AltWeeklies Wire
Chili Leftoversnew
The follow-up to Elmore Leanard's Get Shorty is rife with star talent but short on inspiration.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Be Cool, F. Gary Gray
Nothing But a Mannew
Early film from South Korea's enfant terrible Kim Ki-duk is a coarse and distubing drama about obsessive love.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kim Ki-duk, Bad Guy
LA. Werewolf Storynew
Wes Craven shows he's lost his touch with the much-maligned Cursed.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Wes Craven, Cursed
Love, Loans and Lionsnew
The latest Merchant of Venice film sticks faithfully to the Elizabethan era.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Apocalypse Then and Nownew
It's always dangerous to make direct links between current events and pop-culture phenomena: So much time usually lags between the conception of a novel, record, or movie and its eventual release that such connections are, at best, coincidence. Let's just say that the small wave of time-travel movies that started last year with The Butterfly Effect is...interesting.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jim Ridley |
03-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Maybury, The Jacket
Flick Weaves a Wandering Webnew
Government official Dondup's escape from his Himalayan home proves increasingly futile in Travellers and Magicians. As it progresses, Bhutanese monk/filmmaker Khyentse Norbu lets some of the realism dissipate as his film begins to take on the ambiance of a fairy tale.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-03-2005 |
Reviews
MTV Visuals and a Ludicrous Plot Unravel The Jacketnew
On a Gulf War battlefield, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) experiences the first of many head injuries when he's shot point-blank by an Iraqi child. Viewers may also feel as if they've experienced blunt trauma to the head after watching The Jacket.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
03-03-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: John Maybury, The Jacket
Fresh Meat: Six Spankin' New Midseason Shows
Kirstie Alley makes up for all her lousy post-Cheers work with a single manic scene in the premiere of Showtime's Fat Actress. Also reviewed: Jake in Progress, The Sketch Show, Power Girls, Hollow Men and Mr. Romance.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
03-03-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Get Shoddynew
Be Cool is redundant to the point of being absolutely pointless, a sequel that's almost a note-for-note, beat-for-beat redo of its predecessor, only with all the entertaining stuff left out.
Tags: Be Cool, F. Gary Gray
Soul-Damaging Sequelnew
The beginning of Son of the Mask is OK, but it's all downhill from there.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Lawrence Guterman, Son of the Mask
Well-Acted Hellnew
Even though Keanu Reeves is slightly less sucky than one may expect, Constantine should still be avoided.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, Constantine
Black Woman Risingnew
Tyler Perry, a star of the black gospel theater circuit, plays three roles in this tale of a woman's liberation from a vicious, no-good, two-timing rascal of a husband.
Sea Inside Champions Right to Dienew
Although the director succumbs at times to TV-movie clichés, the film never loses sight of the emotional repercussions of the euthanasia issue as it builds to a conclusion in which tragedy cannot be separated from triumph.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Alejandro Amenábar, The Sea Inside
Mad Black Woman Tries to Appeal to Everyonenew
Like an all-you-can-eat buffet, there is an overwhelming abundance to sample here. You can have a little bit of everything in Diary of a Mad Black Woman but still feel unsatisfied by the time you leave
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
02-25-2005 |
Reviews
Nobody Knows Is a Heartbreaking Look at Child Abandonmentnew
Nobody Knows ends far from happily or neatly, and even when moments at the conclusion brush with sentiment, the film never strays from the emotional truth of its story about the plight of homeless children.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-25-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Hirokazu Kore-eda, Nobody Knows
