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Before the Fall
Every movie about the Holocaust should be this good, but few are. Heartbreaking and brutal, its tale of two boys training together at an elite school is as intimate and truthful to its characters as it is powerfully topical and politically brave.
"...notions as the unraveling of compassion and the corruptive nature of nationalism, it is at the same time a..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Permaculture
Local activists try to break free of oil-dependent lifestyle
"...– who was frustrated first by the degradation of nature, and then a second time by feeling helpless to..."

Jan. 20, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

All That I Need
Movies this bad don’t often get released anymore, a circumstance that instantly raises the curiosity factor of All That I Need.
"...considering its technical weaknesses and gross cynicism toward human nature. The story is about a pyramid scheme that goes..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Three ... Extremes
This lush and horrific anthology film from three of the finest craftsmen working today – Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, and Takashi Miike – is an instantly memorable and squirm-inducing assemblage.
"...freakish tone in an ageless meditation on the corruptive nature of both personal and social vanity. A professionally fading..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A History of Violence
Cronenberg's new horror film implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what do we acquire from our environment?
"...History of Violence implicitly tackles the old question of nature vs. nurture: What are we born with and what..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

9 Songs
Michael Winterbottom creates scenester porn in which he records the evolution of a man and a woman's relationship through sex and music – exclusively.
"...anything meaningful about our relationships, about memory, about the nature of desire. There is room in the world for..."

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

March of the Penguins
The nature photography is so intimate, and the story of the penguins' mating is so carefully crafted into a sustained and satisfying narrative, that they become epic heroes: brave, if not fearless, and stalwart fools for love.
"...penguins are not the biological curios of your everyday nature movie. The photography is so intimate, and the story..."

July 15, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Crash
The paths of a seemingly unconnected, multicultural group of Los Angelenos cross in the most compelling American movie to come around in a long while.
"...is rooted in the script’s theme about the complex nature of human beings. Normal social intercourse, for many of..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Oscar winner documents the collapse of Enron in vivid detail and with cinematic flourish.
"...biases, the movie helps the average American understand the nature of the shell games perpetuated by Enron and how..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Schultze Gets the Blues
The life of a retired German miner and accordion player is spurred toward change by the sound of zydeco music.
"...movie in long, slow takes that accentuate the plodding nature of his life. Schultze is neither happy nor unhappy:..."

March 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Code 46
Cyberpunk meets renegade romance, à la Orwell.
"...merging as it does themes of the encroaching disassociative nature of globalism, renegade romance that recalls nothing so much..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Two Brothers
Two tiger cubs separated during infancy are cast to the winds of fate in French-occupied Indochina.
"...Sangha suffer enough slings and arrows to make Annaud’s nature epic The Bear look like Andy Warhol’s Sleep. They..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Return
A long-absent father returns to his family in this prize-winning Russian drama, and for his two young sons the unexplained reason for his return is as mysterious as his absence.
"...of ur-dad – a thickly muscled, Golem-like force of nature. He announces he's taking the boys on a fishing..."

June 18, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Day After Tomorrow
A new Ice Age cometh
"...of the poles and raise sea levels precipitously. Cue nature’s wrath at the United States’ shortsighted pummeling of the..."

May 28, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Profile of L.A. radio deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, perpetual handmaiden to rock & roll royalty.
"...his odd little (5-foot-3-inch) subject to explore the changing nature of fame in America, touching all the while on..."

April 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Love is never having to say "I erased you."
"...and it’s a tremendous improvement over their earlier Human Nature. This time, all the pieces jell and sustain the..."

March 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Along Came Polly
Ben Stiller and Jennifer Aniston date and become more than just friends.
"...whirlwind relationship with Reuben that’s notable for its tentative nature. While he struggles to impress her by eating in..."

Jan. 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rugrats Go Wild
"...wander off to explore and the Thornberrys shoot a nature documentary. The conceits at work – The Thornberrys are..."

June 13, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Irréversible
"...is clearly trying to tell us something about the nature of humanity, about how we are all animals in..."

March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Wild Thornberrys Movie
"...the titular family: dad Nigel (Curry), a veddy British nature documentarian; Yank mom Marianne (Carlisle), his cinematographer; irritable teen..."

Dec. 20, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Das Experiment
"...satisfying, Das Experiment doesn't tell you anything about human nature you probably haven't already suspected, but then again it's..."

Dec. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mostly Martha
"...performance from Gedeck and Castellitto belie the film's straightforward nature. This is a film about repression as much as..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Crop Circles: Quest for Truth
"...guise of scientific research. The fact that the dubious nature of many of the circles was revealed several years..."

Sept. 6, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

CQ
"...the screen. Coppola's big questions -- what is the nature of high and low art, and how can you..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cherish
"...the Fishes) is trying to say something about the nature of stalking -- one man's cute crush is another..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Visitor Q
"...subversive take on the modern Japanese family, the intrusive nature of the media, and social dynamics of all stripes...."

May 24, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

No Man's Land
This bleak antiwar comedy won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2001.
"...Bosnian conflict is a grim reminder of the base nature of warfare which cunningly reduces the whole of the..."

March 22, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ice Age
Prehistoric buddy cartoon.
"...ideas about living in harmony in the midst of nature's unavoidably antagonistic food chain. (Carnivore parents may cringe when..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

La Buche
"...never quite jells is due more to the roundabout nature of the script than the players, all of whom..."

Dec. 21, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Behind Enemy Lines
"...David Veloz and Zak Penn have, however, simplified the nature of the Balkans conflict to Lt. Burnett's initial statement,..."

Nov. 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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