The White Countess

The final collaboration between director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant is a gorgeous slice of Merchant Ivoryisms (thanks in large part to the lushly vertiginous cinematography of DP Christopher Doyle) that nevertheless fails to equal the team’s greatest works.

"...most Merchant/Ivory productions, which is to say too damn slow, but the film is snatched from the jaws of..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

The fourth Potter emphasizes the emotional over the gothic

"...fearing your new teacher yet again, and having to slow dance. Not every purist will like Newell’s strategy, but..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Chrystal

Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.

"...backwoods King Lear), exceeding its grasp. Better is the slow build of the first half, which finds Thornton taciturn..."

April 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Coach Carter

Come to this movie for the prominent hip-hop soundtrack and glossy sports action; leave with a message about teamwork, decency, and self-respect scorched into your brain.

"...sports genre a bad name: big speeches, beat-the-clock finales, slow-motion entrances, eyeglasses removed dramatically, training montages, scowling authority figures..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Surviving Christmas

Money can buy happiness goes the moral of this cynical yet mildly amusing comedy starring Ben Affleck and James Gandolfini.

"...could sell whale steak to Greenpeace. Gandolfini’s size and slow burn make a good foil for Affleck. (As the..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

You can't keep a bad zombie down.

"...The zombies, noticeably, are shot in the sort of slow-motion, blurred charges that render individual horrors moot, a sure..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Red Hot Mama

Jill Lewis of Austin Slow Burn

"...Kevin Lewis have turned a passionate avocation into Austin Slow Burn, a thriving international business that manufactures chile-pepper products..."

June 18, 2004 Food Feature by MM Pack

In My Skin

Disturbing French drama about a woman who cuts her own skin as a prelude to gnawing on her flesh.

"...one at that. As Esther, a distracted thirtysomething woman slowly edging up the corporate ladder, de Van enters the..."

Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girls Will Be Girls

Valley of the Dolls meets Female Trouble in this all-male semimusical romp.

"...and I’m not wild about the cutesy intertitles, which slow the action and overstate matters (which is no small..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppola spins a unique tale about a yearning, indelible love-affair-that-isn’t between characters played by Bill Murray and this season's It Girl Scarlett Johansson.

"...catharsis, the kind that exists outside of movies: the slow reawakening, triggered by the compassion and like-mindedness of another,..."

Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Herod's Law

Unflinching satire is diminished by overwritten messages.

"...flea-bitten rural village of San Pedro de los Saguaros slows the film to a more deliberate pace. Hand-picked by..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

"...kick-starts at roughly 100 mph and never bothers to slow down for characterization, and instead sustains a rocketing pace..."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Japón

"...in 16mm widescreen, the film is built on long, slow takes and circular pans that feel as though they..."

May 16, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Tuxedo

"...Michael Wilson ought to be shipped off on a slow boat to China and forced to toil as unpaid..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Academy Award-Nominated Shorts 2002

"...with crisis -- in its uncommon portrait of the slow death of family-owned farms in America. Writer/director Ray McKinnon..."

July 12, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cherish

"...studio, where she devotes most of her time to slow dancing to the wall-to-wall jams from KXCH “Cherish” (the..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Under the Sun

"...running time may seem, to some viewers, overindulgent and slow. Olof (Lassgard) is a lonely, 40-year-old farmer who places..."

March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kung Pow: Enter the Fist

"...of martial arts chopsocky flicks that apparently took the slow boat over, this might have been funny 10 or..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

One

"...of filmmaking in which emotions are held to a slow, controlled simmer, their latent power suggested mainly through visual..."

Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Catfish in Black Bean Sauce

"...labored scenes required to reach that point are often slow going. Paul Winfield (Sounder, Roots: The Next Generation) and..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Eye of the Beholder

"...for a rainy day and a Valium, this is slow-melting psychometrics at their worst, and a clear misfire for..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girl, Interrupted

"...cinematic aspects of his skills and instead allowing the slow burn of mental illness and all of its attendant..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Omega Code

"...religion per se. Instead, we're mainly treated to the slow, predictable resolution of a mundane techno-thriller plot focusing on..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors

"...her African-American identity. Putative bisexual Nick comes out in slow degrees as unabashedly gay. Inseparable straight buddies Gerardo and..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Eternity and a Day

"...whole new set of reference points for the word “slow.” With an aesthetic seemingly ready-made for fans of Internet..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Chalk

"...know when to stop. Chalk moves at an unnecessarily slow and deliberate pace and goes on for way too..."

July 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Confess

"...the Church. Clift's performance is moody, the kind of slow, psychological approach rarely witnessed in Hitchcock's films. It is..."

July 15, 1999 Movie Review

Endurance

"...intertitles. Children, however, may be put off by the slow, graceful beauty of Endurance and its simple methodology. Yet..."

June 4, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Affliction

"...seemingly ineradicable male pathology of violence, retribution, and the slow death of the soul. The story is based on..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Taste of Cherry

"...calling it a humanistic treasure about life's big questions. Slow and monotonous, the film moves at a deliberate pace..."

Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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