REVIEW: Straw Dogs Remake Trades Edgy Complexity For Genre Schlock
As I've mentioned, I've never been the type to get hives over the remake announcements that seem to crop up in the trades every other day, or who feels that a bad redo…
REVIEW: Lion King 3D Makes Refreshing Use of Extra Dimension
The Disney Digital 3D™ification of The Lion King for its theatrical re-release, a limited run meant to herald the arrival of new Blu-ray and 3-D Blu-ray editions like a…
REVIEW: Midlife Crisis Meets Ménage à Trois in 3
2011 is turning out to be a strong year for what can only be awkwardly summarized as films about aging hipster couples. That's dire, dismissive-sounding shorthand for…
REVIEW: I Don't Know How She Does It Has Plenty of Fear and Loathing to Go Around
The title phrase of I Don't Know How She Does It is lobbed repeatedly at intrepid working mom heroine Kate Reddy (Sarah Jessica Parker, who also provides a Sex and the…
REVIEW: Limp, Clueless Bucky Larson is No Bright Shining Star
It's not like Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star aspires to be Citizen Kane, or Monty Python and the Holy Grail or even Wedding Crashers. All it wants to be is a silly…
REVIEW: Contagion Treats Star-Studded Pandemic With Stone-Cold Tension
[Minor early spoilers may follow, particularly for anyone who's avoided Contagion's trailer or coverage from Venice. -- Ed.]No one is safe in Contagion -- not from the…
REVIEW: Colin Firth's Southern Accent the Least of Main Street's Problems
At first glance, the formidable cast of Main Street appears to have gathered for a chance to work off the final original script from Horton Foote, the Pulitzered…
REVIEW: Slow, Ridiculous Apollo 18 is Found Footage Horror Done Wrong
When they work, found footage films are testaments to the power of a limited perspective. Features like The Blair Witch Project, REC and Cloverfield get juice out of the…
REVIEW: Good-Enough Shark Night 3D Delivers Dumb, Rowdy Summer Swan Song
To answer the question that occurred to many when the golden-hued trailer for Shark Night 3D was first unveiled -- yes, the sun does eventually set on the film's hapless…
REVIEW: Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier Play Workplace Power Games in Love Crime
An executive and an underling are working late in a plushly appointed living room at the start of Love Crime, a twisty French drama about office competition and revenge…
REVIEW: Deep Cast Can't Make The Debt Pay Off
No one comes out looking good in The Debt, a grim thriller from director John Madden: Not the Nazi purveyor of concentration camp atrocities, which is a given, but not…
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