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Reel Paradise (2005)
Can be voyeuristically interesting...[but] James fails to justify this for-hire, backfired vanity project in an age glutted with reality TV.
An Unfinished Life (2005)
Provides a useful contrast to good dramas....Redford and Freeman should have invested their chops elsewhere.
Crustacés et Coquillages (a.k.a. Côte d'Azur) (2005)
If the memory of the film flits away soon after viewing, the comic beats are amusing.
Margaret Cho: Assassin (2005)
Soft in the middle, and none of Cho's stories here take on an epic scope....[Yet] the comedienne remains endearingly naughty.
Transporter 2 (2005)
Transporter 2
has the narrative skills and libido of a newly pubescent boy.
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
Sing, muse! Sing of a century-hence future when we shall all/Drive impractically bulky cars and pay through the teeth/To hunt dinosaurs on a TimeSafari to the past!
Crimen Ferpecto (Ferpect Crime) (2005)
Iglesia's comic cautionary tale observes the monsters created by "every man for himself" attitudes.
Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress) (2005)
Here's a rare one: a novel adapted to film by the author himself. Sijie Dai wrote Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress in 2000, and shortly thereafter directed his own screenplay. Though the film...
Eternal (2005)
A terrible script, pedestrian direction, and acting that's mediocre at best signify that
Eternal
...[is] ready-made, moderately sexy fodder for late-night Skin-emax.
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
Nothing is less shocking than a movie that's constantly trying to shock....more bite than bark, but it's all dog.
Red Eye (2005)
Wes Craven banishes the memory of
Cursed
to bring us a lean thriller that's just right for armrest-gripping.
Valiant (2005)
Valiant
is sadly boring, and while its rote mechanics may function nominally on children, it's going to be a long 76 minutes for the adults.
Supercross (2005)
Dude, I
am
bummed.
9 Songs (2005)
May I humbly suggest you go to a concert or have sex instead? Heck, do both.
Grizzly Man (2005)
We're spared the sounds [of Treadwell's death], but haunted by our own mental image, one more example of the individual's capacity to create his own reality.
Four Brothers (2005)
Call
Four Brothers
a guilty pleasure....Singleton may go for easy laughs, but he gets them; the gut-level jolts may be ridiculous, but he delivers them (with style).
Broken Flowers (2005)
Has little more ambition than to make Murray the funny valentine of one of Jarmusch's mood pieces....indeed, some of the best moments are wordless.
Junebug (2005)
The balancing act of character contradictions ultimately becomes more about itself than true human behavior.
Ma Mère (2005)
Glazed-over looks, naked flesh, inane philosophizing, and sand dunes announce that we're in Antonioni-land, circa
Zabriskie Point
.
Nina's Tragedies (2005)
Passing eccentricities of character, but serious trouble staging honest and coherent emotional scenes....a surplus of preciousness and a deficit of truth-ringing reality.
Sud Pralad (Tropical Malady) (2005)
Weerasethakul's confident composition of sight and sound induces a trance-like state with an elegant suggestion: that all-consuming love is for old souls.
Sky High (2005)
Dissatisfying to an adult audience accustomed to more sophisticated parody....will resonate with young viewers on their way to high school.
Stealth (2005)
Lucas insists, "I just don't think war should become some kind of video game." Too late.
Must Love Dogs (2005)
Cutesy stuff, breezily amusing but...a basically weightless and disposable date movie.
Saraband (2005)
Partly an internalized memory play and partly a strident drama in the vein of Strindberg or Ibsen, Ingmar Bergman's latest swan song to cinema bears the mark of a master.
Gus Van Sant's Last Days (2005)
A sincere effort to sound an echo into Kurt Cobain's cave....Van Sant turns photographic art into screen poetry.
November (2005)
Telegraphs its unsatisfying payoff for miles, has no fun getting there, but at least boasts a running time of 73 minutes, padded by a hilariously slow credit crawl.
Wedding Crashers (2005)
Seen with forgiving eyes,
Wedding Crashers
is trashy, raunchy fun.
Happy Endings (2005)
Secrets and lies laid bare by a strong cast make Roos' happy endings cathartic and reassuring.
MANA—beyond belief (2005)
The medium is also the message: the film itself has mana, offering "a gateway into a whole realm of knowledge," material and spiritual.
Fantastic Four (2005)
So much...is bungled with inept storytelling and watered-down dialogue, and Story is so powerless to right the course, that
Fantastic Four
winds up more dopey than fun.
Le Vieil homme et l'enfant (a.k.a. The Two of Us) (1967)
A story that hasn't gone out of style....Perhaps Berri spoke for himself through the old man's self-summation: 'I don't have a church bell for a heart, but I respect life.'
Undead (2005)
Undead
is sort of imaginative and considerably scattershot....succeeded only in making me groggy.
Murderball (2005)
Never less than intriguing, and often adrenalized....[depicts] men who live harder than most "able-bodied" individuals.
Dark Water (2005)
Though
Dark Water
doesn't run deep....Salles keeps his head above [it]...with superior acting, mise en scene, story, script, and photography.
War of the Worlds (2005)
Has all the mechanized ingenuity of one of those dazzling Tripods, but the bigger they are....it's the gutless ending that renders
War of the Worlds
most insulting.
Rebound (2005)
Coming soon to a theatre near you: "Water Wings," with Adam Sandler coaching a swim team, and "With a Paddle," starring Eddie Murphy as a ping-pong coach.
George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005)
Romero delivers the satire and the gory action...[but this] isn't the masterpiece the posters claim. Still, lackluster Romero is better than no Romero at all...
Rize (2005)
Dance as an expression of the African collective unconsciousness, an expression of the anger born of oppression, and an expression of faith to overcome hardship.
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
As needless remakes go, Dawn of the Dead ain't half bad. George Romero's 1979 original was a B-movie masterpiece blending brutal terror and sick humor. If Zack Snyder's "re-envisioning" "improves" on...
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