AltWeeklies Wire
A Brilliant Film That Sucksnew
There's no getting around the fact that The Intruder is an elliptical, and perhaps an even literally meaningless film.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Claire Denis, The Intruder
The First Realistic Reality Filmnew
A truly amazing reality film (in every sense of the word), Bubble has produced a new approach: method acting taken to a different extreme -- call it "reality acting."
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
More Disturbing than Davey and Goliathnew
Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is set in a post-apocalyptic future, and is a claymation rendering of the Manson Family murders -- no, seriously.
Dig Boston |
Chris Braiotta |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Shanghai Crimesnew
Ralph Fiennes doesn’t even phone in his role in this stilted 1930s period drama.
Baltimore City Paper |
Geoffrey Himes |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Glorified Roadnew
Former Texas Western University basketball player Nevil Shed says Bruckheimer's film is more truth than fiction.
San Antonio Current |
Brian Villalobos |
01-25-2006 |
Movies
Tags: Glory Road
Too Real to Feel Goodnew
Soderbergh's HD experiment is magic-free.
San Antonio Current |
Cole Haddon |
01-25-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, Bubble
Screen Testnew
With his Sundance-bound First Date, Kansas City's Gary Huggins discovers a new leading man.
Tags: First Date, Gary Huggins
On 'the Loss to My Own Heart'new
As Roe v. Wade turns 33, Speak Out: I Had an Abortion wrestles with the experience of abortion.
The Village Voice |
Courtney E. Martin |
01-23-2006 |
Movies
Tarnished Ivorynew
White Countess writes an inglorious final chapter for a dynamic filmmaking duo.
Dallas Observer |
Bill Gallo |
01-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, White Countess
Lights, Camera, Play!new
They're not exactly Pixar, but a crew of Texas teens find fame -- not fortune -- making machinima movies on the Xbox.
Dallas Observer |
Glenna Whitley |
01-23-2006 |
Movies
Suspended Sentencenew
After Innocence probes life after a wrongful conviction.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
01-23-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: After Innocence, Jessica Sanders
Who's Laughing?new
Albert Brooks looks for comedy and comes up empty.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
01-23-2006 |
Reviews
Grit and Polish
Removed from Merchant Ivory's upholstered interiors, the not-quite-romance seems nearly as grand as the world's conflicts.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
01-20-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: James Ivory, The White Countess
Jersey Barriers
This gritty and heartbreaking film interweaves the stories of three teenage girls living in the most crime-ridden parts of Jersey City.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
01-20-2006 |
Reviews
Martyrs and Miracles
This film is competent, but for any except the church-basement crowd, the theme will probably be a deal-breaker.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
01-20-2006 |
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