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Primal Furnew
Disney parades its pooches.
Phoenix New Times |
Bill Gallo |
02-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eight Below, Frank Marshall
The Price Is Wrongnew
Freedomland turns a rich, complex book into a poor, simple movie.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
02-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
2 Slow 2 Unfurious
When writing the story of a dumb but sort of sweet boy who has a thing for anonymous sex, it's probably a bad idea to give the boy a job in a chocolate factory.
Washington City Paper |
Trey Graham |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Garcon Stupide, Lionel Baier
Death Cab for Cuties
Credit director James Wong for knowing what his audience has come to see -- unfortunately, that's all you can give him credit for.
Washington City Paper |
Matthew Borlik |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Final Destination 3, James Wong
The Young and the Restful
Demme does as well by Young as he did by Talking Heads (Stop Making Sense) and Robyn Hitchcock (Storefront Hitchcock), rendering the performances with elegance, intimacy, and a splendid lack of gimmickry.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
The Moore Things Stay the Same
Freedomland is a most amazing story of sorts, but in the end, its much and often absurd ado goes nowhere and amounts to nothing.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
Man's Best Co-Star
This film is quick-moving and riveting, but you may as well tune out when the movie starts cutting back and forth between the humans, safely back in America, and the dogs, left to fend for themselves in increasingly perilous conditions.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eight Below, Frank Marshall
What In Carnation?
By shaking the hornet's nest of American race relations, von Trier has guaranteed that at least some viewers will find Manderlay injurious.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
Fables of the Deconstruction
The point of the original novel is never to get to the point, which this movie respects as best it can.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-17-2006 |
Reviews
Berlin and Beyondnew
An icon of sex -- and the biggest Peter in San Francisco -- reemerges from the shadows.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
02-16-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jim Tushinski, That Man
Wait for the Fire Next Timenew
This Richard Price story about simmering racial tension that boils over during the course of a police investigation is scattershot and erratic.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
It's a Dog's Worldnew
We smell penguins, even though Eight Below's animals are really a pack of sled dogs in a dandy new man-and-dog movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Eight Below, Frank Marshall
Invitation to the Dancenew
This is a majestic movie about a once celebrated ballet company that changed the face of modern dance.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Bonfire of Inanitiesnew
Gotta hand it to Julianne Moore -- she's turned in a piece of overacting even the Oscars would be embarrassed to honor.
Orlando Weekly |
Steven Schneider |
02-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Freedomland, Joe Roth
Battles in Berlinnew
At the Berlin International Film Festival, George Clooney is treated like royalty, but the serious consideration is given to European and Asian directors and their bizarre films.
NOW Magazine |
Cameron Bailey |
02-16-2006 |
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