REVIEW: The Good Heart Could Use Some Fresh Blood
A grimly modern fable with a giveaway title, The Good Heart wears it modest narrative intentions -- along with just about everything else -- on its sleeve. A regulation…
REVIEW: Nifty Burly Q Sets the Burlesque Record Straight
Assembled as a rough oral history of a brief but transitional moment in American entertainment, Behind the Burly Q is as determinedly upbeat as the consummate showgirls…
REVIEW: Boogie Woogie's Art-World Satire Sails Wide of the Mark
An art-world goof with credibility and characters to burn, Boogie Woogie is that curious indie animal that combines a can't-miss cast and roaring, Altman-esque…
REVIEW: Can The Joneses Keep Up with Its Own Premise?
A fantastic concept that frays under the rigors of narrative convention, the premise of The Joneses -- a pre-fab family unit is hired to infiltrate and market to an…
REVIEW: Frantic, Fragmented Kick-Ass Brings the Overkill
Based on a 2008 Marvel comic, Kick-Ass appears to be making a preemptive bid for franchise status (the final issue of the series came out earlier this year), and its…
In Theaters: Date Night
Date Night succeeds chiefly in making the work that its two stars do on the same major television network seem anything but mainstream. NBC's primetime wonder twins Tina…
In Theaters: The Square
A sun-burnt addition to the growing line of distant noir descendants, The Square is more of a red-faced hustle through the genre's tropes than a cool-cheeked embodiment…
In Theaters: The Last Song
"I did not come here for some stupid summer romance," Miley Cyrus croaks at the midway point of The Last Song, "with some stupid local boy who's done this a thousand…
In Theaters: Clash of the Titans
In its attempt to upgrade a classic with kick-ass effects, Louis Leterrier's noisy, manic and not much fun at all Clash of the Titans saps much of the spirit of the 1981…
In Theaters: Chloe
Chloe, Atom Egoyan's ripe, psychosexual minuet, poses the infidelity thriller's founding question -- Who am I married to? -- only to leave it to molder, a red herring at…
In Theaters: Hot Tub Time Machine
To paraphrase Jason London's character in Dazed and Confused, "All I'm saying is, if I ever start referring to these as the best movies of my life -- remind me to kill…
In Theaters: The Bounty Hunter
As cold and calculating as the heart of a Hollywood accountant, The Bounty Hunter is the caper comedy that keeps on taking. I've already given it nearly two…
In Theaters: Greenberg
Another entry in Noah Baumbach's rough guide to the modern American narcissist, Roger Greenberg (Ben Stiller) is a kingdom unto himself. Terminally self-conscious and…
In Theaters: She's Out of My League
She's Out of My League is a mood piece. Lacking substance, originality, or a coherent treatment of its putative subject matter -- self-image and the defeatist…
In Theaters: Green Zone
Late into Green Zone, Paul Greengrass's gratifying if slightly garbled Hollywood treatment of the first months of the Iraq war, George Bush makes his inevitable…
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