3 Needles

I DVRed it off showtime a few days ago. It is broken into a few different mini-movies or stories. The first one was frustrating because it was difficult to follow and in CHINESE! I swore I'd never watch another movie where... Full review

The movie held my intrest but left me feeling if only i could understand the language, it was difficult to figure what was said. But the nuns were very enlighting to watch and lucy l was very good. Stockard Channing makes... Full review

3 Needles is not perfect, but few movies are. The cinematography is first rate, the direction is effecting at times and the performances, most especially Lucy Liu (who gives the most uncomfortable birth you have ever seen) are solid. The movie... Full review

I mean just look at the title. This movie is horrible, except for the great acting by the lady with AIDS.... Full review

If good intentions were all it took to create a decent movie, Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles" would be some kind of masterpiece. Yet the film is a disjointed humanitarian enterprise, not merely among its three acts but within the acts themselves.... Full review

This movie deals with the very real issue of HIV/AIDS pandemic spreading into the most unlikely places. The acting, by most of the actors (minus Lucy Liu), is excellent, and the cinematography is gorgeous. The use of comedy is, in my... Full review

It's a miserable film presented miserably.....Even the well-intentioned bonus documentaries come up short.....Not that this is the only reason the movie fails.....The only highlight of "3 Needles" is in its visuals, which capture vast landscapes fairly well;....What makes these movies work where "3 Needles" fails so miserably is in their characters, their drama, their humanity..... ... Full Review

If good intentions were all it took to create a decent movie, Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles" would be some kind of masterpiece.....the film's sociopolitical rancor sharply comes through.....The cast, from Olympia Dukakis and Lucy Liu to Stockard Channing, Chloë Sevigny, and Sandra Oh, is enticing.....By the last chapter, "3 Needles" has becomes a hopeless muddle, with Oh, Sevigny, and Dukakis, who narrates the entire picture....Two of the chapters end with a line of stinging dialogue about the price of a hum ... Full Review

as a satisfying movie, it never totally convinces.....The music is toe-curlingly bad, ranging from inappropriately comedic to unconvincingly sweeping.....The most intelligent aspect of the movie is.... ... Full Review

This film contains little sympathy for Republicans.....A boundlessly inventive and often blazingly funny writer, Kushner is at heart a political artist.....The film's attempt to encompass so many aspects of Kushner's whirlingly busy life, mind and heart is also its liability.....Easily the most moving story of the bunch is the final sequence, set in South Africa..... ... Full Review

Needles" is an extremely ugly film. When the old man dies, our protagonist is found out, leaving his mother Olive (Stockard Channing) with not enough income to keep their lower middle class lifestyle going, so she decides to scam the Canadian insurance industry. ... Full Review

Last night I watched a movie called 3 Needles on Showtime. The movie looked interesting enough from the short description provided by my digital cable guide, and I was pretty bored so I would take just about anything anyway. 3... ... Full Article

Editor's note: 3 Needles opened in a small number of U.S. theaters on 1 December; it is also airing on Showtime, starting tonight at 9pm ET. ... Full Article

I'm not exactly sure what to call this film. Is it a celebration of AIDS? An exposé about how heterosexuals get the disease? An attack on those who might profit from the disease, or accidentally spread it through ignorance for... ... Full Article

Three stories, which offer differing perspectives on the AIDS pandemic, are featured in this anthology-drama. Sister Clara (Chloë Sevigny) is a young nun who is working with two, more experienced, missionaries (Olympia Dukakis and Sandra Oh) in a village along... ... Full Article

At the Los Angeles Press Day for "3 Needles," MoviesOnline sat down with actress Lucy Liu to talk about her latest film directed by Thom Fitzgerald. "3 Needles" is a three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a... ... Full Article

TORONTO -- Canada's beleaguered Canadian cultural agency and film funder Telefilm Canada is unveiling an initiative at Cannes to raise the profile and marketability of Canadian features. ... Full Article