REVIEW: Feel-Bad Inhale Bashes Viewer, Protagonist on Nose Over Organ Tourism
Americans find foreign places scary and believe dying and/or missing children to be the height of human tragedy. The above opinions are widely held in Iceland, a…
REVIEW: Punching the Clown Tackles the Lonely Life of a Singing Comedian
The singing comedian is a rarefied niche, not much seen since the last days of vaudeville and the decline of the candy-gram. The potential flipside of nichehood…
REVIEW: Massachusetts Gothic Conviction Spreads an Epic Story Too Thin
On paper Conviction, the true story of a young man wrongly imprisoned for murder and his sister's 18-year quest to set him free, can't really lose. Director Tony Goldwyn…
REVIEW: Prestige Cast Narrowly Saves Red From Its Own Tacky Taste
A decadent action romp that isn't quite as fun as it should be, Red mixes high and low with a mad chemist's abandon. Although the picture invokes the popcorn pleasures…
REVIEW: Fine Performances Can't Bring Stone to Life
I left Stone, a dreary pseudo-noir starring Robert De Niro as a parole officer and Ed Norton as an inmate angling for release, wondering both what happened -- I know it…
REVIEW: Inside Job Looks Under the Hood of the Financial Crisis and Finds Nothing Pretty
The press notes for Inside Job, Charles Ferguson's debilitating cross-section of the financial crisis, include a glossary of the exotic terms used within. The inclusion…
REVIEW: Life As We Know It Features Cute Baby, Un-cute Grown-ups
A poorly conceived blind date is what brings Holly (Katherine Heigl) and Messer (Josh Duhamel) together, and an equally unsatisfying date movie plays out the weird…
REVIEW: Nowhere Boy Captures Some Elusive Truths About the Young John Lennon
A scene from the trenches: Two exhibitors are talking shop at grating volume in the screening room where a showing of Nowhere Boy is running 15 dastardly minutes late…
REVIEW: Lurid, Ludicrous Subtext Makes Case 39 More Fun Than You Might Think
This morning Case 39 snuck into theaters, and I snuck in right behind it. (What's up, one other guy in the theater?) When a studio -- in this case Paramount -- shelves a…
REVIEW: Exposing 'the Hidden Side of Everything,' Freakonomics Spreads Itself Too Thin
A turbulent attempt to turn a 2003 jumbo bestseller of pop socio-economics into a pot-stirring documentary, Freakonomics features six great directors and one unhelpfully…
REVIEW: Execrable You Again Tests the 5 Stages of Moviegoer Grief
Infinitely worse than you dared to hope it wouldn't be, You Again dumbfounded and then defeated me. That's a pretty limited spectrum of response, and yet I left the film…
REVIEW: Ambitious Waiting For Superman Tries to Make Sense of School-Lottery Issues
Two or three documentaries about the Unites States' totally FUBAR education system ago, I recall a school administrator saying that he no longer attends the lotteries…
REVIEW: Howl Gives Allen Ginsberg's Funky Genius the Collage Treatment
Filmmakers feel an understandable urge to rise to the occasion when committing the lives of '60s saints and mold-busting mavericks like Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg to…
REVIEW: You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger Is Minor Woody Allen, But Still Makes Some Noise
In a recent interview, Woody Allen was asked to explain (or was it defend?) his prodigious output: roughly one movie written and directed a year since 1969. Part of the…
REVIEW: Ben Affleck Narrowly Misses Greatness with The Town
As cool and straight an entertainment shot as his brother's recent directing debut was pyrotechnically scattered, Ben Affleck's The Town has got bangs, bucks and the…
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