Award-winning director Michael Cuesta continues to play with themes of teenage morality in his follow-up to 2001's L.I.E. Twelve and Holding...
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Twelve and Holding Michael Cuesta Published Jan 01, 2006 -
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Where the Truth Lies Atom Egoyan Published Jan 01, 2006For some, Atom Egoyan's films tend to fall into two categories: movies titled The Sweet Hereafter and everything else he's ever directed. Un...
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Wassup Rockers Larry Clark Published Jan 01, 2006The last time we saw Larry Clark, he was throwing fists at an offended distributor, resulting in his film's ban in the UK. He's toned it dow...
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A/K/A Tommy Chong Josh Gilbert Published Jan 01, 2006Nothing seems more gratuitous than dispatching cops in riot gear to arrest a 60-year-old hippie at five a.m. Still, it happened to counter-c...
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Romance and Cigarettes John Turturro Published Jan 01, 2006Equal parts romantic comedy and musical, John Turturro's Romance and Cigarettes is a picture made interesting wholly due to its misfit cast....
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Bring It On: All Or Nothing Steve Rash Published Jan 01, 2006Here we have the third instalment (and second straight-to-video release) for what should have been a glorious franchise. Because, lets be s...
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Just My Luck Donald Petrie Published Jan 01, 2006Hooray, another wacky role reversal movie starring Lindsay Lohan! This time she stars as Ashley Albright, the luckiest girl in NYC. The rain...
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Tom Green: Inside and Outside the Box Published Dec 01, 2005Though Tom Green has long since ditched television for the creative freedom of the Internet, a proper collection of his pre-MTV series The...
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Lords of Dogtown Catherine Hardwicke Published Nov 01, 2005Lords of Dogtown is the true story of the Zephyr Team, a revolutionary group of surfers-turned-skateboarders from Venice, California who sav...
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Bee Season Scott McGehee and David Siegel Published Nov 01, 2005Who knows why, but spelling bees are inherently awesome. What's better than watching scared-to-death smart kids spell words that probably do...
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Where the Truth Lies Atom Egoyan Published Oct 01, 2005For some, Atom Egoyan's films tend to fall into two categories: movies titled The Sweet Hereafter and everything else he's ever directed. Un...
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Rize David LaChapelle Published Aug 01, 2005Famed photographer turned music video director David LaChapelle (the guy who bestowed upon us Aguilera's "Dirrty" video) has jumped the ladd...
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Last Days Gus Van Sant Published Aug 01, 2005It's hard not to be ambivalent about Last Days, a film that morbidly teeters on the line of fact and fiction. As the final instalment in Van...
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Lords of Dogtown Catherine Hardwicke Published Jun 01, 2005When it was announced that a movie had been scripted about the Zephyr Skate Team (following the success of Stacey Peralta's documentary, Dog...
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The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 3-D Robert Rodriguez Published Jun 01, 2005Robert Rodriguez is your hero. Here he is following up Sin City with Shark Boy and Lava Girl, a movie conceptualised solely by his seven-yea...
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Palindromes Todd Solondz Published May 01, 2005With each film, Todd Solondz further solidifies his role as a societal scab picker. Not a single hot topic goes untouched, and here he nurse...
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Are We There Yet? Brian Levant Published May 01, 2005Ice Cube must be stopped. Remember, circa 1988, when he was all, "straight outta Compton/crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube/from the gang cal...
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Dogtown and Z-Boys: Deluxe Edition Stacey Peralta Published May 01, 2005With the upcoming theatrical release of Lords of Dogtown a starchy-looking, fictionalised account of the '70s Zephyr Skate/Surf Team com...
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Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine Vikram Jayanti Published Mar 01, 2005In 1997, chess super-genius Garry Kasparov famously sat down for a match against IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was the second time Kasparo...
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Fat Albert Joel Zwick Published Mar 01, 2005Kenan Thompson stars in this could-have-been-worse live action update of the Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids cartoon series. The plot hangs it...