Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 1/5 ...a passion play with a guy in drag (who could ask for anything more?)... Go to Full Review Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) 15% 86%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 4/5 ...Almodovar's meta-movie teases us with Big Ideas about those of us who love our fantasies so much that we turn them into our realities. Go to Full Review Bad Education (2004) 88% 84%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 4/5 ...eloquently written but not overwritten, with a story that ultimately feels less like a literary construct and more like a spontaneous celebration of a few lived lives... Go to Full Review Off the Map (2003) 70% 85%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 3.5/5 ...Millions pulls off the neat trick of affirming that money can't buy happiness, even as it has a ball pretending that it can. Go to Full Review Millions (2004) 87% 78%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 20, 2005 4.5/5 ...a fascinating sort of connect-the-dots that allows us to essentially piece together our very own personalized portrait of this most curious of artists. Go to Full Review In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) 69% 78%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 7, 2005 4/5 ...might just be the most extravagantly brutal live-action cartoon ever made. Go to Full Review Sin City (2005) 76% 78%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Oct 15, 2004 1/5 ...M. Knight Shyamalan trapped in a pornorgraphic art flick. Go to Full Review The Brown Bunny (2003) 48% 46%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Sep 2, 2004 2/5 The naughty bits were eventually cut (so to speak) for being too "distracting," but the publicity surrounding the deletion may be the best thing the movie has going for it. Go to Full Review A Home at the End of the World (2004) 50% 60%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Sep 2, 2004 1/5 ...a movie that spews so much random, senseless, undigested matter that it seems more like projectile vomiting than filmmaking. Go to Full Review She Hate Me (2004) 19% 60%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 4.5/5 ...a little bit like what Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle might have been without the illusions of grandeur or pretentious aftertaste. Go to Full Review The Saddest Music in the World (2003) 79% 79%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 4/5 For all the talk, there's always something unspoken bubbling away in the space between these two ex-lovers... Go to Full Review Before Sunset (2004) 95% 92%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 2.5/5 ...Daniel and Susan just float around bitching at each other, so the movie frequently seems like a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in scuba gear. Go to Full Review Open Water (2003) 71% 33%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 3.5/5 ...a film both fluid and hermetically sealed, inviting multiple interpretations and yet ultimately reluctant to give up its secrets. Go to Full Review The Door in the Floor (2004) 67% 64%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Aug 30, 2004 4/5 ...an astonishingly graceful ballet performed with swords, arrows and fists. Go to Full Review Hero (2002) 94% 87%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 4.5/5 Almodovar continues to refine the form of melodrama ... without sacrificing one iota of emotional texture or resonance. Go to Full Review Talk to Her (2002) 91% 93%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 4.5/5 We've seen this story before, more or less -- the blood, the budding psychopaths, the all-too-young victims of urban decay -- but never quite like this. Go to Full Review City of God (2002) 91% 97%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 4/5 ...an experience that's both grueling and, in its way, glorious. Go to Full Review Dogville (2003) 70% 89%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 3.5/5 ...a lean, mean entertainment that manages to be both playful and subversive while exhibiting plenty of mainstream appeal. Go to Full Review Mean Girls (2004) 84% 66%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) May 10, 2004 4/5 As with so much in the Islamic world, there are things here that are profoundly beautiful, as well as much that is profoundly scary. Go to Full Review Kandahar (2001) 89% 75%

Lance Goldenberg Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL) Apr 16, 2004 3.5/5 It's dark and gritty and even a little tawdry, pushing ... deep into Death Wish territory, which is exactly as it should be. Go to Full Review The Punisher (2004) 30% 63%