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Mars Attacks
This rock doc puts Stardust in your eyes
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: September 12, 2002
While it's no longer the revolutionary tranifesto it may have been, D.A. Pennebaker's 1973 concert film (first released in 1983) captures David Bowie's meticulous identity...
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Three-hour Tour
Les Destinées doesn't grow boring, but leaves its viewers feeling
By Andy Klein
Published: September 12, 2002
In turn-of-the-century France, a minister (Charles Berling) scandalizes his tiny Protestant community by divorcing his wife (Isabelle Huppert) and falling in love with a newly...
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Oh, Cho!
This Notorious concert film is the one that you want
By David Ehrenstein
Published: September 12, 2002
Taking up more or less from where her last concert film I'm the One That I Want (2000) left off, Margaret Cho continues her exploration of the outer limits of raunch with...
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Destiny Calls
Sex and Lucia proves both convoluted and sentimental
By Andy Klein
Published: August 8, 2002
Hearing that her writer boyfriend (Tristán Ulloa) has been killed in an accident, a Madrid waitress (Paz Vega) named Lucia takes off for an island that figures more...
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Girl on Girl
Me Without You is a cursory look at the complexities of female friendship
By Jean Oppenheimer
Published: August 8, 2002
Friendship is almost as complicated and compelling as love. It's romance without the sex, whether between members of the same or opposite genders. Marina (Anna Friel)--pretty,...
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Portrait of a Serial Killer
The makers of Dahmer try their best to avoid sensationalism
By Andy Klein
Published: August 8, 2002
A story of a somewhat troubled young man, who, heavily closeted and socially awkward, took to picking up younger males, drugging them, killing them, then fucking the corpses,...
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Promise?
Eric Shaeffer improves modestly with Never Again by leaving himself out of it
By Andy Klein
Published: August 8, 2002
After endless failed relationships, a middle-aged exterminator and jazz musician (Jeffrey Tambor) begins to think that maybe he's gay. On his first attempt to pick someone up...
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Rockin' On
Country Bears too weird to pass up
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: July 25, 2002
A film that posits a world in which giant fake-looking anthropomorphic bears walk among us without people noticing that they look any different from other humans, and a select...
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Promise?
Eric Shaeffer improves modestly with Never Again by leaving himself out of it
By Andy Klein
Published: July 25, 2002
After endless failed relationships, a middle-aged exterminator and jazz musician (Jeffrey Tambor) begins to think that maybe he's gay. On his very first attempt to pick someone...
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Moving Story
Pacing, lengthiness slow down Green Dragon
By Andy Klein
Published: July 25, 2002
During the last weeks before the fall of Saigon, tens of thousands of South Vietnamese, fearful of NVA recriminations, fled the country for the United States, where they were...
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The Madness of Genius
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky could make you crazy
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 27, 2002
Pretend Derek Jacobi is John Cleese, imagine it's all but a daft and cruel joke, and you will find Paul Cox's film tolerable; if you can't, you will find it unbearable. The...
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Saving the Neighborhood
Hey Arnold! The Movie is more like an extra-long TV episode
By Andy Klein
Published: June 27, 2002
An evil industrialist (voice of Paul Sorvino) intends to knock down the neighborhood in which Arnold (Spencer Klein), the kid with the football-shaped head, and his friends...
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Holden On To Nothing
This "homage" to Catcher in the Rye is phony, bland and condescending
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 27, 2002
Clearly, director Malcolm Clark and writer Sean Kanan (an actor by day, not a writer, and no friggin' duh) wanted to adapt J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, like...
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Reel Life
The unabashedly romantic Cinema Paradiso returns at its fattest and most fully realized
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: June 27, 2002
Naked emotion is a tricky thing to sell, especially in semiautobiographical films about confused mama's boys gradually learning that life exists beyond the control of their...
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Reel Life
The unabashedly romantic Cinema Paradiso returns at its fattest and most fully realized
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: June 20, 2002
Naked emotion is a tricky thing to sell, especially in semiautobiographical films about confused mama's boys gradually learning that life exists beyond the control of their...
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Sweet Time
This adaptation of The Cherry Orchard offers a timeless and unique perspective
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: June 20, 2002
This thoughtful and somewhat languid adaptation of Anton Chekhov's 1904 play finds its beauty in the heady performance of Charlotte Rampling as Lyubov, childlike matriarch of a...
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Troubled World
A fine cast superbly explores a complex Town
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: June 20, 2002
The challenge faced here by writer-director Robert Guédiguian (Charge!) is to keep his cheap melodrama from curdling his insightful societal appraisal. Michèle...
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All Shook Up
A little Hawaiian girl and her sister adopt a destructive mutant in Lilo & Stitch
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: June 20, 2002
Somewhere outside the Magic Kingdom, there are bored people. Blissfully unaware of the suits who design the multiplex fodder they'll be mentally munching, these people discover...
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Internal Despair
In The Believer, a Jewish student explores his inner Nazi
By Bill Gallo
Published: June 13, 2002
The swaggering neo-Nazi skinhead played here to scary effect by Ryan Gosling takes equal delight in punching out a frightened Talmudic scholar and justifying fascism with his...
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Torn By Tradition
Love and custom collide in Late Marriage
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 13, 2002
Sold as a romantic comedy about a 31-year-old grad student unable to find (or unwilling to choose) a bride, Dover Koshashvili's second feature is hardly madcap or even...
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