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’Til Death Do Us Partnew
Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.
Austin Chronicle |
Marrit Ingman |
04-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ray McKinnon, Chrystal
Remodeling a Haunted Housenew
A dream home on Long Island is not all it's cracked up to be: The family inside sees dead people.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
04-14-2005 |
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Animated Anthologynew
This second incarnation of the Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt-produced animation anthology is, if anything, even better than the first.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-14-2005 |
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Fun at Fenwaynew
Jimmy Fallon is almost decent in this feel-good baseball-romance flick.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
04-14-2005 |
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Humanizing Horrornew
This drama about Hitler's last days is an instant classic.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
04-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Oliver Hirschbiegel, Downfall
Romantic Comedy Ends Up Actually Being About Somethingnew
The pointedly unfunny first half-hour makes Fallon and Barrymore look like big-screen comedy rookies. But once the film starts digging into sports rituals, fan psychology and incompatible passions, Fever Pitch turns into the rare Hollywood romantic comedy that's actually about something.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-14-2005 |
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The Thug Franchise Continuesnew
Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash is already loaded, so it's incomprehensible why he would need to sell this nihilistic, violent cinematic crack to a world that already has plenty of hate to go around.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
04-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Damon Dash, State Property 2
Little Gems Found Among Oscar-Nominated Short Filmsnew
Episodes from and about youth shine in Academy Award Nominated Shorts 2005, a program made up of four live-action and four animated short Oscar contenders.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
04-14-2005 |
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Hello Is for Childrennew
Turtles Can Fly mines the kid-survivor stories of Kurdish Iraq.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Susan Gerhard |
04-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bahman Ghobadi, Turtles Can Fly
Grudge Matchnew
Payback's a bitch in Park Chan-wook's thrilling Oldboy.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
04-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Park Chan-wook, Oldboy
Fortunate Sonnew
This film directed by the son of Michael Eisner is a stunning piece of work -- stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every way imaginable.
Head in the Sandnew
This documentary honors the desert race the Baja 1000 with overheated prose.
East Bay Express |
Bill Gallo |
04-11-2005 |
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Rose in Bloomnew
The title characters in this highly literate film are an unreconstructed hippie remnant from the 1960s and his dreamy-eyed teenage daughter, who live in self-imposed exile on an island off the mid-Atlantic coast.
The Grapes of Mirthnew
Jonathan Nossiter's documentary exposing the globalization of the wine industry is subversive, funny and humane.
Farrellys Strike Outnew
Don’t go into the Farrelly brothers’ Fever Pitch seeking an adaptation along the lines of the merely Yankified remix of the Nick Hornby novel High Fidelity: This is not that – not even close.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
04-08-2005 |
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