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The Good Soldiernew
Novelist Anthony Swofford says he won't play politics with Jarhead.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
11-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pluck Offnew
That's not the sky falling, just Disney's Chicken Little. Disney Digital 3-D had better be good to make up for the lame and obvious gags.
East Bay Express |
Luke Y. Thompson |
11-07-2005 |
Reviews
Department of Truthnew
Even when it's shot through with apology, a June-November romance like Shopgirl is full of unsavory implications.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shopgirl, Anand Tucker
Dreary, With Occasional Outbursts of Humornew
Scuttling his reputation for liveliness, Gore Verbinksi proves that following a fictional TV weatherman around a secondary market can be as dull as the real thing.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
A Fable Gone Sci-Finew
Here is yet another movie that lays the groundwork for being one type of entertainment and abruptly becomes something else entirely.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
11-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chicken Little, Mark Dindal
The Boondocks Shows Potentialnew
The Boondocks will be more than a quiet blip on late-night cable.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Film Would be Better Named Sucky Cluckynew
Chicken Little hypocritically mocks movie cliches at the beginning, then wallows in sentiment like a pig in slop.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Film Riffs on Comedy Duo's Splitnew
In Atom Egoyan's mystery, dripping with Hollywood noir, rival manuscripts reveal blackmail and murder behind the collapse of comedy headliners clearly based on Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Atom Egoyan, Where the Truth Lies
Love Hurts in Heartbreaking Filmnew
The film suggests a marriage of Robert Altman's early work, with gallivanting but rich character studies, and the penetrating view of marriage and loneliness in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ira Sachs, Forty Shades of Blue
After Innocence
People convicted of murder or rape and then cleared by DNA evidence often remain incarcerated, as authorities desperately try to convince judges that they got the right guy, or even that blameless men should remain behind bars on procedural grounds.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Dying for Undying Fame
If the theme of Jarhead is killers wanting to kill, the theme of Paradise Now is killers wondering if they should kill.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Violence Is Golden
Sam Mendes' bleakly funny, stunningly realized Jarhead brings us a world in which violence, far from erupting, remains eternally, almost unnaturally, constrained.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Rainy-Day Man
In The Weather Man, director Gore Verbinski has achieved the impossible: making Bob Seger's Chevy-pushing "Like a Rock" poignant again (or, perhaps more accurately, for the first time).
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Scarred Lives
The directorial debut of playwright and screenwriter Craig Lucas, The Dying Gaul is a slick, Hollywood-style vehicle powered by anti-establishment anger.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Breaking Up and Down
The fourth and best film by second-generation Brooklyn boho Noah Baumbach, The Squid and the Whale is partially autobiographical, and it seems as uncensored and intimate as entries from someone's diary.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
