Archive for September, 2006

Movie Review | ‘loudQUIETloud’: Celebrating the Triumphant Return of the Pixies

by NATHAN LEE September 28th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
Boring people who made extraordinary music, the Pixies are inexplicable. In attempting to demystify them, this backstage pass to their 2004 reunion tour achieves the opposite.
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Movie Review | ‘Broken Sky’: In an Epic of Nonverbal Desire, It Is the Details That Matter

by NATHAN LEE September 28th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
Boy meets boy like you’ve never seen in Julián Hernández’s sex-drenched, extravagantly minimalist epic.
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Movie Review | ‘School for Scoundrels’: Sad Sacks Seek Instruction in the Ways of Courtship

by MANOHLA DARGIS September 28th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
Billy Bob Thornton's estimable talents are squandered in this shoddy comedy directed by Todd Phillips ("Old School").
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Movie Review | ‘Open Season’: An Oddball Army in a Cartoon Wilderness

by LAURA KERN September 28th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
Periodic bursts of cleverness and eye-popping imagery canÂ’t disguise that this is just another movie full of jive-talking computer-generated animals with little new to say.
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Movie Review | ‘Be With Me’: Three Tales Revolving Around a Real Life

by STEPHEN HOLDEN September 28th, 2006 | Movie Reviews
Although four stories are folded together in Eric KhooÂ’s elliptical film, it's the true story of a deaf and blind Singaporean woman that gives the movie its backbone.
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