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WBAI Web Radio is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Kam Williams, Prairie Miller.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Black August (2007) Prairie Miller A searing and earnest drama delving into the tragic, short life of the late George Jackson, sixties US political prisoner, LA Black Panther spiritual and intellectual guiding force, and fierce leader within the Black prison movement.
Posted Jan 26, 2008  Edit critic review
10 Items or Less (2006) Prairie Miller A Hollywood hotshot played by Morgan Freeman, befriends a supermarket cashier just so he can get familiar enough with acting like somebody poor, to get into character for his next movie, and the effort fails miserably.
Posted Oct 21, 2007  Edit critic review
DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006) Prairie Miller This slice of quirky life story about a classy, unattainable suit in a store window, is one classy movie as well, ennobling its host of eccentric and tragic, yet determined and struggling, vividly realized characters.
Posted Oct 10, 2007  Edit critic review
Desert Bayou (2007) Prairie Miller A scathing documentary baring a nation into deep denial about lingering buried injustices and inequities which rose to the surface exposed to the light of day, in the wake of the Katrina floods.
Posted Oct 09, 2007  Edit critic review
Golda's Balcony (2007) Prairie Miller This shamelessly uncritical view of Golda, her world perspective, and the period of Middle Eastern history over which she presided as a major player, confuses the protagonist's point of view with the reality. Grandmother or godfather?
Posted Oct 08, 2007  Edit critic review
Out of the Blue (2006) Prairie Miller A disturbing, mesmerizing thriller, recounting the real life plight of a remote coastal New Zealand village in the grip of a nearly invisible, deadly force, eccentric and angry recluse turned serial killer, David Gray.
Posted Oct 07, 2007  Edit critic review
The Winter Guest (1997) Prairie Miller Moving as flawlessly and gracefully across the movie screen as the snow on its mute, chilly Scottish landscape, the film inspires amazement and awe as the work of novice director, Alan Rickman.
Posted Oct 05, 2007  Edit critic review
Romance (1999) Prairie Miller The bottom line is acting out sexual urges and fantasies normally acceptable only in male characters, as the actress philosophizes with an assortment of cocks, determined to 'rape myself,' in a clinical orgy with a roomful of aspiring young gynecologists.
Posted Oct 05, 2007  Edit critic review
Kurt Cobain About a Son (2006) Prairie Miller A lone voice caught in solo flight, the results range from hypnotic and eloquent to infuriatingly arrogant and self-indulgent. But somewhere in between are glimpses of a transient soul passing through a painful planet, seeking an elusive Nirvana.
Posted Sep 30, 2007  Edit critic review
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004) Prairie Miller Ecological disaster meets greed and a desperate bid for human salvation, in this metaphorical meditation on the forecast apocalyptic doom of America.
Posted Sep 30, 2007  Edit critic review
The Girl Next Door (2007) Prairie Miller Much more than just your basic sadistic horror thriller, The Girl Next Door redefines the notion of guilty pleasure as raw and potent allegory, and corrective to the US culture of conformist collective complicity.
Posted Sep 29, 2007  Edit critic review
Cowboy del Amor (2005) Prairie Miller One would anticipate the crafting of a sinister satire here, but the film is dead serious and overidentified with Cowboy Cupid's boastful, smirking posturing. A camera in the hand of a director should be more than just a piece of surveillance equipment.
Posted Sep 29, 2007  Edit critic review
Giuliani Time (2005) Prairie Miller Keating makes the case that a Giuliani presidency would be an exceedingly bad idea, juxtaposing the politician's public persona and veneer of fake charm, with his vicious dark side that periodically peers through.
Posted Sep 29, 2007  Edit critic review
Why We Fight (2005) Prairie Miller While this misleading doc lauds neo-conquistador Eisenhower for coining and anticipating the military industrial complex, let's not forget how he propagated something else - the CIA extra-legal tactic of target assassinations.
Posted Sep 29, 2007  Edit critic review
Canvas (2006) Prairie Miller The director happens to know the often maligned subject of mental illness well from his own childhood as the son of a psychotic mother, and he embraces it with genuine feeling, emotional spontaneity and absence of consciously formulated dramatic pretense.
Posted Sep 28, 2007  Edit critic review
Strange Culture (2007) Prairie Miller A timely wakeup call - Kurtz's own '5/11' as he terms his personal nightmare - to remind us just how dangerous and threatening the terrorism of the US government is right now, towards its own people.
Posted Sep 27, 2007  Edit critic review
Shadow Company (2006) Prairie Miller This documentary touching on both the historical evolution and contemporary phenomenon of mercenaries feels uncomfortably like a promotional campaign for private security firms, as they're more euphemistically termed.
Posted Sep 27, 2007  Edit critic review
A Girl Cut in Two (2007) Prairie Miller Masterfully focuses a keen eye on the misogynistic convergence of entrenched private emotional exploitation of women, and their objectification in public entertainment. Bravo, Claude, a rare man in profound touch with the darker impulses of his species.
Posted Sep 21, 2007  Edit critic review
Silk (2007) Prairie Miller In a film that just happens to be about the topic of fabric, Silk like a mannequin draped in an elegant costume, is all shimmering surface and hollow core.
Posted Sep 12, 2007  Edit critic review
D.O.A.: Dead or Alive (2006) Prairie Miller A metaphorical training bra for ogling boys - along with second childhood Dirty Old Aged men - DOA gives new meaning to females hooking up and hanging out, when it comes to airborne upper body intimate wear and its gravity defying plastic contents alike
Posted Sep 12, 2007  Edit critic review
The Lives of Others (2006) Prairie Miller The Lives Of Others' obedient, obsessed spy in an exceedingly odd sense may have much more of a handle on the lives of others than, say, the filmmaker, who himself was around six years old at that time period of the former GDR.
Posted Sep 11, 2007  Edit critic review
Beauty Remains (2004) Prairie Miller A luminous, epic dreamscape, reimagining a decaying lost paradise from whose destructive core a buoyant redemptive unshackled political consciousness and redefined, aroused sisterhood rise from the ashes of repressive patriarchy.
Posted Sep 10, 2007  Edit critic review
(undefined) Prairie Miller Delwende: Filmu Osobnosti Hledani
Posted Sep 09, 2007  Edit critic review
Fierce People (2005) Prairie Miller The inspired dark humor here is that the tongue in cheek anthropological study of a strange and intimidating leisure class tribe, is exactly what this encounter with these pampered alien creatures inhabiting a gilded jungle turns out to be.
Posted Sep 07, 2007  Edit critic review
The Bothersome Man (2006) Prairie Miller Bothersome Man is a stark yet strangely lyrical, multi-layered dirge for the absurdity of human fate in the face of figuratively deadening social conformity, and on the other hand, literal mortality.
Posted Sep 03, 2007  Edit critic review
Homie Spumoni (2007) Prairie Miller An equal opportunity take-no-prisoners, smooth satirical sendup of the state of race relations in the country right now.
Posted Sep 01, 2007  Edit critic review
Antonia (2006) Prairie Miller A euphoric celebration of the rough road to womanhood and at the same time a biting critique of machista culture, Antonia is a brave, inspired antidote to current misogynistic Brazilian film fare.
Posted Aug 25, 2007  Edit critic review
Self-Medicated (2005) Prairie Miller Lapica has based the story on his own personal struggle to survive a troubled Vegas adolescence intact, and the skilled assurance and confidence of his first film imparts a seriousness and depth way beyond his years.
Posted Aug 24, 2007  Edit critic review
Katrina Experience (2006) Prairie Miller KAMP KATRINA: A slice of life doc about the collective survival process that arose following Hurricane Katrina, and shaped as a kind of spontaneous reality show about rebuilding a community.
Posted Aug 19, 2007  Edit critic review
U-Carmen Ekhayelitsha (2005) Prairie Miller Central to an expression of new female South African pride, is the lovely Pauline Malefane as Carmen, whose astonishing vocal power embodies both feminine grace and charm, along with bold, militant proletarian fire.
Posted Aug 11, 2007  Edit critic review
The Refugee All Stars (2005) Prairie Miller There couldn't be a better example of the healing power of art right now than Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, six musicians who fled the horrific civil war, and spent years languishing in refugee camps where they all met and came together to make music.
Posted Aug 04, 2007  Edit critic review
In Between Days (2006) Prairie Miller Too minimalist for its own good when it comes to story details and even essential basic factual information, In Between Days can best be described as a skillfully lensed missed opportunity.
Posted Aug 02, 2007  Edit critic review
Rescue Dawn (2007) Prairie Miller Twisting truths to bestow sympathy and stature on dubious characters and crimes against humanity, Herzog spins historical fiction yet again in the service of imperialism. Tell me Werner, who funded this film, and expose its premeditated fabrications.
Posted Aug 01, 2007  Edit critic review
Becoming Jane (2007) Prairie Miller The tender emotion, delicacy of feeling and above all brilliant inspired flashes of brash female wit, render the truth or exaggeration of the tale simply secondary.
Posted Jul 28, 2007  Edit critic review
4/4
The Camden 28 (2006) Kam Williams In revisiting the oppressive measures employed by the FBI during that era, the viewer is treated to a welcome message about the right, if not the duty, to challenge authority, especially in the face of corruption, intransigence and utter arrogance.
Posted Jul 24, 2007  Edit critic review
Love (2007) Prairie Miller There was the seed of a far more fascinating story buried somewhere within, but it seems to have gotten lost amid all the boobs and bullets.
Posted Jul 23, 2007  Edit critic review
The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin (1967) Prairie Miller A Cuban comedy classic spinning a playfully couched tale of misfortune, exploitation and guerrilla uprising that might be termed revolutionary lite.
Posted Jul 21, 2007  Edit critic review
Dans Paris (2006) Prairie Miller There's a passion and a heart to these proceedings, however momentarily clumsy or awkward, that make it difficult ultimately, to resist its peculiar charms.
Posted Jul 20, 2007  Edit critic review
Send a Bullet (2007) Prairie Miller Manda Bala effectively captures the enormous class divide in Third World Brazil, and the unarticulated simmering class tensions that the oblivious upper classes seem to take pains in denying.
Posted Jul 17, 2007  Edit critic review
Drama/Mex (2006) Prairie Miller The murky melodrama's vicarious perversions may set a dubious new low standard in cinema - gross-out tragedy.
Posted Jul 17, 2007  Edit critic review
Great World of Sound (2006) Prairie Miller No matter what's real or rehearsed, Great Wall Of Sound couldn't come any closer to the truth.
Posted Jul 15, 2007  Edit critic review
The Page Turner (2006) Prairie Miller A tautly crafted but deeply misogynistic and anti-workingclass French psychological thriller.
Posted Jul 07, 2007  Edit critic review
Farewell to Raskolnikov's (2005) Prairie Miller Novel Romance stands out for its memorable defiant, take-no-male-prisoners fiery female rant that peppers the script, at least initially.
Posted Jul 05, 2007  Edit critic review
Cashback (2006) Prairie Miller Considering the entire uneventful and unpleasant proceedings, 'cash back' may have been the worst highly suggestive choice of title possible for the audience to contemplate.
Posted Jul 03, 2007  Edit critic review
Sweet Land (2005) Prairie Miller The son of an Egyptian immigrant, the Minnesota born Selim demonstrates a startling intimacy and empathy for his characters, but infuses his story with a candid tough love for their weaknesses.
Posted Jul 03, 2007  Edit critic review
No. 2 (2006) Prairie Miller As usual, it's always up to the small budget indies to act as a corrective to Hollywood misperceptions and misconceptions, in this case the longstanding stereotypical depiction of elders.
Posted Jul 01, 2007  Edit critic review
In Search of Mozart (2006) Prairie Miller A concurrent glimpse of the transformation of the artist in the days of early capitalism, into a free agent on an uncertain quest for commissions, as music was inevitably morphing into a commodity like everything else.
Posted Jun 27, 2007  Edit critic review
My Best Friend (2006) Prairie Miller Ultimately, Leconte as a storyteller seems as lost and perplexed in his search for the existence and essence of true friendship in a formidably overwhelming commercially permeated and dominated world, as his unfortunate protagonist Francois.
Posted Jun 25, 2007  Edit critic review
Fun With Dick and Jane (2005) Prairie Miller The downward mobility of the middle class straight to the poverty level, or crime often not as evil, but rather economic desperation, are plot points hardly likely to sit well with those who control this economy and profit from it.
Posted Jun 23, 2007  Edit critic review
Violette (1978) Prairie Miller Though the film tends to follow the trajectory of surface events and not delve deeper into either psychological motivations or historical influences, Chabrol's moody flourishes and storytelling tapestry are never less than mesmerizing.
Posted Jun 20, 2007  Edit critic review
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