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Vegetable Matters
Lumpy and tuberish, the clay-on-wire creations of animator Nick Park sag with the weight of years. Yet who'd have guessed that clay could feel so light?
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
10-07-2005 |
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America the Abominable
Anyone who wants to feel better about this country can go see one of this week's cinematic strikes at the red, white, and blue, Good Night, and Good Luck, or Dear Wendy. Both are so uncompelling that they barely add a scratch to the United States' already-shredded reputation.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
10-07-2005 |
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Cracking! An Interview With the Creator of 'Wallace and Gromit'
Delightfully detailed and lovingly crafted, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit represents five years of work by Nick Park and the Aardman animators.
Artvoice |
M. Faust |
10-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Not of This World
Elizabethtown feels as if it's based on a life spent watching other Cameron Crowe movies.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-07-2005 |
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Tags: Cameron Crowe, Elizabethtown
School of Hard Rocknew
Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen take an anthropological look at the people who live and die for heaviosity in their new documentary.
Montreal Mirror |
Sarah Rowland |
10-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Revival of the Georgia Film Industrynew
Georgia's once popular native filmmaking business has undergone dramatic accelerations and reversals worthy of any car chase scene. A new state law and the work of filmmakers like Ray McKinnon could signal a creative upswing.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
10-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ray McKinnon, Randy & the Mob
Man and His Best Friend, Plus One Rabbitnew
This new animated comedy is a brilliantly conceived and executed bit of Brit wit, perfect for both kids and their parents and anyone even remotely interested in laughing themselves silly.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
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Kitchen Storiesnew
This frequently offensive and doggedly disgusting film about working in the restaurant industry is technically inept and wholly crude.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Rob McKittrick, Waiting ...
Bet Your Lifenew
Pacino again plays another Mephistophelean type who mentors McConaughey's ex-jock in the intricacies of his tout service, offering tips to betters on the Vegas line, but the film is about as fresh as a day-old betting slip.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: D.J. Caruso, Two for the Money
The Substance of Lifenew
This adaptation of Haruki Murakami's eponymous short story is a delicate little curio, lighter than air and gravely philosophical at once.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Jun Ichikawa, Tony Takitani
A Tough Habit to Breaknew
The plot realistically mimics a teenager's adriftness and tendency toward hairpin-turn mood shifts as it bounds from the wonderfully affecting to the decidedly idiosyncratic to the occasionally absurd.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mike Mills, Thumbsucker
Faulty Mathnew
As with many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness loses something in its translation to celluloid.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Madden, Proof
Let's Twist Againnew
Some may doubt the need to once more bring Dickens's tale to the screen, but Polanski's deft adaptation proves that there's still life in that well-worn story of a boy who beats the odds.
Austin Chronicle |
Steve Davis |
10-06-2005 |
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Tags: Oliver Twist, Roman Polanski
In a Family Waynew
Even if these Shoes are not perfectly stitched, the fit is nevertheless comfortable and the look is polished.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
10-06-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Curtis Hanson, In Her Shoes
Kicking It Aroundnew
The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
10-06-2005 |
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