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Sprawling Film Navigates Two Livesnew
The director seems determined to squeeze every life lesson, every artistic idea he's ever had into his rich, sprawling melodrama, which lasts two-and-a-half hours but doesn't dawdle for a second.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Arnaud Desplechin, Kings and Queen
Thriller Genre Conventions Mar Film's Deeper Meaningnew
Stay suggests the director's desire to interweave the moral and psychological complexities of an art film with some of the flash of an old-fashioned bone-chiller.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Marc Forster, Stay
Outside-the-Box Biopic Goes Deepnew
This director's second film is a morally complex and incisive look at not only the literary significance of In Cold Blood, but a penetrating observation of the devil's pact made between writers and their subjects.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Liplocks and Gunshots in La La Landnew
Lethal Weapon series writer Shane Black presents us with an extra humorous flick about tough guys becoming buddies. Bonus: One of them is gay.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
10-19-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shane Black
Have Gun, Will Unravelnew
The story developed by cinema auteur Lars von Trier makes no sense and depends upon people acting based on some crazed Dane's mental stereotype of Americans.
Dallas Observer |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-19-2005 |
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Truth Syrupnew
The directorial debut of screenwriter Julian Fellowes, who won an Oscar for his work on the screenplay for Gosford Park, is about how lies beget lies and how a seemingly perfect life can unravel in the blink of an eye.
Dallas Observer |
Jean Oppenheimer |
10-19-2005 |
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The Little Animation Company That COULDnew
After struggling uphill in the difficult yet potentially profitable world of computer animation films, Wild Brain is on the cusp of success.
SF Weekly |
Ryan Blitstein |
10-18-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Past Primenew
This movie should have been about something more than an older woman digging on a younger man, much to the disapproval of the younger man's mom.
Miami New Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
10-18-2005 |
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Green Street Hooligans
It's understandable that Elijah Wood should want to atone for being a hobbit.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
10-14-2005 |
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The War Within
American cinema has enjoyed a long love affair with the antihero, but the protagonist of The War Within may just take the cake.
Washington City Paper |
Jason Powell |
10-14-2005 |
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The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
The horrific death of 14-year-old Emmett Till is not an untold story -- at least not as presented by Keith A. Beauchamp's vivid documentary.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-14-2005 |
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The Singing Defective
This is Hollywood's sorta-true version of Domino Harvey's story of a model turned bounty-hunter.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-14-2005 |
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Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
The Singing Defective
In this film, the ideal '50s housewife goes beyond rearing her children and keeping a spotless home. She instantly defuses her spouse's alcoholic rages, with a quip, a bright smile, or, when things got especially tense, maybe a flung bowl of Jell-O.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
10-14-2005 |
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Solitary Refinement
Amid a glut of onscreen romances that contain between 90 and 99 percent schtick, Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown mercifully varies the boy-meets-girl formula. Yet Crowe's latest homage to Crowe is overstuffed and blunt.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-14-2005 |
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Eat Your Veggiesnew
Wallace & Grommit's feature-length debut is sure to please adults and kiddies.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
10-14-2005 |
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