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Expressionless Crusadenew
Orlando Bloom's wooden performance botches an otherwise well-done Kingdom of Heaven.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven
Everything Cinematic Is Illuminatednew
Tucson Weekly reviewers look askew at the coming summer movie season.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna and Zachary Woodruff |
05-12-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films
Mindhunters Almost Made Obsolete by Changing Timesnew
Despite its slick veneer, Mindhunters never realizes that its expiration date passed long before audiences even got a look at it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Renny Harlin, Mindhunters
Pete Tong Rarely Goes Wrongnew
More of an exercise in sensory stimulation than a story with deep insights, It's All Gone Pete Tong offers a surprisingly fresh way to think about disabilities. The dance milieu mostly just provides the backbeat.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Lady Wrestlers Recall Brawlsnew
Ruth Leitman's illuminating, flinty and sometimes downright depressing documentary follows a subculture of battling dames.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Jane Fonda Sparkles in Film That Betrays Real Womennew
The film underscores two regressive ideas: first, that modern career women are neurotic, unhappy, competitive, underfed bitches; second, that aspiring trophy wives are the more content, well-adjusted ones.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Luketic, Monster-in-Law
Rather Fun Housenew
House of Wax, the debut feature from Spanish-born music video director Jaume Collet-Serra, is not a light-weight, fluffy teen horror flick like most "scary" films of late have been.
Jackson Free Press |
Paul Dearing |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: House of Wax, Jaume Collet-Serra
Myth Over Matter: How George Lucas Reached for the Starsnew
"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" -- from Star Wars’s opening moment, George Lucas made it clear he wasn’t interested in making ordinary movies. No Casablanca for him; no Citizen Kane or The Searchers or L’avventura or Persona.
Boston Phoenix |
Jeffrey Gantz |
05-12-2005 |
Movies
Another Brick in the Wallnew
If the dismally morose Daybreak is any indication, the flavor of Swedish misery is remarkably similar to the kind we do here in America -- only colder and with less natural light.
Club Lifenew
A dreamy mood movie, 3-Iron is at times deliciously sensual, creepily somnolent, whimsically spiritual, and disturbingly violent. But it is never quite coherent.
Monster-in-Law Causes Critic to Search His Degenerate Soulnew
In this light sitcom-style flick, J Lo rolls up her chinchilla-trimmed sleeves to grapple with Hanoi Jane, while Wanda Sykes dislocates her vagina.
Dig Boston |
David Wildman |
05-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Robert Luketic, Monster-in-Law
Excess Hollywood: A Preview of Summer Filmsnew
The 130-something films lined up for this summer include ones starring comic-book heroes (Batman, the Fantastic Four) and big-screen redos (The Honeymooners, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and War of the Worlds).
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Robert Wilonsky, Luke Y. Thompson and Bill Gallo |
05-11-2005 |
Movies
Tags: Various Directors, Various Films
We're No Angelsnew
Much of Crash, an L.A.-stories portmanteau about the suffocating embrace of racism, is hard to watch, harder still to listen to. It reminds us there's bad to be found in good people, and evil lurking even in the righteous.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-10-2005 |
Reviews
Bad Profile
There's a reason Mindhunters sat on a studio shelf for three years.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Renny Harlin, Mindhunters
Afraid of the Darth
Revenge of the Sith sucks less than Episodes I and II, but is that enough?
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
05-09-2005 |
Reviews
