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Summer Day Dreaming
The director offers a thoughtful, impressionistic take on a salacious topic: one heated summer between two teenage girls in Yorkshire.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Freedom Filmnew
Though it doesn't have explosions or a dude dressed like a bat, Kings and Queen wins with good writing.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Arnaud Desplechin, Kings and Queen
Undead and Loving It
The father of the zombie movie returns to the genre he created to teach these whippersnappers a thing or two about gore and horror.
Columbus Alive |
Melissa Starker |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Hex Crimes
Not content to make another terrible romantic comedy or another terrible based-on-TV-show movie, the Ephrons create the ro-meta-ntic comedy; disaster ensues.
Columbus Alive |
J. Caleb Mozzocco |
06-23-2005 |
Reviews
Real Life Drama
A new movie about the femicides in Juarez, Mexico, has prompted questions from activists.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Nadra Kareem |
06-22-2005 |
Movies
This One Should Be Burned at the Stakenew
A film reviewer is possessed by a force of sheer evil: Will Ferrell in Bewitched.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
06-22-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched
Caped Comebacknew
Holy box office! Batman Begins is one of the year's best!
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
Bothered and Bewildered
Why bury Will Ferrell’s comic brilliance just so the movie can be called Bewitched?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
06-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Nora Ephron, Bewitched
Pure Road Tripnew
Monte Hellman's hard-to-find Two-Lane Blacktop defines the American road movie. If you're serious about film, it's one movie not to miss.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Monte Hellman, Two-Lane Blacktop
Old Show's Nature Seems Rickety Vehicle for Featurenew
It's just like the 1950s series, only with an African-American cast, a modern setting and lame jokes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Another Road Home Is a Journey Both Personal and Politicalnew
Another Road Home has echoes of the sharp divide between black and white experience in the United States, and how one race can be oblivious to discrimination, and the other, daily, painfully aware of it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Another Road Home, Danae Elon
Movie Magic Keeps Howl's Castle Movingnew
What sticks with you are the film's moments of delicate epiphanies, like seeing a fire demon cook bacon and eggs, or watching a hopping scarecrow hang clothes to dry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Duff Enufnew
Less a feature film than 90 minutes of tweenage feminine wish fulfillment, The Perfect Man is like Teen People come to life.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mark Rosman, The Perfect Man
Bale Bats It Out of the Park … Er, Cavenew
Batman Begins … and it's about time. The movie is great fun, and also a terrific relief.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Christopher Nolan, Batman Begins
A, B, C, Dancenew
The filmmakers would have us embrace this work as though it were the Spellbound of grade-school dance documentaries, but the film quickly loses its footing.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-16-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Mad Hot Ballroom, Marilyn Agrelo
