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In These Times

In These Times is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): A.S. Hamrah, Eileen Jones, Joshua Rothkopf, Michael Atkinson.

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Lost in Translation (2003) Joshua Rothkopf ...its pretty images of Tokyo and oddball intergenerational friendship coalesce into something unexpectedly moving...
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
Dogville (2003) Joshua Rothkopf Dogville's tongue-clucking point-and von Trier makes it broadly-is the hypocrisy of the Good Samaritan, but a less clinical film could have done so more powerfully.
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
The Saddest Music in the World (2003) Joshua Rothkopf ...even Guy Maddin, Canada's homegrown David Lynch, stumbled with his gorgeous but inconsequential comedy, The Saddest Music In The World.
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Dallas 362 (2003) Joshua Rothkopf Dallas 362 sparked that rarer thrill of prodigious discovery.
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In the Cut (2003) Joshua Rothkopf Meg Ryan is desperately, unpersuasively naked in Jane Campion's ludicrous erotic thriller...
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The Five Obstructions (2003) Joshua Rothkopf Von Trier's antic documentary The Five Obstructions...comically reveals the Dogmatist at his torturous worst while tapping into appealing depths of insecurity he's never allowed himself.
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) Joshua Rothkopf Tsai Ming-liang's stultifying Good Bye, Dragon Inn captures none of the magic of film despite being set in a movie palace on its final day of operations.
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
The Fog of War (2003) Joshua Rothkopf [A] mesmerizing portrait of former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara...
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Hulk (2003) Joshua Rothkopf I ask you: Is this not the correct way, the honorable way, for a studio to spend $150 million of its summer capital? Universal said The Hulk, and Lee heard something else, perhaps a story of dysfunctional families torn apart by ambition.
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
Shattered Glass (2003) Joshua Rothkopf What Billy Ray's confident debut lacks in situational dramatics...it more than makes up for in the central performance of young Hayden Christensen...
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The Yes Men (2003) Joshua Rothkopf Hilariously, The Yes Men follows a subversive group of well-organized activists posing as guest speakers...
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28 Days Later (2002) Joshua Rothkopf Twenty-eight Days Later is a zombie flick, which makes it my kind of movie-dare I say, our kind of movie. No cinema zombie ever shambles into view without its agenda.
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The Corporation (2003) Joshua Rothkopf Building its indictment carefully, with well-chosen interviews...The Corporation may leave you in a rage.
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992) Joshua Rothkopf [A] well-intentioned but undeniably dull take...
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S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2003) Joshua Rothkopf Pahn arrives at a coolly devastating picture of a regime that claimed more than 2 million lives.
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11-09-01: September 11 (2002) Joshua Rothkopf Unified only by its depressing timidity and a surprising lack of relevance, 11'09"01 is a failure.
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Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2003) Joshua Rothkopf [It] suffers for its tidy reduction of the conflict to man-vs.-monolith romanticism; it does, however, work surprisingly well as a paranoid thriller, complete with screeching tires and telephoto lenses peeking out of the slate-gray windows...
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Far From Heaven (2002) Joshua Rothkopf When a movie gets it all impeccably, heartbreakingly right, as does Todd Haynes' stunning Far from Heaven, some critics are tempted to gush deepest purple...I'll try to stay anchored to more sensible levels of bliss.
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) Joshua Rothkopf It's made with great authority; director Stacy Peralta, in his younger years, rode ramps with the best of them and was the movement's shrewdest self-promoter.
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Adaptation (2002) Joshua Rothkopf There's no good reason why this should work-the picture is a schizzy, self-indulgent mess-but magically, it does.
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25th Hour (2002) Joshua Rothkopf Spike Lee's latest-his 20th feature including TV work-is at long last the raging masterpiece many have suspected him capable of. 25th Hour eclipses everything he's done before, including Do the Right Thing...
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Morvern Callar (2002) Joshua Rothkopf Morvern Callar isn't just cool, it's downright arctic: Ramsay takes her alienation neat with rarely a chaser of glam.
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The Son (2002) Joshua Rothkopf The Dardennes build drama slowly and deliberately, often perching their handheld cameras right at their subjects' earlobes or on the backs of their necks. It's an odd choice, but one that works improbably well in achieving intimacy.
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
The Sixth Sense (1999) Joshua Rothkopf At root, his films are patient vindications of crazy faiths, of ghosts and comic book heroes. Loneliness is his theme, and when blessed with courageous performers, as in The Sixth Sense, he can take us just about anywhere.
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
Signs (2002) Joshua Rothkopf Signs is a tense experience; even the opening credits lunge at your throat with orchestral shrieks. It may one day reveal itself as a minor classic, a new Invasion of the Body Snatchers for the manufactured scare of its day.
Posted Mar 16, 2020  Edit critic review
Bowling for Columbine (2002) Joshua Rothkopf Readers of these pages need no introduction to Michael Moore, nor will they require any acrobatics on my part to go see Bowling for Columbine, which is (brace yourselves) pretty terrific.
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Windtalkers (2002) Joshua Rothkopf Woo reminds us that wars are fought by people; this is what makes his film great.
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Ocean's Eleven (2001) Joshua Rothkopf As we live and breathe, Steven Soderbergh is making the best kid-stuff for adults since Howard Hawks put Cary Grant in a sombrero. It's no small achievement.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) Joshua Rothkopf Jackson is working from obvious passion; he knows the most special of effects are expected of him but deploys his technology smartly.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Joshua Rothkopf If it sounds bittersweet, it is, but like the best family albums, Tenenbaums is split wide with open-heartedness, and equally generous with its triumphs and failures.
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Mulholland Dr. (2001) Joshua Rothkopf With Mulholland Drive, the trance that comes so easily to him is finally charged with the doom of a classic.
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Rollerball (2002) Joshua Rothkopf Rollerball is an unbelievable bomb, but one of the most educational-revealing corporate desperation at its vulgar low.
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What Time Is It There? (2001) Joshua Rothkopf Throughout, Tsai makes his rhymes work with an almost subliminal grace: from him to her, from clocks to hearts, from an ancient Paris graveyard to the modern passageways of locker-like columbaria...
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Together (2000) Joshua Rothkopf Moodysson excels at this delicate staging of inappropriateness; his true theme begins to cohere out of the sullen stares of children forced to tap undeveloped reserves of patience as the adults test the limits of liberation.
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Planet of the Apes (2001) Joshua Rothkopf Gorilla warfare soon becomes the order of the day and you’ll experience some palpable seat-shifting. But Burton is its chief casualty; he’s so much better at loners than phalanxes.
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Memento (2000) Joshua Rothkopf Memento would only be half as fun with only one gimmick or the other. Instead, the backward storytelling and the frozen man make for a wonderful pair, combining into something far more redemptive than it sounds.
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15 Minutes (2001) A.S. Hamrah It's pretty clear it's the audience who the filmmakers think are the sheeps here.
Posted Jan 29, 2019  Edit critic review
Series 7 (2001) A.S. Hamrah Series 7 never cracks, it's true. His film may be revenge for all the segments he had to produce for tabloid-TV news magazines earlier in his career, but those spots take their revenge on him as well: His movie looks like a TV show.
Posted Dec 04, 2018  Edit critic review
People's Republic of Desire (2018) Michael Atkinson It's the massive number of fans, coupled with the obvious catastrophic loneliness and blind devotionalism, that makes Wu's film so haunting.
Posted Nov 02, 2018  Edit critic review
Ghost World (2001) A.S. Hamrah Ghost World is animated by a tension between Seymour's 78 rpm universe and Enid's dedication to a punk etho
Posted Oct 31, 2018  Edit critic review
Moulin Rouge (2001) A.S. Hamrah If its goal was to reveal the emptiness of postmodern bricolage at the blockbuster level, it has succeeded. By any other standard, it's a mess.
Posted Oct 29, 2018  Edit critic review
Araby (2017) Michael Atkinson It's a soft bolero of a film, painting a searing portrait of life for developing-nation laborers but coming around in the end to touches of loveliness and humanity we didn't see coming.
Posted Jul 05, 2018  Edit critic review
A Gray State (2017) Michael Atkinson Nelson's film is a fairly straightforward police-file-and-talking-heads affair, energized by the use of Crowley's own storehouse of footage, and in essence positing him as a co-director.
Posted Dec 13, 2017  Edit critic review
Spettacolo (2017) Michael Atkinson Certainly, it will be difficult for many American viewers to resist not only the vacation porn, but the vision of a village so intimately bonded by its years of collective self-expression that it's nearly a social ideal.
Posted Sep 14, 2017  Edit critic review
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) Eileen Jones It saddens me to report that, though there are still great scenes of primate conflict, the third film of the trilogy succumbs in the end to fatal chicken-heartedness.
Posted Jul 20, 2017  Edit critic review
A Ghost Story (2017) Michael Atkinson I was still knuckling my forehead in skepticism through to the last few minutes. But that's when the film's mournful ache abruptly feels earned, and its mysteries become tangible. Days later I was still thinking of Lowery's inspired imagery
Posted Jul 13, 2017  Edit critic review
Okja (2017) Michael Atkinson For someone whose films are bursting with outrageous computer imagery, and whose sensibility could be characterized as hyperviolent satiric pulp, Korean director Bong Joon-ho sure is a gung-ho Captain Planet.
Posted Jun 29, 2017  Edit critic review
The Little Hours (2017) Michael Atkinson Goofy as it is, Baena's film has a lovable humility to it. It doesn't try to be the definitive anything, even as it stands as arguably the savviest Decameron adaptation ever made.
Posted Jun 20, 2017  Edit critic review
A Quiet Passion (2016) Michael Atkinson As the sisters' lives slide into an autumnal dark age, Davies' artificiality gives way to emotional nakedness that's at times hard to watch.
Posted Apr 13, 2017  Edit critic review
Raw (2016) Michael Atkinson Some people like their movie meals straight up, steak and potatoes and no funny business. But from where I'm sitting, there's nothing quite as tasty and chewable as a film with layers and secrets.
Posted Mar 16, 2017  Edit critic review
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