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Sometimes a Fantasy
Terry Gilliam comfortably treads familiar surreal ground in The Brothers Grimm.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Grimm
The Life Lethargicnew
As intriguing as Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Broken Flowers, might be, it nevertheless feels like something we've all seen too many times before.
Tags: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch
State of Fearnew
Kate Hudson and a supporting cast of stereotypes sleepwalk through The Skeleton Key as British director Iain Softley continues the time-honored tradition of turning Louisiana into a sticky, icky gumbo of cliches.
Tags: Iain Softley, The Skeleton Key
Swamp Thingnew
Though probably not intended, The Skeleton Key is one of 2005's funniest films, bested only by the first two-thirds of Wedding Crashers, all of The Aristocrats, and that part in Stealth where the airplane starts sassing Josh Lucas.
Phoenix New Times |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
Reviews
Six Feet, Over
How will HBO’s Six Feet Under end? Let us count the ways.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
08-15-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Southern Discomfortnew
A transplanted son revisits his Carolina roots in the ambitious drama Junebug.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
08-15-2005 |
Reviews
Working Bluenew
The Aristocrats goes inside the dirtiest joke ever told and reveals a nugget of unadulterated joy.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
08-15-2005 |
Reviews
Plane and Simple
Wes Craven's Red Eye offers a lesson in making a taut, efficient thriller.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Wes Craven, Red Eye
Hoodoo You Think You're Fooling?new
A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Iain Softley, The Skeleton Key
Scenes From a Former Marriagenew
Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ingmar Bergman, Saraband
When the Music's Overnew
Gus Van Sant concocts an abstruse film "loosely inspired" by the end of Kurt Cobain’s life.
Austin Chronicle |
Kimberley Jones |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Last Days
War's a Snoozenew
The single dullest war film of the past decade comes from the once promising director John Dahl.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Dahl, The Great Raid
It Ain't Heavy … It's Four Brothersnew
A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Four Brothers, John Singleton
Wild Seeds and the Flowers of Youthnew
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
08-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Broken Flowers, Jim Jarmusch
Film Causes Gag Reflex to Kick Innew
The Aristocrats takes a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of entertainment, but it isn't always the laugh riot you might expect. The filmmakers rely on attention-deficit editing and overlapping interviews until some jokesters' verbal rhythms are trashed.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
08-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Provenza, The Aristocrats
