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Toga Partynew
An academic takes a gimlet-eyed view of Troy, The Passion of the Christ and Alexander.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
David Larsen |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
Region Bullnew
With enforcement of copyright laws being lax in Southeast Asia, many unreleased American gems can be found on DVD.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Chuck Stephens |
12-29-2004 |
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Baby, It's Cold Inside the Theaternew
Despite the coming of Kinsey and company, sex was paltry, ominous, and perverse at the movies.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
12-29-2004 |
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Men on Firenew
A Bay Guardian critic reports on the many macho movies of 2004 and finds that films carved from the craggy rocks of dude-dom hogged the lion's share of marquee space.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
12-29-2004 |
Movies
From the Bamboo Grove to W(h)ine Countrynew
The best of 2004 came from all over the cinematic map: foreign films, American independents, and, yes, some big-budget mainstream efforts.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
12-29-2004 |
Reviews
Shock Around the Clock: TV Highlights, January 6-13
In Bush's America, any movie that makes Texas look worse than France has got to be considered revolutionary. ABC Family TV Movie She Gets What She Wants delivers. Also reviewed are 24, Masterpiece Theatre's He Knew He Was Right, Unscripted, Crank Yankers and more.
Tags: TV
Phantom Menacenew
Joel Schumacher's version of a theater classic gets a tragic ending of its own.
Cleveland Scene |
Bill Gallo |
12-29-2004 |
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Sea of Loathenew
Wes Anderson takes Bill Murray out to sea and strands him there.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
12-29-2004 |
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Bobby Darin's Show-Biz Race Against Timenew
More "Splish" than "Splash," this biopic about the life of pop crooner Bobby Darin is practically a one-man Kevin Spacey show.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
12-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Kevin Spacey, beyond the sea
Haunted-House Movie Is Completely Vacantnew
Darkness is a godawful mess, a Eurotrash horror film for the new millennium.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
12-29-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: Darkness, Jaume Balagueró
Focking Wonderfulnew
When your movie gets riotous laughter out of endless utterances of the word "Focker," it doesn't have to try very hard. But Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman light this film on fire.
Cleveland Scene |
Robert Wilonsky |
12-29-2004 |
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Eternal Sunshine Brightens a Dark Year for Moviesnew
Nine of Michael Atkinson's Top 10 hobbled at the box office in a year he calls the worst for movies since 1981.
The Village Voice |
Michael Atkinson |
12-29-2004 |
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Huckabees Is Film Critic's Top Choicenew
I (Heart) Huckabees, David O. Russell's blithely profound mishmash of screwball Sartre and zany Zen, tops Dennis Lim's list. He calls it "a furiously depressed howl of liberal-left impotence that somehow lands on a grace note of provisional optimism."
The Village Voice |
Dennis Lim |
12-29-2004 |
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Underground Movie Is No. 1 on Critic's Top 10 Listnew
Ken Jacobs' Star Spangled to Death, a vast, ironic pageant of 20th-century American history, is the ultimate underground movie, says J. Hoberman, who chooses it as the best film of 2004.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-29-2004 |
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New American Romanticism Wins Hearts of Alt Criticsnew
Before Sunset, directed by Richard Linklater, was the decisive winner of the 2004 poll of alternative press film critics, as the new American romanticism bucked electoral disaster.
The Village Voice |
J. Hoberman |
12-29-2004 |
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