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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Feature Stories
2004-10-27 00:00:00
My first article for the River Cities’ Reader appeared in Issue 18, way back in March of 1995. (You know how long ago that was? Tom Hanks had only one Oscar.) Serving as the Reader’s film critic was, and still is, a terrific gig – for an avowed movie fanatic who loves to write, the chance to expound on the state of cinema has always been about more than giving a particular work a “yay” or “nay” vote; it’s given me, in a minor way, the opportunity to analyze an entire culture, to try to understand what’s in the heads of those who make films, and those who distribute films, and the millions of us who view them.
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2003-11-12 00:00:00
THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
The Matrix was, for me, mostly hooey, and this summer’s The Matrix Reloaded seemed, at best, visually resplendent nonsense, so imagine my surprise when I attended The Matrix Revolutions and found myself really enjoying it.
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2002-10-23 00:00:00
THE RING
Since she previously gave one of my all-time favorite film performances in Mulholland Dr., one of my all-time favorite films, it’s going to take a lot more than a cheesy little scare flick for me to write off Naomi Watts. But it must be said that in The Ring – a horror movie by Gore Verbinski, with a script by Arlington Road’s Ehren Kruger – Ms. Watts comes off as a very poor actress indeed.
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2002-09-04 00:00:00
THE GOOD GIRL
The Good Girl is the most fun I’ve had at the movies since Spider-Man and, with the possible exception of Y tu mama tambien, the finest movie I’ve seen all year, and I can’t begin to describe how shocking that is.
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Written By: Mike Schulz
Section: Movies
Category: Reviews
2002-04-10 00:00:00
HIGH CRIMES
If Hollywood studios absolutely insist on feeding us one piece-of-crap potboiler after another, they could certainly do worse than the trashily entertaining military thriller High Crimes.
Read More About Two Stupid Movies Don’T Spell "Trouble": "High Crimes" And "Big Trouble"...
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