<?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/style/movies/stephenhunter?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</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[Triggering Memories]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13871-2004Mar21.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13871-2004Mar21.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The NRA museum is exhibiting an unprecedented gathering of tommy guns and other firearms of the '20s, '30s and '40s.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Story Beneath That Calm Vermeer]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49841-2004Jan2.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49841-2004Jan2.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Girl With a Pearl Earring" -- the movie -- paints a relationship between the artist and his muse.]]></description><author> Laura Winters</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messages in a Battle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15520-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15520-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Stephen Hunter examines the treatment of war in such award-worthy epics as "Return of the King" and "Cold Mountain."]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good Fight]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3212-2003Dec15.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3212-2003Dec15.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With "Return of the King," director Peter Jackson completes Tolkien's epic trilogy of evil vanquished.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Love Don't Cost': In-Crowd Control]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58127-2003Dec11.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58127-2003Dec11.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Love  Don't Cost  a Thing" proves that the meek may indeed inherit the Earth. All they have to do is turn monstrous.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love Takes Its Time]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58122-2003Dec11.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58122-2003Dec11.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The director Nancy Meyers is like a princess who is poked, many many mattresses beneath her fabulously silken flank, by a pea -- or at least a pea-size problem.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dances With Swords]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37137-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37137-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["The Last Samurai" is wannabe-ism on a multimillion-dollar scale, with an icon of Japanese culture somehow crudely penetrated by an interloper and turned inside out.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Tragic Route Of Rio's 'Bus 174']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37205-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37205-2003Dec4.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["This ain't no action movie, bro," says the young hostage-taker Sandro Rosa do Nascimento, waving a gun and giving a news conference at the same time. He was wrong, of course; he was in a terrific action movie but he would not live to see it playing at the Rio de Janeiro Cineplex 7. Sandro's only starring role is the highlight of the terrific "Bus 174."]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['21 Grams':  The Chaotic Order of the Universe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14696-2003Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14696-2003Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Under  its seemingly chic despair, its celebration of squalor and pain, its violence, its willfully skewed narrative scheme, "21 Grams" turns out to be a powerful relic from a bygone age: It's really a "miracle of faith" movie, as straight-ahead religious as "Song of Bernadette."]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['America': This Film Was Made for You and Me]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14876-2003Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14876-2003Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With a title like "In America," Jim Sheridan's new film sounds like one of those generic encomiums to immigrant pluck, luck and guts in which a family of newcomers puts the old ways behind it and makes its way into the  melting pot that is Our Great Land, which is your land, and it's my land, from the New York islands to . . .]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint Nick's Polar Opposite]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14834-2003Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14834-2003Nov25.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Bad Santa," for good or ill, has been demographically engineered for the smallest interest group in America: those who hate Christmas.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Looney Tunes': Daffy Genius]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38638-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38638-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Th-th-that's  not all, folks.<br>Th-th-there's more. <br>"Looney Tunes: Back in Action," the crazed and wonderful continuation of the great Warner Bros. cartoon tradition at feature film budget and length, is delightful, delicious and destructive. It makes one indisputable point, rich in...]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heavy on the Ballast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38542-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38542-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The much ballyhooed and ultra-handsome "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" suffers from what might be called colonitis. It comprises too many equal parts, and they tangle each other up. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Stephen Hunter</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Glory Begat Lies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10034-2003Nov6.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10034-2003Nov6.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Shattered Glass" recounts how an adorable fraud got the staff of one of the world's preeminent political journals to believe in him despite clear warning signs, again and again. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Stephen Hunter</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an Illusion]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1192-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1192-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Neo, schmeo! In "The Matrix Revolutions," directors Andy and Larry Wachowski give up on character; instead, they try havoc and let slurp the dogs of war. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Stephen Hunter</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out, Out, Damn Spotlight]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44952-2003Oct30.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44952-2003Oct30.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Without Nicole Kidman, "The Human Stain," Robert Benton's film version of the Philip Roth novel, probably couldn't exist. But with her, it shouldn't exist. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Stephen Hunter</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Wonderland': Down in the Valley, the Valley So Low]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38783-2003Oct16.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38783-2003Oct16.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The  porn star John Holmes, aka Johnny Wadd, is famous for one thing, but happily, "Wonderland" is not about that one thing. In fact, that one thing is more or less incidental to the story it tells.]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retooled 'Chainsaw' Cuts to the Chase]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38885-2003Oct16.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38885-2003Oct16.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As evidence that we are in a new barbarian age, here's a remake of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," delivered with almost frightening precision. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Stephen Hunter</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Killer Bride]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6427-2003Oct9.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6427-2003Oct9.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Kill Bill," Quentin Tarantino's first film in six years, is pure evil bliss. It's not pulp fiction; it's pulped fiction, a crazed phantasmagoria of high craft, low taste and middlebrow swordplay. <FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>- By Stephen Hunter</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item><item><title><![CDATA['Dopamine': A True Feel-Good Movie]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6334-2003Oct9.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6334-2003Oct9.html?nav=rss_style/movies/stephenhunter</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:29:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ben  Affleck and Ali MacGraw.<br>No, they're not in "Dopamine," but the kids who are -- John Livingston and Sabrina Lloyd -- look just enough like them to drive you crazy as you watch the film. So there, I've done you a big favor. Now you can concentrate on the <em>movie.</em>]]></description><author> Stephen Hunter</author></item></channel></rss>