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Forecast Calls for Clouds and Sunshinenew
In this heartfelt comic drama, a wonderfully controlled Nicolas Cage plays a man who, despite the appearance of success, is despondent over his superficiality.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-27-2005 |
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Tags: Gore Verbinski, The Weather Man
Novel Gazingnew
While Capote is a good film, it hasn’t closed the book on the subject, even though the performances are undeniably great.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-27-2005 |
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Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Crime, Punishment and Heartbreaknew
Julian Fellowes is two for two: The English actor's first big screenwriting credit, Gosford Park, netted him an Oscar, and with this directorial debut, he again demonstrates a mastery of British uppercrust dramas.
Austin Chronicle |
Raoul Hernandez |
10-27-2005 |
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Tags: Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies
Unmaskednew
Whereas the Zorro of yore was a cunning subversive with a libidinous guerrilla panache, this new take with a tyke added is more like Leave It to Zorro.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2005 |
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Three the Horror Waynew
This lush and horrific anthology film from three of the finest craftsmen working today -- Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, and Takashi Miike -- is an instantly memorable and squirm-inducing assemblage.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2005 |
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Saw Bucksnew
With nary a decent, connective character in sight, this nasty sequel quickly becomes little more than a strenuous battle for survival among the already damned.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-27-2005 |
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Tags: Darren Lynn Bousman, Saw II
The Legend of Zorro
The film falls flat in its seriously siesta-inducing pace.
Washington City Paper |
Mario Correa |
10-27-2005 |
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Fast-Forwarding Through Life
Writer-director Ben Younger seems to think that merely showing Rafi (Uma Thurman) and David (Bryan Greenberg) tonguing each other after each sparkless date is enough to make the audience believe in their romance.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-27-2005 |
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Lost in Interpretation
Shopgirl, based on the novella by Steve Martin, will inevitably be viewed as Martin's Lost in Translation. But Martin, it turns out, is no Bill Murray.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-27-2005 |
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Evocation of Madness
An immaculately art-directed plunge into bewilderment, Stay begins with a disorienting car crash that recalls the opening of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blue.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2005 |
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Unreal World
This film about a journalist's investigation of two former song-and-joke partners would have been more convincing with actors who played both sides of their characters.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-27-2005 |
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Gentleman's Seasnew
A lot of us have long thought that Jeff Daniels was an innocuous onscreen presence, and now it's time to take it all back.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
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Spill the Weinsteinnew
My Big Fat Independent Movie is a pleasant surprise, if only because a handful of seemingly credible reports had indicated the film was the Antichrist.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
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Tru Colorsnew
With the concepts of artistic representation and exploitation becoming hopelessly blurred, the need for Capote couldn't be more compelling.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Kidnappednew
This is the story of seven strangers picked to live in a house … but only for a few hours, thanks to inhaled poison that's rotting their bodies from the inside.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Saw II, Darren Lynn Bausman
