The Village Voice, November 29th, 2006
The Architect
Directed by Matt Tauber
Magnolia Pictures
Opens December 1
Built to Spill
Middle-class malaise meets inner-city despair in The Architect
BY ELLA TAYLOR
The actress Viola Davis has carved, handsome features and a tenacious stare that brooks no inattention. Though Davis's implacable integrity has for the most part saved her from the hooker-in-the-'hood roles that confine so many black actresses, she has yet to climb out of the prison of dignified maids and resilient inner-city mothers, except in the three movies she's made with Steven Soderbergh. She was the quietly observan...
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