Movies - May 20, 2005
"Palindromes" makes you feel, but not feel good
If you like to squirm in your seat, rapidly nibble the skin around your fingernails, pray for uncomfortably long scenes to end and feel like American life is completely flocked, "Palindromes" is your flick.
Tags: Solondz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ellen Barkin, twisted, Oriental theatre

Movies - July 9, 2004
"Napoleon Dynamite" is hardly an explosion of laughs
There are some funny moments in Jared Hess' comedy, set in small-town Idaho, but mostly we're laughing at, not with, dorky Napoleon, with his moon boots, nerdy T-shirts and his shock of frizzy red hair.
Tags: Napoleon Dynamite, Hess, Solondz, Heder