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Paradise Nownew
Feverish fans of The New World turn Terrence Malick's box office bust into a cult film.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
03-08-2006 |
Movies
Never Forget Younew
The Americanization of the telenovela is happening in Miami -- and in Spanish.
Miami New Times |
Emily Witt |
03-07-2006 |
TV
Tags: univision
Man of the Peoplenew
With help from director Michel Gondry, Dave Chappelle keeps it real.
San Diego CityBeat |
Angela Carone |
03-06-2006 |
Reviews
Get Down with Davenew
Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
03-06-2006 |
Reviews
Davey From the Block
Though the festivities can get distractingly self-congratulatory on screen, it's hard to begrudge Chappelle the success of what he calls the greatest day of his career.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Lady of the Housecoat
Madea may be a big momma, but she's no Big Momma.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Beach Slap
Affable, synthetic and 100 percent girly, this beach-blanket renovation of The Little Mermaid boasts a virtually unknown cast and a plot so flimsy that merely to recount it is to kill it.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Aquamarine, Elizabeth Allen
Swag Hagsnew
Movie after movie, Hollywood tries to buy off critics with tchotchkes.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Where Is the Love?new
Brokeback Mountain perfectly captures our ambivalence about marriage -- gay and straight.
Boston Phoenix |
Michael Bronski |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Pulling Up Lame
Let's just say that Paul Walker is the best thing about Running Scared -- it's that bad.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer
Donner Paltry
If keeping the action fast and unrelenting makes for an exciting ride, well, it also makes for a rather unbelievable one.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Donner, 16 Blocks
Butt Seriously
Largely redundant, the only thing Lovett really adds to the post-Stonewall mythography is to remind us how attractive men's bodies actually were in the 70s, before the plague.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gay Sex in the 70s, Joseph Lovett
Courting Rituals
No one in front of or behind the camera in this film seems able to imagine a better outcome for a young black man from the projects than realizing those dreams of a Bentley and a Rolex and a shoe with his own name on it.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
Reviews
The Two Faces of Jonnew
Which Jon Stewart will host the Oscars -- the savage satirist or the chickenshit phony?
Tags: The Oscars
Critics' Choice?new
A new Duke University study of film reviews takes more than a standard deviation from reality.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
03-03-2006 |
Movies
