REVIEW: New Year's Eve is the Movie Equivalent of a Plastic-Wrapped American Cheese Slice
Who are these beautiful, sharply dressed, slightly orange people gliding so effortlessly through a glittery, postcard-worthy version of New York in New Year's Eve…
REVIEW: Jonah Hill, The Sitter Offer (Mostly) Inoffensive, Forgettable Fun
Having begun his career as American independent film's great hope with delicate, languid features like George Washington and All the Real Girls, David Gordon Green has…
REVIEW: Dane Cook Is the Most Sympathetic Presence in Answers to Nothing, Which Tells You a Lot
Movies with multiple intersecting storylines aren't exclusive to Los Angeles, but it's a city for which they seem ideally suited, perhaps because it's one in which…
REVIEW: When Humans Aren't On-Screen, The Muppets Achieves Pure, Distilled Joy
Can something be considered fan fiction if it's also an official, canonical studio product? I'm going to argue yes, absolutely, because with The Muppets, Jason Segel has…
REVIEW: Rid of Me Plays Rough — And is All the Better for It
Rid of Me, James Westby's scrappy dramedy about marriage, divorce and finding your inner punk rocker, begins with an act that makes flipping someone off or putting a…
REVIEW: Ellen Barkin Snarls to Life in Ruthless, Unpleasant Another Happy Day
As a general rule in the movies, dysfunction is better offered as a side dish rather than a main course, accenting what's really a story of grieving and letting go, or…
REVIEW: Tomboy Explores Loaded Gender Issues with a Delicate, Assured Touch
Céline Sciamma's film is titled Tomboy, but the gender issues it delves into are more complex than any supposedly unfeminine preferences for sports and pants-wearing and…
REVIEW: Shabby-chic Supernatural Thriller 11-11-11 So Lo-Fi It's Almost Endearing
There's something almost endearing about the creakily lo-fi quality of 11-11-11, the latest feature from Darren Lynn Bousman, director of Repo! The Genetic Opera and…
REVIEW: Immortals Wants to Be 300 So Bad It Hurts
As cool-looking, dumb and deadly serious as you could desire, Immortals openly aims to be the heir to 300, and succeeds in at least being a reasonable facsimile that…
REVIEW: Al Pacino Devours Otherwise Humorless Jack and Jill
Despite all of the grumpy and/or gleeful speculation that arose around the internet when it got its first glimpse of Adam Sandler donning a wig and falsies to play his…
REVIEW: Herzog's Best in Years, Into the Abyss Tells a Story of Grief, Horror and Resilience
There's a snag of resistance at the start of Into the Abyss, Werner Herzog's new documentary about the execution of Michael Perry, the 2001 triple homicide he was…
REVIEW: Killing Bono Tackles Fame and Failure With Mixed Comic Results
For every musical act that's made it big, there are thousands that have languished in obscurity, but when it comes to movies, it's rare that a band that comes to naught…
REVIEW: Punk-Rock Pops Doc Other F Word Good With Kids, Less So With Ideas
"You might say hey, maybe punk rock was never meant to grow up -- but it did, so too bad. We're in uncharted territory," Bad Religion's Brett Gurewitz, also the owner of…
REVIEW: Impressive Cast Mills About Listlessly in Dumb, Lumpy 13
Alfred Hitchcock and Cecil B. DeMille might have been able to successfully redo their own movies, but more recent auto-remakes, especially ones that find directors…
REVIEW: The Double Chokes on Cold-War Tropes, Gere-Grace Mismatch
The Double shows its cards right away, when the screen fills with a cable news show on which a congressman insists "Russia's back!," noting that the country has…
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