Tim Appelo
What Were They Thinking? - Dec 28, 2005
A critic looks back on a year's worth of movie miscues.Film By Tim Appelo
The Great Reformation - Dec 21, 2005
Alas, Heath Ledger can't remain a rake for long. Although it's fun watching him go straight.Holiday Film 2005 By Tim Appelo
Heath for the Holidays - Dec 21, 2005
The movies' hunk of the month appeals to men (in Brokeback Mountain) and women (in Casanova). What's the difference between Homo Heath and Hetero Heath?Holiday Film 2005 By Tim Appelo
Virtue Restor'd - Dec 14, 2005
A luxurious, sexy conflation of two 300-year-old plays offers a gallery of dazzling comic turns.Arts By Tim Appelo
Keane - Dec 14, 2005
Runs Fri., Dec. 16–Thurs., Dec. 22, at Varsity.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
Marvelous Assortment - Dec 7, 2005
Absent a single hero, this epic tale of wartime destruction unfolds through scores of stories from victors and vanquished along the way.Arts By Tim Appelo
In Like a Lamb - Dec 7, 2005
Mild but pleasing, The Chronicles of Narnia succeeds more with the CG effects than the kids.Film By Tim Appelo
Making Nice - Dec 7, 2005
Despite its best intentions, Book-It Rep can't stanch the syrupy sweetness of Little Women.Arts By Tim Appelo
Marvelous Assortment - Dec 7, 2005
Absent a single hero, this epic tale of wartime destruction unfolds through scores of stories from victors and vanquished along the way.Books By Tim Appelo
Arrested Development: The Complete Second Season - Nov 30, 2005
Fox Home Ent., $39.98.New on DVD By Tim Appelo
Pooh on You - Nov 23, 2005
Timeless, ageless excess in the Hundred Acre Wood.Gift Guide 1: Tech & Toys By Tim Appelo
Broadway Bound - Nov 23, 2005
For once, keeping a movie musical tied to the stage serves the audience best.Film By Tim Appelo
Sonata in Demotion - Nov 23, 2005
The Post-Intelligencer reassigns its longtime classical-music critic.News By Tim Appelo
Stateless in Seattle - Nov 16, 2005
Jonathan Raban has become the Northwest's premier man of letters. He's more at home inside his head than anywhere else, yet with an immigrant's fresh eyes he's able to shed light on his adopted home and country, as in his new book, My Holy War.Arts By Tim Appelo
Bee Season - Nov 16, 2005
Opens Fri., Nov. 18, at Seven Gables and others.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
Death and the Playwright - Nov 9, 2005
There's no life in the afterlife conjured by legendary writer and human rights activist Ariel Dorfman.Arts By Tim Appelo
The Ninth Day - Nov 9, 2005
Runs Fri., Nov. 11–Thurs., Nov. 17, at Grand Illusion.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
Winter Soldier - Nov 9, 2005
Runs Fri., Nov. 10–Wed., Nov. 23, at Northwest Film Forum.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
An Interview with Joe Wright - Nov 9, 2005
The Sit-Down By Tim AppeloUp Your Skirt - Nov 9, 2005
Screw Jane Austen; Candace Bushnell could be the creator of this sexy new Elizabeth Bennet.Film By Tim Appelo
Larger and Smaller Than Life - Nov 2, 2005
The flaws are drawn more boldly than the virtues in this scathing family fictionalization.Film By Tim Appelo
The Weather Man - Oct 26, 2005
Opens Fri., Oct. 28, at Metro and others.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
The Legend of Zorro - Oct 26, 2005
Opens Fri., Oct. 28, at Metro and others.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
Nine Lives - Oct 26, 2005
Opens Fri., Oct. 28, at Harvard Exit.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
Tony Takitani - Oct 19, 2005
Runs Fri., Oct. 21–Thurs., Oct. 27, at Varsity.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
Whose Funeral Is This? - Oct 12, 2005
Dead on arrival, Elizabethtown threatens to bury Cameron Crowe's career.Film By Tim Appelo
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - Oct 12, 2005
Opens Fri., Oct. 14, at Metro.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
The Worst-Case Best Seller - Oct 12, 2005
How disaster lit became a perfect storm for the publishing industry. Smell a hurricane coming? Grab your pen and notebook.Fall Books By Tim Appelo
The Paper Chase - Oct 5, 2005
Follow the money? Follow the script? The real point to this fun Hollywood spoof is its prose storm of confusion.Arts By Tim Appelo
Red Orchestra - Oct 5, 2005
Runs Fri., Oct. 7–Thurs., Oct. 13, at Grand Illusion.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - Oct 5, 2005
Opens Fri., Oct. 7, at Metro and others.This Week's Attractions By Tim Appelo
No Coup at KING-FM - Sep 21, 2005
A top man at Seattle's classical music station is out, but managers insist declining ratings weren't his fault.Arts By Tim Appelo
Sticky Fingers - Sep 21, 2005
Two new books show why porn is so pervasive—and so hard to put down.Arts By Tim Appelo
Cold Shoulders - Sep 21, 2005
Though the film looks great, there's nothing heartwarming about Tim Burton grave-robbing old movies and older legends.Film By Tim Appelo
Modest Apparel - Aug 31, 2005
Intiman's portrait of a lingerie seamstress is nice when it needs to be naughty.Arts By Tim Appelo
A Wing Luke and a Prayer - Aug 31, 2005
Asian museum undertakes an ambitious, risky capital project.Arts By Tim Appelo
Split Decision - Aug 24, 2005
This fairy tale lacks the full soaring madness of Terry Gilliam at his best—and avoids the murky dishevelment of Gilliam at his worst.Film By Tim Appelo
The Port and the Pot Granny - Aug 17, 2005
Don't expect the tolerance of Hempfest to extend to Sea-Tac Airport.The Drug Issue By Tim Appelo
Smite Makes Right - Aug 10, 2005
Far from Baghdad, we need a sectarian truce of our own. But are hard-believing Americans really ready for a grand compromise?Arts By Tim Appelo
An Interview With Gus Van Sant - Jul 20, 2005
The Sit-Down By Tim AppeloAn Interview with Joan Allen - Jul 13, 2005
The Sit-Down By Tim AppeloSoul Sisters - Jun 22, 2005
Chekhov's trio of siblings provides a stirring experience at Intiman.Arts By Tim Appelo
The Undraped Crusader - Jun 15, 2005
This new Batman gains psychological depth, even if he loses a bit of his old static grandeur.Film By Tim Appelo
Critical Condition - Jun 15, 2005
Arts journalism isn't dead, it's just got a serious case of the blogs.Arts By Tim Appelo
Rock Docs - Jun 1, 2005
SIFF offers a wealth of music documentaries, with important local emphasis and national significance.SIFF Guide 2005 By Tim Appelo
Filming Behind the Camera - May 18, 2005
Never mind what the studios have in store this summer; SIFF shows how Hollywood itself is a rich subject for documentaries.SIFF Guide 2005 By Tim Appelo
Ph.D'oh! - May 11, 2005
Kids, put down that homework and watch some television immediately!Books By Tim Appelo
The Fair and Balanced Crusade - May 4, 2005
Determined not to cause any historical offense, Ridley Scott creates bland bloodshed in the Holy Land—and a hero to suit.Film By Tim Appelo
SPFF's True Grit - Apr 20, 2005
Life isn't so beautiful in Polish Film Fest headliners.Film By Tim Appelo
Saints and Winners - Apr 6, 2005
Two new books attack the Republican monopoly on God. But are there more than two sides to the issue?Books By Tim Appelo
The Digression Artist - Mar 30, 2005
This Equation may not be logical, but it sure is entertaining.Spring Books By Tim Appelo
Six Degrees of Denigration - Mar 30, 2005
Backbiting and betrayal never go out of style in Hollywood—thank God.Spring Books By Tim Appelo
A Rap on War - Mar 9, 2005
Gunner Palace, a new documentary, beholds U.S. soldiers in Iraq. It's TV's M*A*S*H. It's also Apocalypse Now.Dispatches From The Quagmire By Tim Appelo
Deep Throats - Mar 2, 2005
There's plenty to tell, and not all of it tawdry, in this X-rated account.Books By Tim Appelo
Million Dollar Brouhaha - Feb 16, 2005
Local critics horn in on this year's obligatory Oscar controversy. Spoiler alert: We're telling what happens to Hilary Swank.Film By Tim Appelo
Showdown on the (Global) Village Square - Feb 16, 2005
An African woman stands up to the crowd, and Americans will be cheering for her.Film By Tim Appelo
From Park Slope to Park City - Feb 2, 2005
Sundance is still a great destination for indie cinema, beneath the avalanche of bling.Sundance Film Festival By Tim Appelo
Buzz Fever - Jan 26, 2005
The annual Sundance bug has infected this writer, too.Sundance Film Festival By Tim Appelo
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