Stay Alive
Contrary to the hopes of geeks everywhere, Stay Alive is not an all-zombie musical remake of Sly Stallone's 1983 Saturday Night Fever sequel, but instead a fatuous and dull horror film about gamers.
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Marc Savlov, March 31, 2006
Go for Zucker!
As two German families collide, the film explores its characters’ shared history to unravel the challenges of political and personal reunification.
Marrit Ingman, March 31, 2006
Joyeux Noël
The title suggests a seasonal release, but this remarkable film is very much of the moment, suggesting the futility of war by depicting the “Christmas truce” of 1914 from three sides in the battle.
Marrit Ingman, March 31, 2006
Trudell
John Trudell, the Native American rights activist and spoken-word artist and musician, is the subject of this reverential biographical portrait that feels more like a press package than a full-fledged biopic.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 31, 2006
Ice Age: The Meltdown
An exercise in the superfluous, this sequel lacks the original film’s geniality – and all of its pro-environment stumping.
Kimberley Jones, March 31, 2006
The Dick Cavett Show: Comic Legends
Steve Uhler, March 24, 2006
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Lots of information and finely honed arguments characterize this vicariously thrilling and joyous documentary that explores heavy metal’s many permutations and sheer endurance over the past 30-odd years.
Marc Savlov, March 24, 2006
Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
Tristram Shandy’s inspired, breakneck madness provides a good forum for Michael Winterbottom’s chief talent: the illumination of human nature, with all its messes and occasional marvels.
Kimberley Jones, March 24, 2006
Cowboy del Amor
Ivan Thompson, the "Cowboy Cupid" who brokers marriages between American men and Mexican women, is a truly fascinating documentary character that is expertly revealed through rock-solid storytelling.
Marrit Ingman, March 24, 2006
Tsotsi
Winner of the 2005 Best Foreign Language Oscar, this South African entry is a harsh but ultimately redemptive tale of a young gang leader who lives in a Johannesburg shantytown.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 24, 2006
Duck Season
Despite being a movie about youthful inertia among some Mexico City adolescents stuck at home by themselves, Duck Season is squirmy, restless and avidly visual.
Marrit Ingman, March 24, 2006
She's the Man
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night gets a teen-movie rehash in this manic panic of a mess that never rises to even the lowest levels of the Bard’s cross-dressing comedy of errors.
Marc Savlov, March 24, 2006
Unknown White Male
The ambitions of this intriguing documentary about one man’s amnesia far outweigh its accomplishments.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 24, 2006
Inside Man
Although with Denzel, Jodie, and Clive in tow it would be difficult to go wrong, Spike Lee and screenwriter Russell Gewirtz have created a truly original film from various shopworn genre clichés.
Marc Savlov, March 24, 2006
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
Jonathan Demme dreams us back to the golden age of performance films, in which Neil Young unfolds his latest album Prairie Wind in concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
Raoul Hernandez, March 17, 2006
SXSW Film Festival 2006
Something for everyone. See www.sxsw.com/film for full schedule.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 17, 2006
V for Vendetta
This is a thinking person’s action film – a futuristic slice of pop-culture agitprop, replete with a costumed antihero, lovingly choreographed action sequences, cunningly ornate dialogue, and a terrific, rousing score.
Marc Savlov, March 17, 2006
Why We Fight
Jarecki’s canny and somewhat overwhelming documentary paints a grim historical picture of war profiteering run amok.
Marc Savlov, March 10, 2006
Ultraviolet
In an opening voiceover, a superhuman killing machine warns, “I was born into a world you may not understand.” Boy hidee, she ain’t kidding, and fully 88 minutes later, that world is still pocked with incomprehensibility.
Kimberley Jones, March 10, 2006
Gay Sex in the 70s
Little more than a series of interviews with those who survived those times, interspersed with titillating soft-core clips from the archives, this documentary offers a sympathetic perspective of the post-Stonewall sexual liberation years in New York City.
Steve Davis, March 10, 2006
Private
This Italian film presents a modern parable about a Palestinian family, whose home in the West Bank is abruptly taken over by Israeli soldiers.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 10, 2006
Failure to Launch
This date movie is dude-friendly by design, but all its attention to hairdos and cute outfits does not make up for its lack of romantic spark.
Marrit Ingman, March 10, 2006
The Libertine
Johnny Depp runs away with the show in this murkily filmed picture, cackling all the while and defiling beauty in all its forms as the exceedingly decadent Earl of Rochester.
Marc Savlov, March 10, 2006
The Shaggy Dog
There are precious few surprises here, but this breezy remake starring Tim Allen is a painless affair.
Marc Savlov, March 10, 2006
The Hills Have Eyes
This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.
Marc Savlov, March 10, 2006
Night Watch
Russia's highest box-office grosser (until the release of its sequel) is a stylish sci-fi thriller that's filled with adrenaline-fueled pacing, an abundance of gory effects, a death metal soundtrack, and a convoluted narrative that puts The Matrix to shame.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 3, 2006
Madea's Family Reunion
In this sequel to last year’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Tyler Perry ups the ante and includes Cicely Tyson and Maya Angelou in his coffee klatch.
Marc Savlov, March 3, 2006
16 Blocks
Richard Donner still has it. 16 Blocks may be a formulaic good-cops/bad-cops actioner, but it’s rarely stereotypical.
Marc Savlov, March 3, 2006
Three Days of Rain
A drama by debut filmmaker Michael Meredith is a Chekhov-inspired collection of semi-intertwined vignettes about a half-dozen or so depressed people living in Cleveland, and features an impressive cast.
Marjorie Baumgarten, March 3, 2006
Doogal
A clunker if there ever was one, Doogal is so mind-numbingly incoherent that parents and children alike will stare dazedly at the movie screen wondering what the heck is going on.
