Filth and Wisdom

Madonna's film-directing debut, which stars Gogol Bordello charismatic frontman Eugene Hutz, is a slight and philosophically dubious effort.

"...Although Madonna co-wrote the screenplay with Dan Cadan (a Guy Ritchie associate) from a story idea of hers, she..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flushed Away

Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.

"...if they just stepped off the set of a Guy Ritchie picture. With his unnerving, wobbly eyes and stentorian..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Ushpizin

This Israeli comedy is a wholly original movie that's set and filmed entirely within the insular realm of Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Hasidim.

"...Avraham Abutboul. The Israeli comedy Ushpizin begins something like Guy Ritchie’s Snatch and ends like the Coen brothers’ Raising..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Unleashed

Jet Li, in his first Western role of any depth, convincingly plays both man and beast, although a sentimental script by producer Luc Besson hampers the story.

"...come close, assistant-directing 2002's Corey Yuen-helmed The Transporter, featuring Guy Ritchie regular Jason Statham as a no-questions-asked courier of..."

May 20, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eurotrip

A kinder, gentler teen sex comedy?

"...("Fuckin’ in the Bushes" would’ve been aces, had not Guy Ritchie already nailed it to the climactic fight scene..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Swept Away ... by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August

"...Giancarlo Giannini. No, it's not the much-ridiculed Madonna and Guy Ritchie remake that stalled in its tracks before making..."

Jan. 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars

"...of space cops, including former Species babe Henstridge and Guy Ritchie favorite Statham. Apparently, there's been some sort of..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sexy Beast

"...as I can see it's closer to some of Guy Ritchie's work -- a more adult version of Lock,..."

June 29, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

One

"...promise much depth. The principals are two young Italian-American guys living in a working-class San Francisco neighborhood. Nick (Picoy)..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Human Traffic

"...Kerrigan wears his influences proudly; stylistic echoes of Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, Danny Boyle, and P.T. Anderson abound in virtually..."

June 9, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Greatest Stories Ever Told

The 2010 Paramount Summer Film Classics

"...ago, Richard Attenborough was in a public feud with Guy Ritchie. The Oscar winner had accused the Lock, Stock..."

May 21, 2010 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Sherlock Holmes

As London's preternatural sleuth, John Barrymore broods through the producers' emphasis on his matinee-idol "Great Profile" even as his alcoholism continued tightening his sharp features

"...Law rejuvenates Dr. John Watson in suspect UK mastermind Guy Ritchie's forthcoming detective caper. One thing's for sure, however:..."

June 26, 2009 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Short Cuts

Richard Linklater goes to Sundance.

"...included Sam Raimi's The Gift and the wildly anticipated Guy Ritchie caper flick Snatch with attending actor Ade swarmed..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Column by Marc Savlov

Roll 'Em

March

"...Robert De Niro doing a comic version of his wiseguy persona and has Billy Crystal and Lisa Kudrow providing..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sausage Bang

Chris Cubas and Kath Barbadoro call the shots on Moontower's all-guy and all-gal shows

"...immutable truth of those rankings, well, 2011 winner Andy Ritchie has moved to L.A. – so that makes Cubas..."

April 27, 2012 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Comfortably Butt Numb

11 movies, 24 hours, 230 stinky film fans -- a diary from Harry Knowles' second annual Butt-Numb-a-thon

"...snaking out the men's bathroom. There are about 10 guys for every girl here, which means I saunter into..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Try WAGYUMAFIA’s Famous Japanese Wagyu Sando at Parlor & Yard This Weekend

Chef Hamada praises Austin’s “perfect house party feeling”

"...enjoyed by celebrities like David Beckham, Ed Sheeran, and Guy Ritchie, consists of premium Wagyu Chateaubriand breaded in Panko..."

April 26, 2024 Food Post by Taylor Tobin

Top 10 Most Read Film Reviews of 2020

The pandemic picks you wanted to read about

"...After his far-from-magical live action remake of Aladdin, Guy Ritchie went back to his old Sarf Lanhdan gangster..."

Dec. 19, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Festival Films You Haven't Seen Yet

From charming zombies to pompous actors, 10 films to seek in 2019

"...Blame Guy Ritchie, but British crime dramas have become synonymous with..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVDanger: Dog Eat Dog

Paul Schrader is the old dog learning new tricks

"...in this [crime] genre, after Scorsese, after Tarantino, after Guy Ritchie." That's why he went for that younger team...."

Nov. 13, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Richard Attenborough: Tougher Than The Rest

Recalling a 2000 meeting with the late, great director

"...vital enough to call out other filmmakers: He'd lambasted Guy Ritchie as "a pornographer of violence" because of his..."

Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

DVD Watch

Three selections from Lina Wertmüller's Seventies output

"...her bad self around Giancarlo's real-life son Adriano in Guy Ritchie's legendarily awful 2002 remake...."

June 22, 2012 Screens Review by Marc Savlov

FF2011: Getting Fisted By 'Knuckle'

An interview with 'Knuckle' director Ian Palmer

"...We know Brad Pitt played a pugilistic Traveller in Guy Ritchie's Snatch, but that's pretty much all we know...."

Sept. 22, 2011 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

The Horror of Selling Out

Harry Knowles talks about the films that could have been

"...Statham (who had great buzz from his turn in Guy Ritchie's Snatch) as lead character Desolation Williams. Prior to..."

Jan. 22, 2008 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

In Print

'Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute'

"...for the commentaries we really want while settling for Guy Ritchie's awe-inspiring defense of Swept Away...."

March 31, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

The Great Escape

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

"...Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels director (aka "Mr. Madonna") Guy Ritchie, Snatch, a crime thriller with a spider-web storyline..."

Nov. 24, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

1999 Film Critics Poll

"...Sam Mendes (American Beauty), Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), Guy Ritchie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Screens Feature

Where Comedy Lives

Austin stand-ups have a complex – and it's called the Sandstone Apartments

"..."I knew this guy who was the apartment manager here," says Staats. "And..."

Nov. 25, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Running the Funny

Club manager Margie Coyle has kept the laughter going for 20 years

"...you?" asks Coyle. "You wanna get some coffee? These guys have it set up in the kitchen." These guys:..."

July 10, 2009 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Bigger Stakes

Richard Linklater on remixing 'The Bad News Bears'

"...flagged down (try the Movie Store on Guadalupe), Michael Ritchie's swift kick in the athletic supporter of our great..."

July 29, 2005 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

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