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Monsters Inknew
Bennett Miller’s movie plumbs the personal toll that Truman Capote’s book In Cold Blood took on its subjects and its author.
Baltimore City Paper |
Violet Glaze |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Capote, Bennett Miller
Sins of the Fathernew
The man looking for his missing 6-year-old daughter in this deeply moving film is the kind of pariah most urban dwellers will do anything to avoid.
A Family Adriftnew
Nothing in Noah Baumbach's filmography suggests he had within him something as treacherously funny and wrenchingly sad as The Squid and the Whale.
Love in the Late Afternoonnew
Steve Martin stretches his novella into a modest, melancholy and affecting film.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
10-26-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Steve Martin, Shopgirl
Crossoverkill
True TV plots the ultimate CBS crossover event: 19 shows in one week.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Bill Frost |
10-25-2005 |
TV
Tags: TV
Staying Tunednew
Where can you hear your favorite Who, Jefferson Airplane and David Bowie tunes? In television ads for Nissan, Tommy Hilfiger and FTD.
Seven Days |
Rick Kisonak |
10-25-2005 |
TV
The Moore, The Merrier
The Legend of Zorro recalls the preposterous fun of 1970s James Bond.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
10-25-2005 |
Reviews
Bent Out of Shapenew
This gay slasher flick probably won't scare many in the audience aside from misplaced Southern Baptists.
Riverfront Times |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-25-2005 |
Reviews
A Riviera Confectionnew
Sex is on everybody's mind in this breezy, insouciant French film about about confused identities, misunderstandings, hidden truths and sexual shenanigans.
Miami New Times |
Jean Oppenheimer |
10-24-2005 |
Reviews
Countdown to Twelvenew
Set in El Salvador in the early 1980s, during that country's protracted civil unrest, this powerful movie depicts the nightmare of warfare through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy.
Miami New Times |
Jean Oppenheimer |
10-24-2005 |
Reviews
Strange Brewnew
Great performances by male leads Kevin Bacon and Colin Firth can't save this film about an obsessed celebrity journalist from a B-movie script.
East Bay Express |
Melissa Levine |
10-24-2005 |
Reviews
Requiem for a Dreamernew
This movie about a girl and a racing horse needs to be put down as soon as possible.
Dallas Observer |
Luke Y. Thompson |
10-24-2005 |
Reviews
Getting Back in the Gamenew
This dewy story of a girl and her horse has its snout stuck on Page One of the family-flick playbook: Well-meaning dad does something to disappoint his sensitive kid; kid bolts from the room in tears; they reconcile a few scenes later; repeat as necessary.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
Reviews
Where Rivers and Gurus Convergenew
This documentary about a massive yet surprisingly unknown spiritual gathering shows 70 million enlightenment-seekers arriving in Allahabad, India, where three holy rivers (one of which is a mythical, nonphysical river) converge.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-21-2005 |
Reviews
U Got the Looknew
It's not often you feel compelled to recommend a film almost entirely on the basis of its art direction, but that's the case with MirrorMask, luscious evidence that the look of modern fantasy cinema can amount to more than bald-faced Tim Burton swipes arriving 15 years after the fact.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
10-21-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dave McKean, MirrorMask
