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Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Secret Things
Violent French erotica about female empowerment is a turbocharged gender bender that's equal parts soft-core porn and overwrought symbolism.
"...Fabrice Deville and Blandine Bury. Sex is power is violence is ludicrous in this French import that – finally!..."
April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2004
The boys are back for their annual ’toon fest, highlighting the best of the rude and lewd.
"...new crop of ’toons hits all the usual sex, violence, and body-humor notes. Familiar cartoons, such as Shane Acker’s..."
Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
King of the Ants
Nifty new thriller from Stuart Gordon, the director of Re-Animator.
"...Ants is the naturalism with which all this gruesome violence is portrayed. The hit is performed with a sloppy..."
Dec. 12, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Versus
"...gone to heaven, so breathtaking are the movie’s nonstop violence and hemorrhaging bodies. There is very little plot or..."
July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Irréversible
"...emptor: It contains two scenes of prolonged and graphic violence – one, in the opening moments of the movie,..."
March 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Katakuris is something of a departure for Miike, seeing as how it's chock-full of robust romance and – we kid you not – musical numbers. While this is ultimately a crazy meditation on family values and the like, it's still mind-bogglingly goofy filmmaking, at once deeply moving and deeply annoying.
"...smack upside the head with the psycho stick. Psychotic violence, twisted love, and genuinely creepy characters are par for..."
Nov. 29, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
8 Mile
Eminen's semi-autobiographical story of a young, white rapper on the rise in Detroit has a soft-focus Hollywood tint.
"...with millennial hoodlums, and the rapper's much-noted penchant for violence and drugs is almost completely eliminated from the character..."
Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Bowling for Columbine
"...and a keen eye for the absurd. Here, gun violence in America is the subject matter Moore sets in..."
Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Punch-Drunk Love
Sandler plays a socially inept, outwardly calm warehouse worker who harbors a maelstrom of rage.
"...to inexplicable crying jags and bouts of sudden, explosive violence (his repair bills for all the holes in his..."
Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Believer
"...professed enemy. But no matter how many acts of violence he commits against Jews or how many words of..."
July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Panic Room
"...the same smarts, the same visual panache, the same violence. But not the same heart. Sure, the heart of..."
March 29, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
All About the Benjamins
"...The unnecessary nastiness, even sadism, of much of the violence also bears mentioning if you're expecting more of the..."
March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Burnt Money
"...and that fuzzy and bloodied borderline between sex and violence is what gives the film its undeniable frisson. Like..."
Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Monster's Ball
"...is it possible to escape the legacies of racism, violence, and poverty? Psychologically, the odds are against them. Yet..."
Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Brotherhood of the Wolf
"...an overlong running time and a punishing amount of violence and gore, it's a deeply ambitious picture, one of..."
Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Animated Japanese sequel about the legendary bounty hunter.
"...by a heady mix of action, romance, and outright violence. All this and vampires, too! With its exuberant disregard..."
Nov. 30, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Asoka
"...by the effect of these actions, the emperor renounced violence and war and became a Buddhist for the rest..."
Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Our Lady of the Assassins
"...with constant drive-by shootings, endlessly fatal vendettas, and senseless violence and mayhem lurking behind every street corner. Fernando is..."
Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Brother
"...Japanese yakuza epic, it has plenty of Kitano's trademark hyperviolence but little of the contemplative mood of such previous..."
Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Pokémon 3: The Movie
"...this new offering, like the show itself, has minimal violence -- it's all so over the top (and so..."
April 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
3000 Miles to Graceland
"...film is riddled with a sort of vicious, mean-spirited hyper-violence that tanks the works from the get-go, and the..."
Feb. 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Lies
"...Lies. It's a film so filled with sex and violence that many critics have derided it as nothing short..."
Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Beyond the Mat
"...increase our respect for the vicious authenticity of the violence on display. Winners and losers may be preordained, but..."
March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2000
"...years, become something of a cause célèbre amongst the sex-and-violence set, racking up some impressive numbers for what is..."
Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
"...the range of the vocally neutral. Besson loves his violence almost as much as he loves his leading lady,..."
Nov. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
A Clockwork Orange
"...a visible part of the ongoing public debate about violence and the movies...."
Nov. 4, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Body Shots
"...O'Connell and Sean Patrick Flanery. “Sex without love equals violence.” That's the bleak thesis lashing around at the bottom..."
Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola
Bringing Out the Dead
"...panoply of hellish, hyper-kinetic horror shows, ratcheting up the violence, music, and woeful fiascoes into a roaring, all-enveloping swirl..."
Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Boys
"...result is an electrifying tour de force of nonspecific violence that as well as any other film I've seen..."
