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After a few epic-size Hollywood films (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven), director Steven Soderbergh has gone small. Full Frontal, his terrific new movie, is intimate and innovative. It boasts rules of Dogma-like rigor: the budget was $2 million; the shoot took just three weeks; most of it was photographed (by the director) on video; the stars were responsible for their own makeup; no limos or trailers were allowed. He also constructed a Chinese box of a film-within-a-film-within-a-film. The result is his liveliest experiment since the strenuously weird Schizopolis six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Swim in Lake Me | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...tale of articulate people with the gift of hurting the ones they care about, Full Frontal reminds viewers that there's room for stories about grownups--their wayward loves; their career blips; their relation to the media maw; their takes on race, pets, outsize vibrators and Brad Pitt--told with inventive wit in a dozen distinctive voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Swim in Lake Me | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

There's a taut grandeur to Full Frontal, in part because Julia the box-office queen is encased in an ensemble cast of attractive, accomplished actors. And mainly because Hough recombines devious devices of old melodrama and comedy: the love (or hate) letter left to be discovered, two sisters involved in shady dalliances in separate rooms at the same hotel. Hough wraps this all in brittle wit; imagine the coolest cocktail conversation, then put it in a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Swim in Lake Me | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...Steven Spielberg--who also shows up in Goldmember. Men in Black II enlists Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart--aha, they are aliens! In Mr. Deeds, Al Sharpton delivers a rappin' elegy and John McEnroe teaches Adam Sandler how to (mis)behave in New York City. Steven Soderbergh's Full Frontal features bits by Brad Pitt and his Se7en director David Fincher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hey, Was That Gwyneth? | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...with a tricolor mohawk, setting off a trend picked up by Turkey's Umit Davala and the U.S.'s Clint Mathis. Ziege had the good sense to shave it off after a couple of games?the others didn't. Dishonorable Mention: Brazilian Ronaldo's new tufted frontal-lobe look, as gauche as his silver boots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Final Tally | 7/1/2002 | See Source »

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