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B+
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55%
|
The Conspirator (2011) |
"
Cinematographer Newton Thomas Sigel paints a world lit by candles, gaslights and torches, and costume designer Louise Frogley makes the cast look like people of the period, not actors wearing rented clothes."
—
Austin American-Statesman
Posted Apr 20, 2011
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B+
|
83%
|
Bukowski: Born into This (2003) |
"
An amazing, worthy journey."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 28, 2004
|
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B-
|
61%
|
The Last Shot (2004) |
"
The Last Shot doesn't crackle and pop, but the send-up of Hollywood and the government gets off some good lines and generally endears itself with a kind of earnest scattershot loopiness."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 14, 2004
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|
B+
|
81%
|
Friday Night Lights (2004) |
"
A hard-hitting, fast-paced, stirring film."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 7, 2004
|
|
C+
|
15%
|
Raise Your Voice (2004) |
"
It's a sweet and touching West Coast Fame, though it lacks that 1980 musical's manic energy and excitement."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 7, 2004
|
|
B
|
90%
|
Going Upriver - The Long War of John Kerry (2004) |
"
A partisan film but ultimately a powerful one."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 6, 2004
|
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A-
|
84%
|
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004) |
"
Credit Mr. Salles with making all the right artistic decisions and turning what could have been a routine polemical film into a fresh mind-changing experience. "
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 30, 2004
|
|
C+
|
48%
|
Silver City (2004) |
"
If Silver City isn't in the same class as [Sayles'] Texas-shot Lone Star, it's still worth a look."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 16, 2004
|
|
C+
|
69%
|
Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi (2004) |
"
A slight but winsome, affirmative film."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 9, 2004
|
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B-
|
74%
|
The Hunting of the President (2004) |
"
There's wit, revelation and mercifully, more about Whitewater than Monica Lewinsky."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 2, 2004
|
|
B+
|
93%
|
Riding Giants (2004) |
"
It's a big wet kiss to the heroes and history of an ancient water sport."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 5, 2004
|
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B
|
48%
|
A Home at the End of the World (2004) |
"
The best reasons [to see it] have to be the subtle, nuanced performances of Mr. Farrell, newcomer Dallas Roberts, a never-better Robin Wright Penn and the endearing evergreen Pride of Quitman, Texas, Sissy Spacek."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 29, 2004
|
|
B+
|
95%
|
Before Sunset (2004) |
"
If you didn't like Before Sunrise, filmmaker Richard Linklater says, you'll hate Before Sunset. But if you treasured the original, you're sure to prize the 'romance for realists' sequel."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 8, 2004
|
|
A-
|
94%
|
The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004) |
"
A window on a changing world most of us will never see."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 3, 2004
|
|
B-
|
50%
|
America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
"
A visual treat with the sweep and canvas of an IMAX film, the movie, all shot before Sept. 11, 2001, explodes like a chrysanthemum fireworks shell with red, white and blue stars."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 1, 2004
|
|
D
|
0%
|
Singing Forest (2003) |
"
One has to feel for actors faced with clunky, obvious lines."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 17, 2004
|
|
B+
|
74%
|
Les égarés (Strayed) (2003) |
"
A fascinating mystery -- a halcyon idyll with a gnawing sense of terror at the edge."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 17, 2004
|
|
C-
|
31%
|
Mil Nubes de Paz Cercan el Cielo, Amor, Jamás Acabarás de ser Amor (A Thousand Clouds of Peace) (2004) |
"
Mr. Hernández's attempt to put an interior landscape on film a la Pasolini may seem stultifying and pretentious, but it's also a brave dark experiment."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 17, 2004
|
|
C
|
31%
|
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) |
"
Plays like a Three Stooges travelogue."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 15, 2004
|
|
B
|
94%
|
The Agronomist (2004) |
"
A lively, illuminating homage to an extraordinary man of courage, whose cry for his beloved country got him killed."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 10, 2004
|
|
B+
|
96%
|
Control Room (2004) |
"
It's an intriguing, entertaining glimpse at the inner workings of the most-watched television channel in the world."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 10, 2004
|
|
B
|
89%
|
National Geographic: Forces of Nature (2004) |
"
With the spectacular opening of Forces of Nature, narrated by Kevin Bacon, IMAX outdoes Hollywood's fanciest effects wizards."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jun 4, 2004
|
|
A-
|
69%
|
Carandiru (2004) |
"
An urgent piece of cinema -- a shiv in the ribs and right cross to the chin -- that's also a salutation to human solidarity and the will to live."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted May 27, 2004
|
|
B-
|
64%
|
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) |
"
It has the sad, goofy charm of a silent comedy with Buster Keaton, a Jarmusch favorite, with passive-aggressive hits and flashes of barely contained antagonism."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted May 27, 2004
|
|
B-
|
61%
|
Valentin (2004) |
"
Seen as the wishful coming-of-age of a writer, who escapes tribulation through imagination, the semi-autobiographical movie seems less sentimental and makes a lot more sense."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted May 20, 2004
|
|
B+
|
93%
|
Super Size Me (2004) |
"
What makes all this work is that the charming Mr. Spurlock, unlike combative Michael Moore, is winning, witty and completely at ease before the camera."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted May 13, 2004
|
|
B+
|
87%
|
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2004) |
"
What gives this its weight and substance is that Mr. Hickenlooper came to see himself in the man whom Nancy Sinatra calls 'Peter Pan in the school of hard knocks.'"
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Apr 29, 2004
|
|
C+
|
63%
|
Two Men Went to War (2004) |
"
The mission, which the soldiers codenamed Operation Mad Dog, would have been delicious as a documentary, but director John Henderson goes for an antic Two Stooges Abroad approach."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Apr 8, 2004
|
|
B+
|
96%
|
Osama (2004) |
"
A poignant film with stinging images."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Mar 11, 2004
|
|
A
|
93%
|
My Architect: A Son's Journey (2004) |
"
Irresistible and haunting."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Feb 12, 2004
|
|
A
|
98%
|
The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) |
"
[Morris] gave him a stage -- and Mr. McNamara took it -- to chart the tragedy of Vietnam and prove that war is too complex, too dangerous for fallible human beings in power to know what they're doing."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Feb 5, 2004
|
|
C
|
25%
|
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"
Superlative wasted cast and chamber pot-embarrassing humor."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 15, 2004
|
|
B+
|
98%
|
Chavez: Inside the Coup (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) (2003) |
"
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised may be controversial, biased and patchy, but it contains some of the most electrifying and immediate nonfiction footage seen on the big screen."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jan 15, 2004
|
|
B
|
73%
|
Taking Sides (2003) |
"
The talk in this moral debate smokes with provocative drama and actors of weight."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Dec 4, 2003
|
|
B+
|
72%
|
Bonhoeffer (2003) |
"
There is more to the philosophy and faith of Dietrich Bonhoeffer than a 90-minute documentary can begin to cover, but this is a powerful and timely introduction."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Nov 28, 2003
|
|
B+
|
86%
|
Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion (2003) |
"
It's a rare glimpse of China's 'final solution' for a courageous people whose world view is one of forgiveness, nonviolence and love."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Nov 25, 2003
|
|
A-
|
85%
|
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"
Mr. Weir will possibly get his fifth nomination for Oscar gold, but everybody -- from costume designer Wendy Stites to Australians Iva Davies, Richard Tognetti and Christopher Gordon, who composed the classic-pop score -- deserves three cheers."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Nov 13, 2003
|
|
B
|
97%
|
Autumn Spring (2003) |
"
A bittersweet charmer."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Nov 13, 2003
|
|
B-
|
65%
|
The Flower of Evil (2003) |
"
This three-generation melodrama, set in the Bordeaux region, may be just an elegant shadow of 'the gallic Hitchcock,' but even pale and dry, it's still Chabrol and sippable."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Nov 6, 2003
|
|
C+
|
40%
|
Bollywood Hollywood (2003) |
"
Though neither big nor slick, it's a joyful, feel-good spoof that makes you want to run out and rent a real Bollywood musical."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 9, 2003
|
|
B+
|
92%
|
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyű) (2001) |
"
Anime has never been my cup of oolong. Or it wasn't until Satoshi Kon's bold, time-traveling sophomore feature, Millennium Actress."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Oct 2, 2003
|
|
C+
|
61%
|
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
"
A predictable lightweight comedy-drama that believes in second chances, risk-taking and loving a house."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 25, 2003
|
|
B-
|
68%
|
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"
Maverick Robert Rodriguez gets back to his old R-rated tricks, but this time he's more mature, stylish and bloody inventive."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Sep 11, 2003
|
|
B+
|
82%
|
Step Into Liquid (2003) |
"
The spectacular photography, smart editing and pounding score is so hypnotic, it's a shock to come out of the theater and step onto concrete."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 28, 2003
|
|
B
|
90%
|
The Magdalene Sisters (2003) |
"
An intense expose with bits of acrid humor."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 15, 2003
|
|
D+
|
25%
|
Masked And Anonymous (2003) |
"
If Seinfeld is the late sitcom about nothing, M&A is the feature about something. It's just that some of us out here in the hinterland can't figure out what it is."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 15, 2003
|
|
B+
|
80%
|
Mondays in the Sun (Los Lunes al sol) (2003) |
"
Alive with humanity and wit."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Aug 15, 2003
|
|
B-
|
79%
|
Washington Heights (2002) |
"
A promising debut that makes us anticipate this Columbia University film grad's sophomore work."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
|
B+
|
94%
|
Dirty Pretty Things (2003) |
"
[Frears'] finest, most polished, provocative work in a decade."
—
Dallas Morning News
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
79%
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