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OH Hum

Ohio pushes only a few of the right buttons.
Washington City Paper  |  Tricia Olszewski  |  08-04-2006  |  Reviews

Wonder Boy

After descending from full-on laughs to forced giggles, Ferrell and McKay successfully resuscitate the audience with never-fail outtakes that should leave you happier than a celebration dinner at Applebee's.
Washington City Paper  |  Tricia Olszewski  |  08-04-2006  |  Reviews

Droll-y Rollers

Little Miss Sunshine's script so deftly captures the emotion behind each setback that it's less like a sitcom than like a clan's real day-to-day life squashed into 101 minutes.
Washington City Paper  |  Tricia Olszewski  |  08-04-2006  |  Reviews

Hear and There

Stettner decided to "open up" the narrative, thus rendering an intriguingly elusive tale into something that's as predictable as a teen horror flick.
Washington City Paper  |  Mark Jenkins  |  08-04-2006  |  Reviews

Twin Tone

Rather than question glam rock's adolescent self-analysis, the filmmakers simply second it, yielding a film that's less analysis than sham artifact.
Washington City Paper  |  Mark Jenkins  |  08-04-2006  |  Reviews

Oliver's Twist

Surprise, surprise -- in World Trade Center, Oliver Stone shows that he can turn down the bombast.
Salt Lake City Weekly  |  Scott Renshaw  |  08-04-2006  |  Reviews

Talladega's Other Knightnew

Lovable loser John C. Reilly restarts his comic engine opposite Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights.
NOW Magazine  |  Glenn Sumi  |  08-04-2006  |  Profiles & Interviews

Avening Angelsnew

Two new movies underscore the temptation for chicks to kick in flicks.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  Curt Holman  |  08-03-2006  |  Reviews

A Million Little Questionsnew

Based on a nonfiction book by Armistead Maupin, The Night Listener is a tale of horrendous and perhaps fabricated personal travails.
Orlando Weekly  |  Steve Schneider  |  08-03-2006  |  Reviews

Slave to the Grindnew

Adult Swim veteran Brendon Smalls stakes his hopes on metal with a new project -- the bombastic music-biz parody with the odd title of Metalocalypse -- and it's everything Home Movies commercially wasn’t.
Orlando Weekly  |  Steve Schneider  |  08-03-2006  |  TV

The Cartoon Network Goes Metalnew

Heavy metal remains fertile ground for satire on all fronts, but what sets the Cartoon Network's new animated series Metalocalypse apart is the reverence that precedes the ridicule.
Boston Phoenix  |  Larissa Glasser  |  08-03-2006  |  TV

Thrilla in Manilanew

Cavite moves and zips and pulsates -- but to what end?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  Felicia Feaster  |  08-03-2006  |  Reviews

Revenge of the Nerdsnew

Three gamer geeks from Massachusetts made a vid-cast that was slagged mercilessly on the Web, and then MTV called -- now they're cooler than you are.
Boston Phoenix  |  Mike Miliard  |  08-03-2006  |  TV

A Neighborhood Affairnew

This directing duo explores a young woman's sweet 15.
New York Press  |  Jennifer Merin  |  08-03-2006  |  Profiles & Interviews

Listen Upnew

This is a creepy tale about a radioman gone awry.
New York Press  |  Justin W. Ravitz  |  08-03-2006  |  Reviews

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