Cowboys, Cash, Capote rank among year’s best 1. “Munich” As someone who neither saluted “Saving Private Ryan” nor worshipped “War of the Worlds,” Steven Spielberg’s taut tour-de-force was the demigod director’s first film in years that had my heart pounding, my mind reeling and my tear ducts welling. Forget the film’s (purposefully muddled) politics and (undeniably muddled) morals; watch instead as Spielberg’s virtuoso command of the camera swivels from continent to conspiracy, country to c ... |
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2005 sees great ‘Development’ 1. “Arrested Development.” In a season of diminished returns and inauspicious debuts, one symphonically insane family continues to exhaust synonyms for “funny” with a rolling, rollicking dysfunction that teeters between manic and blissfully serene. T ... more |
Hamilton, Common prove high notes 1. Anthony Hamilton, “__Ain’t Nobody Worryin.” Simply put, this is by far the best album recorded in 2005. Hamilton’s songwriting reaches a new high on this disc and branches outward to become one of the most fleshed out R&B recordings of the past fe ... more
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