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proves how “smart" its protagonist is
by showing him solve a Rubik* Cube?
(Georgia Square 5)
RASHOMAM (NR) 1950. Akira
Kurosawa* masterpiece about four wit
nesses giving four different accounts of
a rape and murder in the woods in one
of the best films of the 20th Century. A
sublime mediation on truth and percep
tion. Shows Monday, 3/19 (Flicker)
RENO 911!: MIAMI (R) I was reticent
about the big-screen debut of “Reno
911!,’ Comedy Central* improv
“Cops' (rom the guys behind MTV*
“The State." The central plot gam
bit—the incompetent Reno Sheriff's
Department are the only healthy law
enforcement left in Miami after a ter
rorist attack—sounded genuinely
humorous, but writers Thomas Lennon
and Robert Ben Garant have a pathetic
feature track record (Taxi. The Pacifier.
Lei's Go to Prison) I am pleased to
announce Reno 911!: Miami is Police
Academy for a new millennium, and
every thousand years, we need a new
Police Academy. Sure. Reno 91V:
Miami is Gute-less. but Lennon,
Garant. Kerri Kenney-Silver. Wendi
McClendon-Covey, Niecy Nash. Carlos
Alazraqui. Cedric Yarbroug and Mary
Birdsong are the comedic equals of
Bubba Smith. David Graf, and Leslie
Easterbrook. Plus, Paul Rudd's hideous
Scarface impersonation is almost as
good as Michael Winslow's mouth
effects. Sketch comedy is always
hit-or-miss, but these cops are sharp
shooters. Reno 91V: Miami is as funny
as three episodes of the show, but is
it worth paying for the humorous milk
that Comedy Central nightly gives away
for free? It damn sure is. (Beechwood);
Ends Thursday (Carmike)
STOMP THE YARD (PG-13) Stomp
the Yard isn't half-bad. It follows DJ
(Columbus Short, “Studio 60 on the
Sunset Strip') from underground street
dancing in L A. to the beautiful cam
puses of the Atlanta University Center.
A talented dancer, DJ soon finds rival
fraternities fighting over his skills to
ensure a victory at the national step
show competition. A good old compe
tition movie, but the choreography* fly
and the surrounding melodrama not
out of step. (Georgia Square 5)
THE ULTIMATE GIFT (PG) I know
FoxFaith Films wasn't begun with me
in mind The company would have
been much too busy hiring third-rate
writers and directors to cobble together
made-for-TV movies faith-based on
Lemstone’s top 10 inspirational
bestsellers^) as to better bilk church
going folk of their eight dollars I
realize the dearth of Dial antibacterial
family films available at the multiplex
(though I'd be remiss if I didn't give a
shout out to Bridge to Terahithia). but
no one should have to pay to watch
something you should get gratis on
PAX In The Ultimate Gift, a trust fund
baby (model-actor Drew Fuiler) inherits
12 Herculean tasks, or “gifts"—one
of them is making a true friend of sick
Little Miss Sunshine herself. Abigail
Breslm—from his wealthy grandfather.
Howard “Red" Stevens (James Garner,
whose paycheck tor maybe a day or
two of work probably devoured much
of the film's budget) Luckily for Jason,
these “gifts" enable him to discover
whether or not money will truly make
him happy, and lucky for Gift, “movie
star' Brian Dennehy graciously drops
by to further convince those paid
attendees the knockoff they are watch
ing deserves to be shown on the big
screen. (Carmike)
WILD HOGS (PG-13) Wild Hogs
is more premise than movie Four
midd'e-aged suburban eunuchs played
by John Travolta. Tim Allen. Martin
Lawrence and William H Macy—all
of whom could use a little bolstering
of their box office track records—try
to regain their masculinity by hitting
the open road on their bikes. Warning:
Most of the jokes are less funny than
they may appear. After the movie, you'll
be picking sexual innuendoes—hetero
and homo—out of your teeth like so
many bugs. (The ‘Scrubs’ fan in me
wasn't totally put off by the homoeroti-
cism-as-humor camping scene involv
ing a far too skintightly-attired John C.
“Dr. Cox’ McGinley, but middle school
boys could have written less juvenile
double entendres.) Travolta slathers on
his enchanting old musk, Indignation,
but mustering up any sympathy for
this not-so-wild bunch of grown men
was impossible At least Wild Hogs
answers once and for all a decade-old
query Os r ar winner Marisa Tomei is
alive (though I don't know that I would
call appearing in this comedy well).
The tanks of multiplexes across the
nation will be filled by Wild Hogs, but
the flick’s just coasting on the fumes of
its stars' fading charms. (Beechwood.
Carmike)
ZODIAC (R) Talented tilmmaker
David Fincher finally releases his sixth
feature, an overdue, overlong thriller
about the Zodiac, a serial killer who
threatened San Francisco in the 1960s
and 1970s Zodiac pursues the parallel
investigations of political cartoonist
Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal)
and the police, led by Inspector David
Toschi (Mark Ruffalo). Fincher's film,
based on a sprawling screenplay by
James Vanderbilt, has to switch gears
pretty quickly Less than an hour into
this 160-minute film, the murdering*
done, and Zodiac's victims become his
investigators' personal lives. Always
a vibrant stylist, Fincher knows not to
skimp on the chills The reenactments
of Zodiac's killings are harrowing
While Gyllenhaal provides a solid
foundation, the opposing talents of the
showy Robert Downey Jr and subtle
Ruffalo provide the film with its patina
A refreshing take on the serial killer
thriller (Beechwood, Carmike)
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