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Bad Girls Are Even Betternew
Attention-deficit filmmaking reaches a new pinnacle in Tony Scott's hyperstylized portrait of a bounty hunter as an iconic bad girl.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
Stuck Inside of Nowherenew
Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy doesn't make the attraction between the characters played by Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom believable and then goes off in dozens more unprofitable directions.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Taking Issue
North Country’s stylish filmmaking can’t overcome emphasis on a societal ill.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Niki Caro, North Country
Light and Darknew
An amusing road trip through Ukraine leads to epiphanies of history and memory in actor Liev Schreiber's only partially illuminating adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's novel.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Mass Appealnew
An R&B singer rediscovers his roots in this faith-based drama that successfully captures the ecstatic experience of gospel performance despite having no other narrative momentum.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob Hardy, The Gospel
Falluja Fields Forevernew
In this amazingly candid documentary, soldiers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division talk about their lives and their mission in Fallujah, Iraq, in early 2004, just weeks before the full strength of the Sunni insurgency is unleashed.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Seek and Ye Shall Findnew
Kirk Davis’ slick film, adapted from the stories of Christopher Cook, plunges into Texas' small-town religious mores and comes up with some insightful revelations in this character-driven pastiche.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kirk Davis, Screen Door Jesus
The New American Nightmarenew
This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Joseph Castelo, The War Within
Festival Fatiguenew
L.A.’s avalanche of film fests has at least one critic peering into the future darkly -- and seriously considering an appointment with a seppuku blade.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
10-14-2005 |
Movies
Who Hates Their MTV?new
The rebel network sold its soul for bimbos, princesses and bucks.
L.A. Weekly |
Nikki Finke |
10-14-2005 |
TV
9021Woah!
Self-consciously cool hyphenated heist hybrid Domino is utterly and consistently ridiculous, just one of the main reasons for the film's relentless awesome-ness.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
From Kiev, With Lovenew
Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz jumps from stage diving to scene stealing in Everything is Illuminated.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Playing With Firenew
The Big Buy spent two years tracking Ronnie Earle as he built his case against Tom DeLay.
San Antonio Current |
Elaine Wolff |
10-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Big Buy
A Yuppie Couple's Misplaced Valuesnew
The love story, corporate spoof and family/funeral material never hang together in this film, and instead Cameron Crowe falls back on long close-ups of pretty actors looking at the camera.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
Film Dumbs Down Bounty Hunter's Lifenew
In the right hands, heists make compelling films, and Domino Harvey seems a ripe subject for a psychological study. But director Tony Scott seems not just disinterested, but actively opposed to narrative clarity or exploring human nature.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tony Scott, Domino
