REVIEW: Splice Blends High and Low In Terrific Horror Trip
The first look we get at Clive and Elsa, the rock-and-roll gene cutters at the center of Splice, is from the perspective of the biogenetic blob they have just coaxed…
REVIEW: Marmaduke Slobbers its Way to Kid-Flick Mediocrity
The big-screen comic adaptation no one was waiting for, Marmaduke has arrived, and all the questions you never had are answered at last: Is Marmaduke still a hilariously…
REVIEW: A Bogeyman Gets His Close-Up in Cropsey
"What do you have to say to the Staten Island community?" a reporter asks accused child murderer Andre Rand about halfway through Cropsey, an absorbing and openly…
REVIEW: Agora Strains to Keep Up With Its Own Staggering Vision
Handsome to look at and driven by a passionate -- if not exactly precise -- political sensibility, Agora is this spring's highest-brow sandal epic, by an Egyptian cubit…
REVIEW: Father of My Children Brims With Daring and Confidence
A bisected portrait of two families -- one small and thriving, one sprawling and dysfunctional -- both headed by the same, charming man, The Father of My Children…
REVIEW: Survival of the Dead Devoured by Too Many Unanswered Questions
During the torture-porn heyday, zombie maestro George A. Romero issued a curt but cutting assessment of the trend: "I don't get [them]. They're lacking metaphor." Coming…
REVIEW: Shrek Forever After a Witty, Fitting Franchise Finale
That the Shrek films have always had one eye firmly on the chaperones -- regularly casting clever asides, storybook mash-ups, and classic rock riffs into their corner -…
REVIEW: Jim Broadbent, Cillian Murphy Anchor Eccentric Perrier's Bounty
Loose, flinty, and a little in love with itself, Perrier's Bounty struts the fine line of self-consciousness drawn by neo-gangster capers like The Usual Suspects, In…
REVIEW: Michael Douglas's Solitary Man More Shocking Than Interesting
Public humblings are a risky maneuver, whether engineered by politicians, tycoons, athletes or movie stars: Nothing less than abject vulnerability will do, and the…
REVIEW: Hypnotic, Stop-Motion Metropia Misses the Bigger Picture
Dark and queer enough to catch your attention but lacking the story power to hold it, Metropia is an aesthetic in search of an author. The first animated feature from…
REVIEW: Choppy Filmmaking Sabotages Star Chemistry Just Wright
Testing the versatility of Queen Latifah's appeal has become something of a cultural, platform-hopping pastime: Hip hop artist, jazz singer, sitcom star, talk and awards…
REVIEW: Flimsy Princess Kaiulani Serves Up Hawaiian History Lite
Designed to be both essential history lesson and costume weeper, Princess Kaiulani comes up short on both fronts: Deadly earnest intentions and lack of dramatic gumption…
REVIEW: Rookie Jitters, Half-Assed '70s Sink Multiple Sarcasms
Another candy-apple red ride to the Mid-Life Crisis Invitational, Multiple Sarcasms is the antsy family man of indie films: Taking its capable, under-seen cast for…
REVIEW: Garbage-Sexing Evil Comes to Life in Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers
Conceived as a kind of found object -- a tossed-off VHS tape courtesy of your local freak patrol -- Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers is a feature-length viral video, a…
REVIEW: Superb Cast Salvages Bland Mother and Child
A women's picture in a mold that's more and more idiosyncratically his own, with Mother and Child Rodrigo Garcia (Nine Lives) poses a number of intriguing questions…
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