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Jessica Winter, Village Voice

  1. Sahara 2005 Sahara is many things, but it is not a movie. It is the skull-splitting cacophony of 21 producers and four screenwriters (that we know about, anyway) standing in the same room shouting into their cell phones. full review
  2. Stoned 2005 The rock hero starts out dead and so does the movie. full review
  3. Ned Kelly 2003 Marks a welcome departure from the usual rah-rah machismo of the semi-nationalist action adventure, but Jordan never escapes the mighty shadow of The Thin Red Line. full review
  4. Kadosh 1999 full review
  5. A Midsummer Night's Dream 1999 Dangles uncertainly between mannerly devotion to Big Will and susceptibility to a recent cinematic pandemic, the update. full review
  6. My Life so Far 1999 full review
  7. Waking the Dead 1999 As shrill as its heroine. full review
  8. Chinatown 1974 In 1974 a director, a screenwriter, and a producer (Robert Evans, who for once deserves a few of the plaudits he's apportioned himself) could decide to beat a genre senseless and then dump it in the wilds of Greek tragedy. full review
  9. Rosemary's Baby 1968 Hunched, black-eyed, leering, John Cassavetes's Guy is a contaminated satanic canal in himself. full review