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Film Lights Fire Under Racial Melting Potnew
Crash ambitiously takes on a huge theme from more angles than one film can really encompass. Nevertheless, it's filled with taut, engrossing sequences, and it honestly shows how ordinary people can rise or fall when given a chance for redemption.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
05-05-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Crash, Paul Haggis
Director Tackles Teen Pregnancy in New Filmnew
Director Todd Solondz looks and acts pretty much like you'd expect the architect of some of the ickiest, misanthropic films on the indie scene to look and act.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
05-05-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz
Oh, Babynew
The mommy track is mighty twisted in Todd Solondz's Palindromes.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
05-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Palindromes, Todd Solondz
Limp Pianistnew
As long as you happen to like the title song -- which repeats something like a bazillion times in various versions throughout -- this field trip to Budapest proves engaging enough, if also a little limp.
Cleveland Scene |
Gregory Weinkauf |
05-04-2005 |
Reviews
The Fair and Balanced Crusadenew
Determined not to cause any historical offense, Ridley Scott creates bland bloodshed in the Holy Land—and a hero to suit.
Seattle Weekly |
Tim Appelo |
05-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven
Backward And Forward And Doomed?new
Todd Solondz wants it both ways with Palindromes.
Boston Phoenix |
Gerald Peary |
05-03-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
High Decibel: Of Romance and Music Videosnew
In just under four minutes, the music video for The Killers' "Mr. Brightside" encapsulates the entirety of human romance. Along the way it inspires reconciliation fantasies and causes an identity crisis of Jungian proportions.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
05-02-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Cold Casenew
In the telling of this tortured tale of a 13-year-old boy facing tough choices, David Duchovny commits almost every crime the coming-of-age genre is prone to.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
05-02-2005 |
Reviews
Deaf, Not Dumbnew
Writer-director Michael Dowse's mockumentary posits itself as a true-story biography of a legendary Ibiza-based DJ named Frankie Wilde, who goes deaf from too much noise and drugs.
East Bay Express |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-02-2005 |
Reviews
Jokes? What Jokes?new
The droll has been made dull, a most inexplicable and unfortunate turn of events for so adored a genius, goofball work as Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-02-2005 |
Reviews
Shoot to Killnew
A nonstop orgy of bullets, bombs and booty aims low and hits the bull's-eye with enough firepower to sink the Bismarck.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
The Winters and Our Discontentnew
Neither a change of seasons nor truly wonderful performances can breathe life into this dismally enervated drama.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Josh Sternfeld, Winter Solstice
Seoul Survivornew
This 2003 revenger from Korean upstart Chan-wook Park is a multilayered, intensely performed, shockingly violent, and viscerally visual tour de force.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Chan-wook Park, Oldboy
Don't Pay Upnew
A mirthless comedy about venal people doing stupid things, King's Ransom has little chance of box-office success.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jeff Byrd, King's Ransom
House of Painnew
Here’s an interesting surprise: Dour, dry David Duchovny’s directorial debut is more weepy than creepy, a conventional coming-of-age story that flashes back to 1970s New York City.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-30-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Duchovny, House of D
