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Movie Review | 'Fix': A Single, Frantic Day

Propelled by an eccentric cast of characters and increasingly seamy locations, “Fix” dashes headlong through Los Angeles with a little charm and a lot of verve. Unfolding over a single, frantic day, the plot follows the efforts of two filmmakers, ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Tao Ruspoli,  Olivia Wilde,  Shawn Andrews,  Nico

Movie Review | 'The Missing Person': Probing Psychological Wounds

Chief among the wounded is John Rosow (Michael Shannon), an alcoholic private investigator who has been hired by an unseen lawyer to tail a mysterious man (Frank Wood) on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Fueled by gin and peppered with oddball ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Margaret Colin,  John Ventimiglia,  Noah Buschel

Movie Review | 'The War on Kids': What Ails Public Schools? Better Ask, What Doesn’t?

A shocking chronicle of institutional dysfunction, “The War on Kids” likens our public school system to prison and its disciplinary methods to fascism. At least now you know why little Johnny won’t get out of bed in the morning. A student at Columbine ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  17 Nov 2009

Movie Review | 'Splinterheads': Casual Quest for Meaning, Aided by GPS

A cool hobby and a hot blonde guide an aimless young man to his bliss in “Splinterheads,” a shaggy comedy with more heart than heft. It’s summer in a nameless, featureless small town, and Justin (Thomas Middleditch) is bored. Unenthusiastic about the ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Rachael Taylor,  Lea Thompson,  Tom Cruise,  Christopher McDonald

Movie Review | 'Collapse': Single Focus: An Outsider With Doomsday Vision

“What movie did you see last night?” “It’s just one guy explaining why human civilization in its present form is doomed.” “Huh. But did you have a good time?” Well, that depends. Factor in variables like personal ideology, current-affairs savvy and ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Chris Smith,  Philip Glass,  Errol Morris,  Mark Borchardt (actor)

Movie Review | 'Act of God': Trying to Find Meaning in a Bolt From the Blue

Minus Mr. Auster’s pointed pragmatism, this insubstantial — if occasionally lovely — film would feel as random as its subject matter. His childhood recollections of a summer camp tragedy, when a close friend was killed during an “absolutely ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Fred Frith,  Dave Bidini

Movie Review | 'How to Seduce Difficult Women': Attmepting to Improve Romantic Losers

The experience of watching “How to Seduce Difficult Women” is best exemplified by its opening sequence, in which the English-challenged Mo (Jonathan Hova) harasses random women on a New York City street. Inept, immature and terminally irritating, Mo ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Grace Kelly,  Rachel Roberts

Movie Review | 'The Wedding Song': Bodies in Motion

“The Wedding Song,” a seductively fluid and tactile drama from the writer and director Karin Albou, explores love and identity through the prism of the female body and the rights of its owner. Expanding on themes unpacked in her 2005 film, “La Petite ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Movie Review | 'Stan Helsing': Looking Low and Seeing Ghosts

“Does my vagina make me look fat?” asks Mia (Desi Lydic), a lubricious massage therapist and erstwhile exotic dancer. Mia’s body image and increasingly abbreviated outfits are only throwaway gags in the rank universe of “Stan Helsing,” but they nail ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Lon Chaney, Jr.,  Kenan Thompson,  Pussycat Dolls,  Leslie Nielsen

Movie Review | 'Night and Day': Wandering in Paris, Woman to Woman

Park Eun-hye, left, and Kim Young-ho in “Night and Day,” directed by Hong Sang-soo. Continuing his unflagging obsession with men behaving badly, the South Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in “Night and ...

From JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, The New York Times,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hong Sang-soo

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