Archive for November, 2006
Movie Review | ‘Turistas’: Ugly Americans, Young, Attractive and Tormented
November 30th, 2006 by MANOHLA DARGISSyndicated Reviews
If stupidity were a crime, the nitwits in the cheap horror flick “Turistas” would be doing time in Attica....
Movie Review | ’3 Needles’: The Long and Fatal Reach of an Unyielding Epidemic
November 30th, 2006 by STEPHEN HOLDENSyndicated Reviews
Had it taken a more hard-headed approach, “3 Needles” might have been to the AIDS epidemic what “Traffic” was to the drug trade....
Movie Review | ‘The Architect’: Malaise in the Projects, and Elsewhere
November 30th, 2006 by STEPHEN HOLDENSyndicated Reviews
“The Architect,” written and directed by Matt Tauber from a play by the Scottish writer David Greig, feels like a creaky, tone-deaf classroom exercise in mechanical contrivance....
Movie Review | ‘The Nativity Story’: The Virgin Mary as a Teenager With Worries
November 30th, 2006 by A. O .SCOTTSyndicated Reviews
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a script by Mike Rich, "The Nativity Story" sticks to the familiar details of the narrative and dramatizes them with sincerity and good taste....
Movie Review | ’10 Items or Less’: Lingering on the Express Line: Bagging Some Humanity Amid Bar-Code Scanners
November 30th, 2006 by A. O .SCOTTSyndicated Reviews
Brad SilberlingÂ’s new movie has nothing to prove, and not all that much to say, but its modesty and good humor make it hard to...