In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege
By Bill Gallo,
May 12, 2005
Whatever you do, don't accuse Ridley Scott of turning his back on a fight. Doesn't matter if it's slimy-fanged space aliens attacking Sigourney... More>>
If you're expecting a psychological thriller out of Mindhunters, and you buy a ticket for the movie, you will indubitably feel cheated. But break... More>>
In Paul Haggis's Los Angeles, good and evil Crash into one another
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 05, 2005
Much of Crash, an LA-stories portmanteau about the suffocating embrace of racism, is hard to watch, harder still to listen to. Its characters --... More>>
Todd Solondz has been a lot of things, but never preachy or dull -- till now
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 05, 2005
It is no great joy to review Palindromes, the latest film from writer-director Todd Solondz, who is loved by those who do not loathe him for such... More>>
Nobody Knows painstakingly reveals the horror of child neglect
By Jean Oppenheimer,
April 28, 2005
Don't let the PG-13 rating fool you. Though it's acted almost completely by children, Nobody Knows is not a film for children. A poignant, deeply... More>>
Here's a mystery for Mulder: What's happened to Duchovny's career?
By Bill Gallo,
April 28, 2005
Agent Fox Mulder, the coolly instinctual sleuth of The X-Files, got pretty good at unraveling paranormal mysteries. If only the actor who played... More>>
Back for a seventh year, the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival kicks off an early hot summer with ten days of movies, parties, and pride. Indies... More>>
It is both quite a coup and a kooky touch to have landed Bea Arthur as the gala diva of ceremonies of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The... More>>
Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle breaks all the rules
By Luke Y. Thompson,
April 21, 2005
"No more soccer!" declares small-time thug Sing (writer-director-star Stephen Chow) as he vigorously stomps on a child's ball. In the context of... More>>
Film festival projects works from around the world
By OCTAVIO ROCA,
April 14, 2005
Latin in the truest and broadest sense of that beauteous word, the Miami Latin Film Festival brings us movies not only from Colombia, Ecuador,... More>>
The daughter of a hippie recluse grows to see the world her own way
By Bill Gallo,
April 14, 2005
When the great playwright Arthur Miller died in February, many admirers took stock again of his most enduring creation, Willy Loman. A delusional... More>>
An inventive documentary enters the imagination of a reclusive outsider artist
By Melissa Levine,
April 07, 2005
What if a man has no friends? What if he speaks only when spoken to, and then only of the weather? What if every day of the week he attends mass,... More>>
Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it
By Robert Wilonsky,
April 07, 2005
Sahara is a stunning piece of work -- stunningly inept, stunningly incoherent, stunningly awful in every single way imaginable. How this didn't... More>>
What's black and white and red all over? Sin City, pal
By Robert Wilonsky,
March 31, 2005
If nothing else, Robert Rodriguez's Sin City, co-directed with Frank Miller (and Quentin Tarantino, for a few seconds), will be remembered as the... More>>
Beauty Shop is clipped straight from its predecessors.
By Robert Wilonsky,
March 31, 2005
A spin-off of a sequel, Beauty Shop plays like most Hollywood comedies these days -- as tepid sitcom, benign product, and cynical afterthought.... More>>