Friday, October 14 2005
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)
Prize Winner goes through odd motions to set Evelyn's taxing context and her admirable survival, its most extraordinary moment turns surreal.
Wednesday, January 26 2005
Mean Creek (2003)
'This shot here... is like a window opening up onto this kid's world,' says Jacob Aaron Estes.
Friday, August 27 2004
Mean Creek (2003)
The crisis doesn't produce good and bad behaviors, so much as it challenges such moralistic definitions, exploring the pressures that lead to kids' seeming deviance.
Hardball (2001)
The fact that Hardball's Conor is white means nothing, of course, except that he's one in a long line of white characters who become 'better people' because they meet adorable, courageous, noble, and/or doomed minority characters.
The Glass House (2001)
'The Glass House' can't manage its own metaphors, and ends up tripping all over itself in order to give them a coherent context.
