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Archive: "Spiderman 2" (from July 2004)
Uh, settle down, America. First of all, I hope all of you did your patriotic duty and responded to the merciless advertising and cross-promotional campaigns and saw Spider-Man 2 over the Fourth of July weekend. It was, a… -
Archive: "Something's Gotta Give" (from December 2003)
There were seven commercials preceding Sunday evening's screening of Something's Gotta Give. Seven. Seven advertisements. That's more than on television. Perhaps that's part of the reason the movie that followed these se… -
Review: "The Lives of Others"
Two moments at the Oscar ceremony fucked up everybody’s pools: When Alan Arkin yanked the Supporting Actor Oscar from frontrunner Eddie Murphy (a deserved upset, at least to all of us forever scarred by Norbit), and when… -
Review: "Pan's Labyrinth"
Pan’s Labyrinth is a vivid film, richly and sumptuously designed. Its visual flights of fancy are stunning, and the imagery cooked up by writer/director Guillermo del Toro is moody and fascinating. But… I’ve knocked this… -
Review: "Miss Potter"
Total objectivity is a lie, and so I’m not going to lie to you, dear reader: I was not exactly on fire to see Miss Potter. The film seemed, frankly, a desperate attempt by the still-struggling Weinstein Company to duplic… -
Review: "Volver"
Every once in a while, you just plain miss the boat. Whether it is a band whose success escapes you (for me, that’d be The Killers), a TV show that seems entirely unexceptional in spite of mountains of hype to the contra… -
Review: "El Topo"
El Topo is one of those films where the backstory trumps anything onscreen. Originally released in 1970, the underground Mexican surrealist western caught the fancy of the New York counterculture when it ran for months a… -
Short Review: "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her"
I'm more of an admirer of Jean-Luc Godard than a fan; for me, his films fall squarely into two categories: those I'm supposed to like (Contempt, Weekend), and those that I actually like (Band of Outsiders, Breathless). C… -
Review: "Blood Diamond"
The first indication that something went very wrong at the screenplay stage in Edward Zwick’s new film Blood Diamond occurs around the twenty minute mark, when Leonard DiCaprio’s character is asked, “How long have I know… -
Review: "Bobby"
If you’re looking for a compelling argument for the importance of a good screenplay, allow me to submit Emilio Estevez’s Bobby as Exhibit A. It would seem that all of the ingredients are in place for a great film: a soli…
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Theatre Hopping: "Lake of Fire" and "My Kid Could Paint That"
Let’s get this out of the way, right up front: Ton...
