AltWeeklies Wire
Feeling Hustled
Resist the Rocky redemption references -- strong performances aside, Hustle & Flow is a lazy and somewhat ignorant empty gesture.
Columbus Alive |
Nikki Davis |
07-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Tortured Horror
Rob Zombie's lovingly-made latest will leave genre fans squirming in their seats by the finale, but maybe not for the right reasons.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
07-25-2005 |
Reviews
More Bad News
Richard Linklater and the Bad Santa boys' remake is amusing, but also completely superfluous.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
07-25-2005 |
Reviews
Sci-fi Twist on Action Film Flops
Michael Bay's The Island rapidly devolves into a brainless mess of chases and badly choreographed action movie clichés, all told in Bay’s signature choppy, brutal, throbbing style.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
07-25-2005 |
Reviews
The New King of Memphisnew
Young directors staring down their first commercial release don't often get a celebrity rollout -- but director Craig Brewer is an exception.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Davis and Chris Herrington |
07-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Bad News Is Just Thatnew
You will still recognize a little of what remains onscreen, but the plastic surgeons have botched the job, rendering Bad News Bears hideously deformed.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-25-2005 |
Reviews
Steel Wheelsnew
Murderball, a documentary about quad rugby players, absolutely kills.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
07-25-2005 |
Reviews
Hustled
All the grit but none of the realism of John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood is found in Brewer's split-personality portrait of the Memphis hood.
Missoula Independent |
Jason Wiener |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Game Onnew
For sure, this is a movie about jocks, with all their ardor and devotion to the sport on full display, but the affecting Murderball also goes where no documentary about the physically impaired has gone before.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
No Signs of Lifenew
If you like Maxim, you'll love The Island -- it's glossy, expensive, full of slick ads and beautiful people reduced to posable action figures.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Bay, The Island
Rocky Meets the Mean Streets of Memphisnew
In a true starmaking turn, Terrence Howard commands the screen as a down-on-his-luck pimp and aspiring rapper.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
Hell-Boundnew
Rob Zombie's Super-16 death trip is the year's most viciously entertaining psycho road-movie, a heartfelt homage to '70s-era cinematic sleaze.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Rob Zombie, The Devil's Rejects
Base Hitnew
Kids and profanity will always be funny together, but this genial remake of the Walter Matthau hit has lost some of the edge.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Richard Linklater, Bad News Bears
Watch Whitney and Bobby Spar, Eat and Kiss in New Reality Shownew
Being Bobby Brown is kind of like being John Doe, except Bobby has gold records, adoring fans and money to help him cope with ... being Bobby Brown.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Sonia Clark |
07-22-2005 |
TV
Tags: Watcher
Film's Eerie Ideas Go Out With a Bangnew
Michael Bay, director of Hollywood's most destruction-crazed movies, makes an unlikely member of the Culture of Life. But his sci-fi thriller offers a metaphorical argument against cloning, stem cell and frozen embryo research.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Michael Bay, The Island
