aprii 19.2002
C rush
Andie MacDowell is the one with
the crush— or rather the one head over
heels in love with a much, much younger
man (Kenny Doughty) in this uneven
romantic tragicomedy. MacDowell and
Doughty are both great, and the sex is hot,
hut the well-intentioned study of changing
women’s relationships in the face of an
unconventional coupling turns into too
much of a female-bonding sohfest.
— Lisa Bradshaw
<£§> D eath to S moochy
Like previous Danny DeVito films (Throw
Momma from the Train, The War o f the Roses),
his latest project brims with inspired lunacy,
dark humor and inventive situations. Pub
licly disgraced kiddie show entertainer Robin
Williams plots to destroy his successor,
Smoochy (Edward Norton, brilliant as
always), who meanwhile attempts to reform
the corrupt and dangerous world of childrens
entertainment. Harvey Fierstein’s amusing
appearance as a charity fund racketeer is not
the only “gay theme” here.
— Kevin Moore
the Butterfly's Wings, a reference to the theory
that a flapping insect in the Atlantic can
cause a hurricane in the Pacific.
—Jim Radosta
I ris
Kate Winslet actually seems to channel Iris
Murdoch as a young woman despite
writer/director Richard Eyre’s determination to
bland down the eccentric, brilliant bisexual
novelist and her writer husband, John Bayley
(Jim Broadbent and Hugh Bonneville), into
tiresomely “serious” movie subjects. Judi
Dench as the older Murdoch is fine but wast
ed, as Eyre’s middlebrow sensibility precludes
much of interest in favor of a predictable, Life
time-movie Alzheimer’s storyline.
— Christopher McQuain
What's popped
and what's flopped,
In a theater near you.
Spanking the monkey in Y Tu M amá Tam bién
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Two attractive women find love in the per
sonal ads, but can essentially straight girls be
dud, bottom of the bag
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In the “for what it is” category: For what it
is— an action suspense thriller, basically—
Panic Room is a success. Director David Finch
er (Seven, Fight C lub) offers the usual showy,
technophilic camera tricks, and it’s filmed in
his patented slick, dark Dank ’n ’ Damp-ovi-
sion (which actually does befit the story). We
also get to see Jodie Foster display the fiercest
maternal instincts this side of Linda Hamilton
in Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
—CM
<& >
H appenstance
The adorable Audrey Tautou ( Amélie)
turns on the charm again in this fable about
how even our smallest gestures can change
the course of other people’s lives. The origi
nal French title translates as The Beating o f
come gay? What
could have
been a homo-
phobic embar
rassment isn’t
in this adapta
tion by Jennifer
Westfeldt and
Heather Juergensen of their
stage play. Fortunately the pair insisted
on playing the leads, too, which is largely why
this film is so dam endearing
-LB
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TREM BLING BEFORE G - D
Sandi Dubowski’s must-see documentary
follows the extremely varied lives of a group of
lesbian and gay Orthodox Jews, each with a
unique experience of the grossly unfair struggle
and suffering that occurs when an individual’s
sexuality is pitted against faith. These stories,
in their realness, are as painful as they are
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—C M
Y T u M ama T ambien
Using storytelling quirks similar to those
in Amélie, director/co-writer Alfonso Cuarôn
somehow achieves the impossible: A teen
sex comedy that actually shows sex. A buddy
movie in which one friendship’s limits truly
are put to the test. A coming-of-age road
trip where the characters arrive in a
much different place by the end of
their journey. Don’t miss it.
-JR
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