[Fri, 30.Jun.06]
:. The Devil Wears Prada
"You sold your soul the first time you put on that pair of Jimmy Choos." So ascertains Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), editor-in-chief at Runway magazine.
:. Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Lian Lunson's concert documentary works against itself, with too many gushing tributes and not enough Cohen.
:. Wassup Rockers
Though disaster is inevitable, the movie makes its point: the boys are cool, utterly and unstoppably.
[Wed, 28.Jun.06]
:. Superman Returns
Superman has seen the aftermath of world destruction, and he's come back with a perspective not quite so boldly idealistic or pompously ideological.
:. Strangers with Candy
Jerri Blank repeatedly acts like a feral white trash child, a sort of spiteful id.
[Mon, 26.Jun.06]
:. Waist Deep
"Save our streets! Save our streets!" So pronounce the earnest demonstrators who appear at the start of Waist Deep, their placards raised high, their faces showing frustration.
[Fri, 23.Jun.06]
:. The Road to Guantánamo
The very illegibility of the movie's representational process, you imagine, approximates the assaults on the prisoners.
:. Click
While the movie's point is clear enough from frame one, it's so blatant and comes at such a high price that you feel mostly battered by its end.
[Thur, 22.Jun.06]
:. The King
Though Elvis seems impelled by the memory of his dead Mexican mother and trained to deliver a certain calculated violence, his power is illusory.
[Fri, 16.Jun.06]
:. Nacho Libre
On one hand another formulaic loutish white boy saga, it also undercuts that premise, at least intermittently, offering instead a vision of unregulatable, unanxious, unwhite masculinity.
:. The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Part coming-of-age tale, part auto show, and part parade of girls in high school uniforms, Tokyo Drift also comes with inventive, lots-of-fun race scenes.
:. The Lake House
Shuffled around amid a series of very pretty split screens and unmoored voiceovers, Alex and Kate must create a relationship out of very contrived air.
[Wed, 14.Jun.06]
:. The Heart of the Game
Ward Serrill's smart, challenging documentary traces not only Darnellia and Resler's complicated relationship, but also a series of stories concerning high school athletics, race and class, and most importantly, girls.
[Fri, 9.Jun.06]
:. Cars
Thrilling in its shiny surface detail, the NASCAR scene stretches before you like an anthropomorphized vista: this is the immediate future of animation, and Pixar, recently and loudly sold to Disney, means to own it.
:. A Prairie Home Companion #1
A Prairie Home Companion combines typical Altman strategies, like overlapping dialogue and converging multiple storylines, as well as his fanatical appreciation for the process of creating art.
:. A Prairie Home Companion #2
You might call A Prairie Home Companion an unlikely Lindsay Lohan movie. You could also call it the best work she's done, the best work she's likely to do, or the best chance she's had to do good work.
[Thur, 8.Jun.06]
:. An Inconvenient Truth
Now that he's lost a presidential contest and done a couple of Saturday Night Lives, it appears Mr. Ex-veep is on a roll.
[Tues, 6.Jun.06]
:. The Omen
By the time poor Kate visits a shrink who embodies all the institutional and moral restrictions she faces daily, you're wanting everyone to jump off rooftops, preferably with nooses.
[Fri, 2.Jun.06]
:. District B13
Pierre Morel's film maintains a healthy tension, as Damien believes in "the law" and Leïto is never convinced of its efficacy or good intentions.
:. The Break-Up
The most compelling question the Vince Vaughn/Jennifer Aniston vehicle raises has to do with the state of the romantic comedy.
:. Lady Vengeance
The film offers its characters what was missing in Chan-wook Park previous vengeance films: the hope of redemption.
:. The Puffy Chair
The road trip then becomes an occasion for an extended game of relationship chicken: is Josh going to grow up and commit or is Emily going to accept him and stop criticizing?
:. Surf School
It's as though Silverman asked a group of 13-year-olds to describe a "hippie" and then created the aging flower children based on their answers.
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