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A Conspiracy in the White Housenew
This serviceable action thriller disintegrates into an implausible mess that's barely salvaged by the presence of old pros like Michael Douglas and Kim Basinger.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Clark Johnson, The Sentinel
Home Friednew
Steve Buscemi directs this story about a lovable loser who moves back in with his off-kilter family in Indiana.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Buscemi, Lonesome Jim
Suck on Thisnew
Metaphorically speaking, Little Red Riding Hood eats Humbert Humbert in this story of an online predator and his jailbait, gamine prey.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: David Slade, Hard Candy
It Takes a Villagenew
This story about a girl from the ghetto who wins the national spelling bee has lofty if often unfulfilled goals, but is a rewarding tale nevertheless.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Akeelah and the Bee, Doug Atchison
Friend of a Friend of the Devil
"In all seriousness, one of the great archeological finds in our lifetime is the archive of Daniel Johnston."
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-28-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Straw Man
Feuerzeig's sober and intelligent documentary doesn't exploit the schizophrenic subject.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
String Cheese
This comedy of manners has no keen fix on manners and no hunger for true human comedy.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Cabin Pressure
Greengrass' account of the fourth plane to be hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, is the purest of action flicks.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
In the Mode for Love
Three Times depicts a Taiwan that has moved from enslavement to freedom yet has misplaced something of its culture and sense of community.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Three Times
Kibbles 'n' Tits
It's unlikely that there's another orgy movie out there that's more boring or irritating.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Catherine Cahn, Charlie's Party
Simon Says ... Nothing
Despite the currency of its topics, American Dreamz doesn't make you think, and it won't make you feel any smarter than watching American Idol does.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: American Dreamz, Paul Weitz
Trailer Trashnew
Robin Williams faces flying feces in the abominably bad RV.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Barry Sonnenfeld, RV
Triple Ploynew
Three Times unites his themes of the recalled past and the scattered present, and it may be Hsiao-Hsien's most profound, if enigmatic, film to date.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
04-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Three Times
Sooner or Later?new
United 93 director Paul Greengrass discusses scheduling the movie's release.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
04-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
United We Fallnew
United 93 treads a fine line between catharsis and exploitation, between the manipulation of an agenda and the illusion of objectivity.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
04-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Greengrass, united 93
