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Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA)

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
B+
Bright Leaves (2003) David Lee Simmons Ross McElwee once again ties together loose strands of subject, family, region and history.
Posted Aug 23, 2005  Edit critic review
B+
The Aristocrats (2005) David Lee Simmons The Aristocrats proves our hesitance to offend sometimes robs humor of its vitality.
Posted Aug 23, 2005  Edit critic review
A+
The Raven (1943) David Lee Simmons Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Corbeau (The Raven) is so utterly complex it still stirs debate today in France ... .
Posted Aug 16, 2005  Edit critic review
B-
Broken Flowers (2005) David Lee Simmons For as intriguing as Jim Jarmusch's latest film, Broken Flowers, might be, it nevertheless feels like something we've all seen too many times before.
Posted Aug 16, 2005  Edit critic review
C-
The Skeleton Key (2005) David Lee Simmons What's more mysterious is how Hollywood seems genetically incapable of separating Louisiana from the rest of the South, voodoo from hoodoo, joie de vivre from Hand Grenades.
Posted Aug 16, 2005  Edit critic review
B+
Rize (2005) David Lee Simmons If [David] LaChapelle can learn some of the more sophisticated filmmaking techniques (narrative arc, editing, breadth of story), he is one to watch. His film certainly is.
Posted Jul 01, 2005  Edit critic review
B+
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) David Lee Simmons ... Doug Liman's Mr. and Mrs. Smith ... tries to juggle the genres of romantic comedy and action-adventure with little atonal moments of dramatic wistfulness.
Posted Jul 01, 2005  Edit critic review
C+
Unleashed (2005) David Lee Simmons [N]o matter how hard [Louis] Letterier tries, he's working with atonal material here, and can't have it both ways.
Posted May 25, 2005  Edit critic review
A-
Moolaadé (2004) David Lee Simmons This is a movie surprisingly devoid of agitprop -- the film feels instructional without feeling didactic.
Posted May 25, 2005  Edit critic review
A
Kung Fu Hustle (2004) David Lee Simmons Kung Fu Hustle clearly wants to take this martial-arts trend into a new frontier, and it's heartwarming to see it done with such respect for the past.
Posted Apr 27, 2005  Edit critic review
B+
The Woodsman (2004) David Lee Simmons The Woodsman and its star, Kevin Bacon, are at their most effective in its creepiest moments.
Posted Jan 27, 2005  Edit critic review
A-
Hotel Rwanda (2004) David Lee Simmons The comparisons of Hotel Rwanda to Schindler's List are ... understandable ... yet Hotel Rwanda is almost everything that Schindler's List is not.
Posted Jan 16, 2005  Edit critic review
A-
A Very Long Engagement (2004) David Lee Simmons Working together, [Audrey] Tatou and [Jean-Pierre] Jeunet create a story of love and war told through the prism of a mystery ... .
Posted Jan 04, 2005  Edit critic review
B
Tarnation (2003) David Lee Simmons [I]t's a struggle to decide if Tarnation isn't so much a catharsis as it is pure narcissism. Maybe it's both: narcissism as catharsis.
Posted Dec 09, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Ray (2004) David Lee Simmons [Taylor Hackford's] passion for his subject matter and characters ... make him a better director than some might give him credit for being.
Posted Nov 19, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Sideways (2004) David Lee Simmons [Sideways is] the first film in recent memory that treats wine as a sweet metaphor for life ... .
Posted Nov 19, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Garden State (2004) David Lee Simmons [Zach] Braff knows the state of mind of both his character and his film and hints at a maturity we can't wait to see unfold.
Posted Aug 27, 2004  Edit critic review
C
The Village (2004) David Lee Simmons You want to know the biggest secret of all? M. Night Shyamalan is overrated. Shhhh! Don't tell anybody!
Posted Aug 04, 2004  Edit critic review
A-
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) David Lee Simmons [Director Jared Hess's] title hero, Napoleon Dynamite, has the name of a character that sounds equal parts blaxploitation and comic-book hero.
Posted Jul 16, 2004  Edit critic review
A+
Blazing Saddles (1974) David Lee Simmons The movie rides on the sight gags, the set pieces, the one-liners, and an amazing ensemble cast of Brooks regulars ... and TV and Hollywood veteran character actors ... .
Posted Jun 18, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Super Size Me (2004) David Lee Simmons With [Morgan] Spurlock's debut, which at times out-Michael Moores Michael Moore, we might just have ourselves an extra-value meal of filmmaking.
Posted Jun 03, 2004  Edit critic review
C-
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) David Lee Simmons Where are the shoot-outs? Where are the one-liners? Heck, where's the stripper?
Posted Jun 03, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Eyes Without a Face (1960) David Lee Simmons [Eyes Without a Face] is horror done in subtle, sublime and poetic tones - yet another example that they don't make 'em like they used to.
Posted Apr 28, 2004  Edit critic review
B+
Elephant (2003) David Lee Simmons Elephant - however enigmatic, however cool its emotions - feels all too real in showing that something so abnormal can spring from something so normal.
Posted Apr 28, 2004  Edit critic review
A+
Trouble in Paradise (1932) David Lee Simmons Bathed in shimmering black-and-white, the Art Deco scenery of Trouble in Paradise is almost as sexy as the dialogue.
Posted Apr 28, 2004  Edit critic review
B
Lilya 4-Ever (2002) David Lee Simmons [T]here remains a question of focus in Moodysson's story ... .
Posted Feb 03, 2004  Edit critic review
C+
The Big Bounce (2004) David Lee Simmons The Big Bounce ... has all the ideas of a Leonard adaptation but none of its snap ... .
Posted Feb 03, 2004  Edit critic review
B
House of Sand and Fog (2003) David Lee Simmons Maybe House of Sand and Fog just needed more sand.
Posted Feb 03, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
Bad Santa (2003) David Lee Simmons This anti-holiday film is so crude one wonders if the film's producers, Ethan and Joel Coen, had actually recruited ... Peter and Bobby Farrelly ... to direct this film ... .
Posted Jan 09, 2004  Edit critic review
B-
Something's Gotta Give (2003) David Lee Simmons As it is, Something's Gotta Give has little to give, beyond some Dr. Phil pronouncements about relationships and a few moments of slapstick fun ... .
Posted Jan 09, 2004  Edit critic review
B
Cold Mountain (2003) David Lee Simmons Cold Mountain is as tailored a film for Oscar consideration as you will find this Academy Award, er, holiday season.
Posted Jan 09, 2004  Edit critic review
B
Runaway Jury (2003) David Lee Simmons Runaway Jury could have been a little more devilish, like the city that hosted it, but at least it was fun to look at.
Posted Nov 07, 2003  Edit critic review
A-
The Weather Underground (2003) David Lee Simmons Filmmakers Sam Green and Bill Siegel provide a fascinating account of the group and its times with their documentary.
Posted Oct 11, 2003  Edit critic review
A-
Russian Ark (2002) David Lee Simmons Russian Ark is a magical history tour, and not just a triumph of production and cinematic technique.
Posted Oct 11, 2003  Edit critic review
A-
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) David Lee Simmons Capturing the Friedmans provides layers that rarely are seen in traditional documentaries.
Posted Oct 11, 2003  Edit critic review
B+
American Splendor (2003) David Lee Simmons Funny, yes. Cutting edge? Hardly.
Posted Oct 03, 2003  Edit critic review
A-
Lost in Translation (2003) David Lee Simmons Sofia Coppola's film might be Lost in Translation, but she is surely finding her own language.
Posted Oct 03, 2003  Edit critic review
B
Hulk (2003) David Lee Simmons The Hulk is a comic-book movie with a heart and a brain.
Posted Jun 27, 2003  Edit critic review
B-
The Italian Job (2003) David Lee Simmons Just sit back behind the wheel, and zip around L.A. as this not-so-cool-and-the-gang tries to outwit its witless enemy ... .
Posted Jun 10, 2003  Edit critic review
B-
Down With Love (2003) David Lee Simmons [Down With Love is] Postmodernism Lite, and we deserve at least a little more than that, no?
Posted Jun 04, 2003  Edit critic review
B-
Gerry (2002) David Lee Simmons In many ways, Gerry is a truly arresting work, a rebellion against the image explosion in the post-MTV world of filmmaking.
Posted Jun 04, 2003  Edit critic review
B-
Love Liza (2002) David Lee Simmons [Todd] Louiso deserves credit for taking a different take on grief and loss here, gamely avoiding Big Scenes and buckets of tears, but sometimes it feels like the film's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness.
Posted May 17, 2003  Edit critic review
B+
The Good Thief (2002) David Lee Simmons If you didn't know any better, you'd think you'd stumbled into a municipal version of Rick's American Cafe.
Posted May 17, 2003  Edit critic review
A+
Pépé le moko (1937) David Lee Simmons Julien Duvivier's 1937 classic Pepe le Moko influenced everything from the American version ... it spawned just one year later ... to Casablanca, film noir, the French New Wave and even ... that amorous cartoon skunk, Pepe le Pew.
Posted Mar 18, 2003  Edit critic review
A-
The Cockettes (2002) David Lee Simmons '[The Cockettes] provides a window into a subculture hell-bent on expressing itself in every way imaginable.'
Posted Mar 07, 2003  Edit critic review
3/5
High Art (1998) David Lee Simmons Despite some clumsy stabs at, well, High Art, this film is at its best in exploring the complexities of mixing love, ambition and curiosity. Radha Mitchell's acting is a mixed bag; she spends half the film looking like a deer caught in the headlights -- b
Posted Feb 16, 2003  Edit critic review
A+
Beauty and the Beast (1946) David Lee Simmons [Jean Cocteau's] Beauty [and the Beast] is a testament to beauty in all forms, a gilded lesson in love that shows that miracles can happen after all.
Posted Feb 16, 2003  Edit critic review
B+
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) David Lee Simmons Is truth stranger than fiction? In [screenwriter] Charlie Kaufman's world, truth and fiction are equally strange, and his for the taking.
Posted Feb 07, 2003  Edit critic review
A+
Metropolis (1927) David Lee Simmons ... [T]he additional footage and digital technology has brought clarity and context to [Fritz] Lang's cutting commentary on the Industrial Age and class polarization ... .
Posted Dec 24, 2002  Edit critic review
B+
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000) David Lee Simmons Nabil Ayouch's Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets presents a world of little big people, kids who are going nowhere fast.
Posted Dec 17, 2002  Edit critic review
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