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Darna Zaroori Hai
Unusual Bollywood film is an anthology horror film with segments directed by seven different directors.
"...and, like its predecessor, it's another series of six minor supernatural and suspense shorts with a wraparound story involving..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

ATL
Wicked smart examination of black kids in modern Atlanta features talented young actors navigating the circuitous path to adulthood while spending their downtime at the local roller rink.
"...goes to writer Chism, who imbues even the most minor supporting players with far more nuanced characterizations than you..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

First Descent
This vertiginous documentary about snowboarding talks with the sport's greats and shows them in action, rocketing down crag-encrusted, virgin slopes like buckshot fired from God’s own 20-gauge.
"...Rollins and music from the likes of Black Flag, Minor Threat, and Face to Face, there’s much made about..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Red Eye
Red Eye’s no classic, but with its smart, twisty little script and those two killer performances, it's a helluva lot of fun.
"...for breath in its 85-minute running time. It’s a minor triumph in Craven’s up-and-down career. With its workmanlike plotting..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Edukators
Sticking it to the man, German-style, is the subject of this smart, kicky little gem.
"...serious post-screening cafe conversations, vis-à-vis youth’s obligation to foment minor acts of creative anarchy within the rigidly overstructured and..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

High Tension
A gripping piece of splatterpunk, despite the fact that there's not much to it and the plot crumbles in the third act.
"...or perhaps because of it, Aja's film is a minor masterpiece of cutting, edited within an inch of its..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Travellers & Magicians
Travellers & Magicians feels a bit like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as retold by Siddhartha, as this Himalayan beauty gently delivers a very accurate anti-materialistic Buddhist morality lesson.
"...the traditions of the past. Dendup plays Dondup, a minor governmental official recently assigned to a remote Bhutanese backwater..."

March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gunner Palace
Uday Hussein's former pleasure palace is now home to an American artillery regiment, whose members we get to know from their poolside antics to their far more sobering responsibilities of patrolling Baghdad.
"...document has one point to make, it is that "minor combat" is an oxymoron. Gunner Palace succeeds as a..."

March 18, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Closer
Love’s fractured fairy tale, writ small and petty and almost too real to bear without flinching.
"...have a thing for Dan). Recriminations and duplicities, both minor and major, pepper the script like saltpeter buckshot, and..."

Dec. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

After the Sunset
Possibly the ideal film to more or less ignore while lounging poolside and sipping Jamaican rum, After the Sunset is 100-proof pap.
"...Link), is high-grade hokum, a cookie-cutter mishmash of Brosnan’s minor-league Cary Grantisms and plenty of shots of Hayek’s bosom..."

Nov. 12, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Without a Paddle
This yuck-fest gets its jokes from men's fear of homosexuality and impotence.
"...for warmth. The inclusion of Burt Reynolds in a minor but key character role also underscores this movie’s wishful..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Butterfly Effect
Ashton Kutcher lays to waste a promising script involving time travel and unforeseeable consequences.
"...The Butterfly Effect could very well have been a minor classic. The only thing holding it back is its..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Owning Mahowny
"...structure the filmmakers apply to the story seems a minor attraction in this low-key affair. But that’s exactly the..."

June 20, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Mighty Wind
Christopher Guest and his recurring cast of players give Sixties-era folk music a gentle poke in the ribs.
"...decades-old Saturday Night Live skit; it just feels more minor, less memorable than the earlier films. Just the same,..."

May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Bulletproof Monk
"...and an Anglophonic crime lord named Mr. Funktastic are minor players. Hong Kong’s answer to Cary Grant, Chow Yun-Fat,..."

April 18, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Colombani's debut features a finely nuanced and altogether striking performance by Tautou, whose wide eyes adroitly reflect an inner world that ricochets from hopelessly in love to simply hopeless.
"...Austin debut missed V-Day by a month is a minor quibble, though – this delightfully deranged love story should..."

March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
"...Charlie Kaufman (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) revolves around the minor-league, legend-in-his-own-mind television provocateur Chuck Barris. As those of you..."

Jan. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Barbershop
"...thoughtful performance. The script, by Mark Brown, is a minor conversational gem; very few of the lines ring false,..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Shot at Glory
"...movie transplanted to the Scottish Highlands -- the underdog minor leaguers from the tiny burg of Kilnockie rise through..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

Rollerball
"...Eastern Bloc among faceless sponsors and a who-cares, strictly minor-league backstory. Here, the fall of Communism breeds not democracy,..."

Feb. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pootie Tang
This is a nutty story about the life of the fictional ghetto hero Pootie Tang, whose struggles against corporate America after selling out become the stuff of legend.
"...Rock is actually derived from one of the comedian's minor Chris Rock Show skits, which features a Shaft-like superhero..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ugly Kid
"...is disarmingly on-target and rife with the kind of minor terrors most adults are prone to forget once out..."

June 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Knight's Tale
This warped medieval yarn about a peasant who passes himself off as a knight glides by on a funny, friendly, goofy sort of goodness.
"...hint that a subplot was cut in the editing). Minor grievances aside, this warped medieval yarn glides by on..."

May 11, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Snatch
Ritchie's second feature is part broad comic farce and part grisly charnel house humor.
"...Runner cartoon, and for that reason alone it's a minor masterpiece. Never have so many characters done so much..."

Jan. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sound and Fury
"...of sound. But, grousing aside, these snags are only minor distractions from an absorbing human drama. Whether you see..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Ladies Man
"...“get it on, babee.” Based on the popular, if minor, Saturday Night Live sketch of the same name, and..."

Oct. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Adrenaline Drive
"...Suzuki runs afoul of a yakuza boss in a minor traffic accident. Taken back to the criminal's hideout to..."

July 7, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Beyond the Clouds
"...than evocative of life's mysteries. Yet such missteps are minor complaints in the presence of this bold Italian explorer,..."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gun Shy
"...in town to arrange a money-laundering operation between local minor mob boss Fulvio Nesstra (Platt) and a pair of..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where the Money is
"...with barely contained merriment. He makes remarkable the most minor throwaway scenes, and even the edgy, estrogen-fueled bombast of..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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