<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Stephen Hunter on Movies</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><description>Stephen Hunter on Movies</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[A Loose Translation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8064-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8064-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["The Interpreter" slips like a drunk on a greasy playground slide in a high wind. You're left with admirable, even noble, wreckage, but wreckage it is.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Sahara': Stupid From the Heat]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35862-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35862-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Sahara" is a mediocrity wrapped inside a banality, toasted in a nice, fresh cliche.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Oldboy': Plain Tough]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35882-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35882-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Chan-wook Park's "Oldboy," is a powerful and disturbing psychological drama from South Korea (and the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prize).]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding the Thriller Genre 'Hostage']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18960-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18960-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bruce Willis movie "Hostage" provides the perfect vehicle to examine a clinical question: What is wrong with the thriller today?]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darkest Noir]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17515-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17515-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Sin City" is a dessert from hell, an intense reduction of certain urban pop culture traditions into a creme brulee of brilliant artificiality. It takes the stylings of the spontaneous and gripping film noir moviemaking of the '40s  --  shadowy streets, neon spangles, dramatic compositions, extreme states of being  --  and melts them down to scabrous, gooey essence.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Water': A Killer's Crisis of Conscience]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17459-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17459-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Walk  on Water," an ingeniously crafted Israeli drama, cuts in so many different directions it could be a jigsaw convention. Every single relationship is fraught with paradox, ambiguity, regret and double-entendre, yet the thing is so smoothly made and well-acted it draws you in.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Steamboy':  Anime Powered  By Hot Air]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64723-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64723-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Somehow, the new, incredibly elaborate piece of Japanese anime "Steamboy," by Katsuhiro Otomo, isn't Japanese enough.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['D.E.B.S.': High School Confidential Agents]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64608-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64608-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A cliche that happens to be (like so many cliches) true points out how much life is like high school. Angela Robinson takes that notion a further evolutionary step by pointing out that espionage and counterterrorism are just like high school.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Melinda and Melinda':  A Tragedy, a Comedy, a Mess]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58609-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58609-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Give Woody Allen credit for ambition. Failing at one movie wasn't enough. Nearly anyone can do that; it happens all the time. He's chosen to fail at two simultaneously.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['The Ring Two': Back to The Well Once Too Often]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45617-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45617-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[I had very little luck with "The Ring Two," which appears to have been written on a large piece of blank paper by chickens with their feet dipped in ink.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Millions': Manna From Heaven's Dark Side]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45532-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45532-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As a subject of movie study, virtue has never done too well. The rare biopics of saints tend to go heavy on the sanctimony and holy water (and all that organ music!); virtue, 14 feet tall and in color, is seldom as intriguing as vice.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ice Princess':  A Familiar but  Pleasant Routine]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45511-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45511-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A wit has said that figure skating appeals to young women because it is so much like their private lives, being composed primarily of cliques, gossip and sparkles.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Clockwork Lemon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25749-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25749-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA['Robots' creates a fantastic Setting, then fills it with insipid characters.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitler as Monster and Man]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25747-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25747-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Downfall" chronicles the last few days of the Thousand-Year Reich and tests us on the limits of our humanity, which is why it is so eerily fascinating.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Be Cool': Light on the Chili]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5803-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5803-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Is the single idea in "Be Cool" enough to sustain the otherwise running-on-empty thing over a full hour and three quarters? Just barely.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Gunner Palace':  Warriors at the  Pleasure Dome]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5733-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5733-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[There's no "hi! hi! hee!" in the field artillery these days, particularly in those units like 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery of the 1st Armored Division, which has been deployed to Iraq. It's more of a "Oh, hell, why me?" kind of deal and it's Humvees, not caissons, that roll along.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enjoyable Eye-Candy, Even If You're Not Drawn to Anime]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5735-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5735-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fans  of the exquisite if recondite Japanese art form known as anime will probably be amused by the Korean entree into the field, "Sky Blue."]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Cursed': A Real Howler]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54714-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54714-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Christina Ricci is such a singular film presence that it's heartbreaking to see her in a spectacularly unsingular film like "Cursed."]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tommy Lee Jones: Lone  Star in a  Big 'House']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54713-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54713-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "Man of the House" is a one-screen multiplex.<br>It's got a lot of small movies bouncing around inside it, but there's no big movie on the outside.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overkill With Sean Penn]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25246-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25246-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_artsandliving/movies/reviews/hunter</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 3:23:29 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["The  Assassination of Richard Nixon" isn't about the assassination of Richard Nixon, of course, because Nixon wasn't assassinated. It's about the assassination of George Neal Ramsburg, who <em>was </em>assassinated, to the pain and eternal grief of parents who knew and loved him, friends who adored him, colleagues who respected him.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item></channel></rss>