"TURN THE RIVER is a finely observed portrait of a desperate working-class woman who refuses to play by ordinary rules."New York Times60.80843
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"...This just about perfect little picture...is a triumphant anomaly: a rude comedy of manners..." Rolling Stone "...Stillman has a disarming ace....[METROPOLITAN] engrosses and charms..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...A comedy of manners of a very high order....The actors are a uniformly engaging lot..." New York Times "...Stillman's gift for quiet, scrupulous observation grows on you....Stillman is a pointillist, working in the tiniest, most meticulous degrees..." Los Angeles Times "[T]his witty yet wistful dream of a film smartly zeroes in on the universal desire to belong." -- Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly "Very well-written, affecting and often funny....With an almost sociological eye, Stillman explores the world of Manhattan's preppie debutantes and their escorts."Sight and Sound24.32596
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"...Delicious malice and unexpected compassion....The cast is first-rate..." Rolling Stone "...Accomplished film-making....Fine performances and polished wit..." Sight and Sound "...Stillman evokes the hopeful melancholy of world-weary kids searching, la Chic, for good times..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly "...[Stillman] again renders his characters' fretfulness in deft, funny and improbably touching ways..." New York Times "...Sharp-eyed and charming....Made with Stillman's trademark dry wit and whimsical sense of humor..." Los Angeles Times "...[Stillman] nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire....The underlying tone of the film is sweet, fond and a little sad..." Chicago Sun-Times "A masterful evocation of the giddiness and instantaneous nostalgia of waning youth."Film Comment "It's hard to watch this movie and not feel nostalgic -- not for the end of the disco era, but for those heady late-'90s days when small, almost novelistic movies like this were relatively common..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club24.32596
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"...Delicious malice and unexpected compassion....The cast is first-rate..."Rolling Stone "...Accomplished film-making....Fine performances and polished wit..."Sight and Sound "...Sharp-eyed and charming....Made with Stillman's trademark dry wit and whimsical sense of humor..."Los Angeles Times "...Stillman evokes the hopeful melancholy of world-weary kids searching, la Chic, for good times..." -- Rating: A-Entertainment Weekly "...[Stillman] again renders his characters' fretfulness in deft, funny and improbably touching ways..."New York Times "...[Stillman] nails his characters with perfectly heard dialogue and laconic satire....The underlying tone of the film is sweet, fond and a little sad..."Chicago Sun-Times "A masterful evocation of the giddiness and instantaneous nostalgia of waning youth."Film Comment "It's hard to watch this movie and not feel nostalgic -- not for the end of the disco era, but for those heady late-'90s days when small, almost novelistic movies like this were relatively common..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club24.32596
$30.20
"...Stillman has a disarming ace....[METROPOLITAN] engrosses and charms..." -- 3 out of 4 stars USA Today "...A comedy of manners of a very high order....The actors are a uniformly engaging lot..."New York Times "...This just about perfect little picture...is a triumphant anomaly: a rude comedy of manners..."Rolling Stone "...Stillman's gift for quiet, scrupulous observation grows on you....Stillman is a pointillist, working in the tiniest, most meticulous degrees..."Los Angeles Times "[T]his witty yet wistful dream of a film smartly zeroes in on the universal desire to belong." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "Very well-written, affecting and often funny....With an almost sociological eye, Stillman explores the world of Manhattan's preppie debutantes and their escorts."Sight and Sound24.32596
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"...Whit's ample wit [is] once again the star of the show..." - RecommendedPremiere "...BARCELONA is a remarkable find: The film doesn't stop at getting your attention, it rewards it..."Rolling Stone "...[BARCELONA has] an offbeat, amusing specificity that is distinctive and rare....A slender, deadpan romantic comedy with its eye toward world affairs..."New York Times "...[This] sophisticated picture possesses a strong authorial voice and an appealing intelligence..."Variety "...Stillman brings great wit and wicked humor to his subjects, but he doesn't make fun of them -- he likes them..."Chicago Sun-Times "...Often humorous, sometimes jazzy, frequently serious, occasionally annoying, and always literate." -- Rating: B+Entertainment Weekly "...Nichols and Eigeman handle Stillman's quirky dialogue exceptionally well..."Los Angeles Times24.32596
$24.72
"...[A] wryly comic mood piece....Scenes move from hurt to resigned laughter and ring poignantly true..." Rolling Stone "...[The dialogue] scales the heights of post-Salinger acidity and provides an element of charming pathos..." -- Rating: B+Entertainment Weekly "...An easy, low-key tone, with nicely framed shots and subtle camera movements....Baumbach draws good performances from his cast..." Variety "...Baumbach surely does make these characters, all of whom are impeccably acted, absolutely real....Baumbach builds unobtrusively to a knock-your-socks-off finish that allows KICKING AND SCREAMING to conclude on its strongest note..." Los Angeles Times "...[The film has] a good eye and a terrific ear..."Chicago Sun-Times 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]he balance is introspective, goofy, sharp, and every bit as relevant at the beginning of this century as it was at the end of the last decade."Premiere20.85082
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Entertainment Weekly (2/6/98, p.63) - "Newcomer Knight plows the same gritty ground as Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt on an impressive set of original story-songs. Often cinematic in his imagery and spare on instrumentation, he's best at profiling dark characters whose violence bubbles just below the surface..." - Rating: A-12.35149
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CMJ (9/4/00, p.23) - "...Near-classic-sounding soul-pop ditties....Talent this effortless is a rarity..."12.35149
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"Each hilarious half hour was jam-packed with a monologue, interview, fake interview, skits and music....Still funny." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly10.83405
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BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!10.6593
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"Chris Rock can still blister..." Rolling Stone "[L]ooking very Pryor, Rock revs over 90 minutes to an uproarious climax..." Uncut "[T]his fourth HBO special demonstrates his continued ability as a stand-up." Sight and Sound10.03117
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"...There are some lively comic moments..."USA Today "...There's a lot of exuberant, nutty, try-it-and-move-on stuff spread around....Blithe and fearless in talking about race..."Entertainment Weekly "...Wickedly cynical about the American electoral system....Chris Rock is a smart, fast-talking comedian with an edge..."Chicago Sun-Times "...Bernie Mac is consistently funny and adds a saucy edge to HEAD OF STATE..."Box Office9.433662
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"Mr. Rock has not only done his best work as a director and screenwriter but has also made an unusually insightful and funny mainstream American movie about the predicaments of modern marriage."New York Times "Rock's second stint behind the camera results in a sophisticated look at the tedium of an old marriage and the temptation of a new love that marks a maturing of his humor without any attendant dulling of his cutting-edge causticity."Box Office9.357646
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CMJ (8/21/00, p.23) - "...His indefatigable indie-rock humanism is strong as ever....typically plaintive and lovely..."8.822491
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Dirty Linen (12/99-1/00, p.89) - "...a few gems....Webster is an assured singer who knows how to bring out the best in her material."8.822491
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Entertainment Weekly (8/4/00, p.87) - "...Culled from out-of-print records and rerecorded with contemporary backing....the former World Bareback Riding champion has no trouble evoking the dust of the cowboy lifestyle..." - Rating: B8.822491
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