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Review of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Jun 2007

A romantic subplot about a possum-raised mammoth (Queen Latifah…

Review of Eagle vs Shark (2007)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 12 Jun 2007

You can't see the forest for the twee in writer-director Taika Waititi's thicket of cutesy conceits, from the stunted supporting characters…

Review of Barry Lyndon (1975)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 22 May 2007

Stanley Kubrick's magisterial Thackeray adaptation now stands as one of his greatest and most savagely ironic films, not to mention one of…

Review of Civic Duty (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 30 Apr 2007

Expected ironies about homeland security, racial profiling, and fears of the Other land like a rain of anvils, and director Renfroe matches…

Review of Babel (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Apr 2007

Puzzle master Arriaga may be the Will Shortz of globalized hand-wringing, but the by-now-predictable jigsawing of his scripts reeks of desperation…

Review of The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Mar 2007

For anyone other than hardcore gore-hounds, this flipbook of deliberately invoked global-unrest horrors, from friendly-fire killings to rape…

Review of The Abandoned (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 23 Feb 2007

Cerda's striking creep-show atmospherics, desaturated palette and off-kilter editing rhythms are a style in search of a movie: The muddled…

Review of Daddy's Little Girls (2007)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Feb 2007

Perry's indifferent direction flattens everything out: You might fall asleep if his heavy-mitted music cues didn't keep cattle-prodding your ass…

Review of The Hitcher (2007)

By Jim Ridley (126) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 22 Jan 2007

That leaves little to fill 83 expendable minutes, which barely register as a movie even with snazzy KNB gore effects, critic-baiting clips…

Review of The Dead Girl (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 04 Jan 2007

Moncrieff's glum, somber film is something of a needed corrective at the moment, when horror movies are turning into weightless exercises in…

Review of Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2006

Stranger Than Fiction merely layers whimsy upon whimsy…

Review of Wondrous Oblivion (2004)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 31 Oct 2006

If writer-director Paul Morrison's film traces a predictable arc from racial unease to acceptance, it's often winning--and sometimes tough-minded--in…

Review of Black Sheep (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 23 Sep 2006

The cartoonish overkill that often makes Black Sheep a hoot proves wearying over an entire movie: The broad comedy and one-note characters…

Review of Waltzing Anna (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Aug 2006

The filmmakers care; the actors try; the closing dedication is heartfelt and sweet…

Review of The Night Listener (2006)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Aug 2006

Even when the script overstates the obvious, Stettner mines every nuance of unease from the head games between Williams and the unnerving Collette,…

Review of An American Haunting (2005)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 May 2006

The movie exhausts its blast-in-the-face scares through repetition…

Review of The Whore's Son (2004)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 May 2006

The grave comic presence of Miki Manojlovic (from Kusturica's Underground) as Ozren's worldly uncle stabilizes the movie's tantalizingly uncertain…

Review of The Night of the Hunter (1955)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Nashville Scene (147) on 13 Feb 2001

If you hear cineastes discussing the film in hushed tones, it's only because Mitchum and Laughton have conspired to get under our skins and…

Review of All About Eve (1950)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Nashville Scene (147) on 01 Jan 2000

No other movie makes being smart and cynical look like more fun…

Review of Toy Story 2 (1999)

By Jim Ridley (126) for Nashville Scene (147) on 01 Jan 2000

Its mix of silliness, affection, and piercing nostalgia -- and yes, artistry -- keeps the separate halves of the audience engaged simultaneously…

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