.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-13-2006 |
Reviews
Family Pageantrynew
Like any indie comedy worth its weight in quirkiness, Little Miss Sunshine is packed with offbeat characters, all struggling to find meaning in life, but the film is so much fun, it's almost impossible not to enjoy the journey.
Austin Chronicle |
Toddy Burton |
08-13-2006 |
Reviews
World Beatnew
This trip through musical Istanbul is a little prettier than it is deep, but it provides a window into the variegated subcultures of a city one musician calls "a bridge crossed by 72 nations."
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-13-2006 |
Reviews
Searching for Once Upon a Timenew
This is why Monument Valley –- again part of the Netflix/Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer –- is such a magnetic place for me.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-13-2006 |
Movies
Alternative Education
Steve Pink’s directorial debut is a slight but punchy comedy of college-aged misfits that starts out strong before slipping down a greasy narrative slope into a dull third act that denies most of the laughs that preceded.
Tags: Accepted, Steve Pink
