Washington City Paper: Movies

Step Brothers and Chris & Don: A Love Story: Pair Essentials

Two takes on two very
different twosomes.

Film Review Tricia Olszewski

Quartet Till the End of Time
Reviewed: CSNY: Deja Vu
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Dark Knight and Mamma Mia!: Back in Bleak
Heath Ledger is perfect as a bad guy; Mamma Mia! is perfectly lame.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

French Twist
Reviewed: The Last Mistress
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Wackness and The Stone Angel:
Into the Weeds
Ben Kingsley is smokin'; The Stone Angel is not.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Big Chill
Werner Herzog gives Antarctica the cold shoulder.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Action Comics
An illuminating doc on Hunter S. Thompson; one of Will Smith's weakest action films.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Mother and Child Reunion
A strong anti-war message girds a gentle family story.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

The Incredible Hulk and Savage Grace: Monsters' Ball
The latest Hulk is smartly
big and stupid, while Savage Grace keeps its horrors pretty.
Film Review By Tricia Olszewski

Silverdocs 2008
City Paper's guide to this year's Silverdocs documentary film festival.
Cover Story By Mark Athitakis, Jule Banville, Andrew Beaujon, Matthew Borlik, Mike DeBonis, Kim Gooden, Amanda Hess, Tricia Olszewski, and Ruth Samuelson

Mechanical Love
At 11 a.m. Also at 11:30 a.m. Friday, June 20. Both showings at AFI Silver.
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Under Our Skin
At 1:15 p.m. at AFI Silver. Also at 4 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Discovery HD Theater (passholders only) and at 8 p.m. Monday, June 23, at AFI Silver.
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Throw Down Your Heart
At 8 p.m. at AFI Silver. Also at 10 a.m. Saturday, June 21, at Round House Theatre.
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Man on Wire
At 5:30 p.m. Also at 8:30 p.m. Monday, June 23. Both showings at AFI Silver.
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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
At 6:30 p.m. Also at 9 p.m. Wednesday, June 18. Both showings at AFI Silver.
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Dust
At 9 p.m. at Discovery HD Theater (passholders only). Also at 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at AFI Silver.
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In the Family
At 2:15 p.m. at the AFI Silver. Also at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Round House Theatre.
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The Red Race
At 4:30 p.m. Also at 9:45 a.m. Saturday, June 21. Both showings at AFI Silver.
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Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma
6:45 p.m. at AFI Silver. Also 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 19, at Round House Theatre.
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Pindorama: The True Story of the Seven Dwarves
9:15 p.m. at the Discovery HD Theater (passholders only). Also at 10:45 p.m. Friday, June 20 at the AFI Silver.
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CP Movie Picks

"David Lean: A Centennial Celebration"
To Monday, Sept. 1, at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
The phrase “till death do us part” obviously has little meaning to the titular character of director David Lean’s 1945 comedy, Blithe Spirit. In Lean’s adaptation of Noel...
"Johnnie To: Action Auteur"
To Monday, Aug. 18, at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
Hong Kong cinema has been hit hard in the past decade, with A-list directors such as John Woo (Hard Boiled), Tsui Hark (Once Upon a Time in China), Wong Kar-wai (2046) and the Pang Brothers (The Eye)...
"Michelangelo Antonioni: The Italian Treasures"
To Sunday, August 24, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building Auditorium
In his ritual whipping of Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation, critic Armond White called Coppola out for the total cop-out of planting her processed, instant ennui in a foreign setting....
"Afghanistan on Film"
To Saturday, Sept. 6, at the National Gallery of Art's East Building Auditorium
When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1996, Mullah Omar sent his men to shutter the cinemas and torch the films in the national archive. It was a destruction of heritage that would be repeated again...
"Best of Film Neu"
To Monday, Aug. 25, at the Goethe-Institut Washington's GoetheForum
German films used to feel so much more foreign. You know, hypnotized actors improvising a historical drama about a glass blower (Herzog’s Heart of Glass) or something. These were the products of a...