Arbitrage (review)
For all the satisfying ironies that are dished up, some of what we’re served is hopelessly naive. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleLes Misérables (review)
There’s an alchemy here that brings together the best of screen and the best of stage... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleDjango Unchained (review)
Quentin Tarantino spins a dark fantasia of the pre-Civil War South that is hilarious, ferocious, shocking, and wise, sometimes all at once. (please click through for commenting, social networking,...
View ArticleWest of Memphis (London Film Festival review)
Public perception and police misconduct take well-deserved raps here, as do larger issues of American injustice... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleLife of Pi (review)
Fanciful and visually lavish, yet very grounded in human reality. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleThe Fitzgerald Family Christmas (review)
Achingly lovely, so full of bittersweet melancholy and yet so fixedly hopeful... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleJack Reacher (review)
Like a midseason episode of a basic-cable detective show you’ve never heard of. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleParental Guidance (review)
A taste of what you’re in for: Completely random “humorous” ethnic stereotyping. Crotch injury as comedic. The questioning of the masculinity of a man who is kind and gentle. Children’s toilet habits...
View ArticlePromised Land (review)
At every turn, and via a simple narrative that is so effortless it barely feels constructed at all, nothing here is quite what it seems, and everything is even more than what it is. (please click...
View ArticleZero Dark Thirty (review)
Too soon? Too soon for a kickass political action movie about the hunt for Osama Bin Laden? (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleThe Impossible (review)
It’s a disaster movie, but not as we know it... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleBarbara (review)
An odd mutedness and puzzling lack of urgency frustrate the mood of Orwellian horror... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleThe Sweeney (review)
This British attempt to ape Hollywood action movies only looks absurd, even if it does accidentally also hold up most Hollywood action movies as absurd, too... (please click through for commenting,...
View ArticleThat’s My Boy (review)
This is like the evil Mirror Universe version of Ted. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleAmour (review)
There have been other stories about longstanding love and the devotion it inspires, but none with quite the wallop of this one... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleMea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (review)
“Angry” doesn’t even begin to cover how this film makes me feel. It probably won’t cover you, either. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleFlight (review)
Appears to poke, and not kindly, at how our society enables abusers of drugs and alcohol... until it stops being that interesting. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleFalse Trail (Jägarna 2) (review)
If you’re weary of Peter Stormare’s one-dimensional Hollywood villains, here’s a chance to see him in his natural environment... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View Article5 Broken Cameras (review)
A horrific portrait of everyday life on the West Bank, yet one also powerfully warm, funny, and human... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleHow to Survive a Plague (review)
A glorious ode to the supposition that a small group of committed people can change the world, and a reminder that the work is not yet done... (please click through for commenting, social networking,...
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