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JUVIES

By | March 2000

SXSW FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! “Juvies,” Liz Garbus’ disturbing look at the lives of three different youths struggling with the Baltimore juvenile justice system…

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JUVIES

It should come as no surprise that director Liz Garbus produced the Academy Award-nominated documentary "The Farm: Angola, USA" as "Juvies," her disturbing...

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FREEWORLD

"Freeworld," according to the video sleeve, is a TV pilot "dramatizing the current struggle between the forces of global economic and cultural hegemony and...

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SADDLE TRAIL

I can tell you what happened in "Saddle Trail" but I can't tell you why it happened. A young punk fills his car with gas and squeals off into the night,...

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LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE

You know, it feels as if you must hold an audience at gunpoint to make them watch a documentary on labor issues. To accomplish this task, all it really...

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THE PRICE OF GLORY

I don't really know how much we need another unrealistic, melodramatic boxing movie -- "Rocky II-V" pretty much filled our quota -- but I do know that the...

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HIGH FIDELITY

As crushing as it is when Laura (Iben Hjejle) walks out on Rob Gordon (John Cusack), it doesn't even crack his Top 5 list of all time worst break-ups... at...

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ERIN BROCKOVICH

I hate Julia Roberts. I hate Julia Roberts so much so that every time I see her face on a screen, I want to smash it in with a big frying pan. I have never...

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BITE RADIUS

A group of three archæologists are on a dig when one of them uncovers a strange piece of jaw bone from a rodent that was larger than any other...

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HERE ON EARTH

Kelley (Chris Klein) is a spoiled rich kid attending private school. He gets in a fight with some poor, uneducated locals and ends up destroying the town...

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UNIVERSITY, INC.

My friend Andy calls the inexorable spread of homogenizing chain retailers and corporate megastores that wipe out local businesses the "Walmart-ization" of...

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