AltWeeklies Wire
South Wins!new
By projecting the horrific implications of the Confederacy across a century-and-a-half of American history, C.S.A. might convince contemporary sons of the South to stop whistling "Dixie."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Witless Tediumnew
"From two of the six writers of Scary Movie 3," promise the ads, raising the possibility that we'll one day be sold a film "from two million of the six million monkeys who sat at typewriters and banged out Date Movie."
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Aaron Seltzer, Date Movie
A Satisfying Morality Playnew
Burials casts Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas ranch hand who loses his saintly Mexican buddy to the errant trigger finger of a brutal border guard.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Running Scarednew
Kramer's latest may disappoint folks who associate him solely with The Cooler, forgetting that he also happens to be the guy who wrote Mindhunters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer
Check-out Timenew
Simple-minded but sweet, this is an old-age tribute that doesn't press as hard on your gag reflex as The World's Fastest Indian.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Diary of a Mad Frenchwomannew
This film follows a story arc that, depending on one's perspective, is either a quaint relic of an alien culture or flat-out insane.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Frederic Fonteyne, Gilles' Wife
The Whole World is Watchingnew
Cache has every ingredient for art-house insufferability -- it's about upper-class Parisians, for starters.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Haneke, Caché
Frozen Stiffnew
The pooches out-act the humans in Eight Below.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eight Below, Frank Marshall
Those Wacky Germans!new
Go for Zucker is a contrived farce, but it's still better than most sitcoms.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dani Levy, Go for Zucker
Dirty Deedsnew
Bad cops and brass-knuckle politics play out in two new tales of urban dystopia, Dirty and Street Fight.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Bondage and Diminutionnew
Kevin Willmott's brilliant new film looks at an alternate racial history.
New York Press |
Matt Zoller Seitz |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Too Dumb to Chargenew
Lionel Baier offers a slightly uncomfortable glimpse into a young gigolo's irredeemably twisted logic.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
02-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Garcon Stupide, Lionel Baier
Redneck Racists Take Overnew
This faux documentary about what might have happened if the South had won the Civil War falls somewhere between Ken Burns on Haterade and a joke that goes on far too long.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
02-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tiger Beatnew
After the Sundance short-shrift, American independent films get their due in Rotterdam.
The Village Voice |
Dennis Lim |
02-22-2006 |
Movies
Second Naturenew
A haunting documentary revisits age-old questions of an essential self.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
02-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Rupert Murray, Unknown White Male
