Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

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  On the Edge: The Femicide in Ciudad Juarez

  Steev Hise

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  In the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez, more than 400 poor, young women have been kidnapped, raped and murdered. On the Edge is the st...

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  Friends with Money

  Nicole Holofcener

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  This movie would have you believe that it’s on the side of its non-moneyed lead, Jennifer Aniston — that’s her cleaning houses and being pa...

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  Stray Dogs

  Marzieh Meshkini

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  Cinematic verve and iconographic obviousness collide in this latest from the Makhmalbaf clan, once again training its eye on strife in Afgh...

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  Don't Come Knocking

  Wim Wenders

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  You want to hope that sometimes people can make it back. Specifically, you hope that the great Wim Wenders can turn around his losing strea...

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  L'Enfant

  Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

  The Belgian sibling duo of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne triumph in what may be their finest film to date. The title ostensibly refers to a...

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  Shooting Dogs

  Michael Caton-Jones

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  My hopes were not high for this film, which boasts not one but two heroic whitey leads in a sea of black Rwandans. And sure enough, the Cau...

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  The Mistress of Spices

  Paul Mayeda Berges

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  Aishwarya Rai is brilliant at staring into space. As the star of Mistress of Spices, she’s not asked to do much else; her character is a ma...

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  The Descent

  Neil Marshall

  PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2006

  I wouldn’t say that this British shocker breaks new ground for horror, but it’s a nice return to the time when the genre actually meant fea...