REVIEW: The Innkeepers Seeks to Reinvent the Ghost Story by Sheer Force of Ambition
The heroes and heroines of old-fashioned ghost-story flicks resemble the average horror fan more closely than any other of the…
REVIEW: Genre-bound War Picture The Front Line Still Offers a Few Startling Moments
South Korea's 2012 contender for a foreign language Oscar feels more like a war movie than a movie about the Korean war, right up…
REVIEW: Don't Go in the Woods — Unless You're Up for Something Cheap, Cheerful and Seemingly…
If horror movies have taught us anything, it's that you can lead teenagers to a big red sign that reads "DON'T GO IN THE WOODS,"…
REVIEW: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Builds a Slow-Moving But Visually Potent Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Tectonic pacing builds to a series of imperceptible and yet earth-moving moments in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon a Time in…
The Ides of March, The Artist and Other Moviegoing Let-Downs of 2011
The key to a list of moviegoing disappointments is the element of expectation: I am prepared to say I watched more suicidally bad…
Country Strong, Final Destination and Other Noteworthy Surprises of 2011
Surprises too are often tied to expectation, or lack of it. The first film I saw in 2011 surprised me in part because it was the…
REVIEW: Glenn Close Explores Female Sexual Repression in Dowdy, Unfinished-Feeling Albert Nobbs
All of the characters in Albert Nobbs, a mild and mildly stirring adaptation of the George Moore short story, are dreamers. Employees in a mid-19th century Dublin inn…
REVIEW: The Song Remains the Same — Excruciating — in Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
The billion-dollar Alvin and the Chipmunks film franchise, which turns three this Christmas with Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, is not coy about its M.O., which…
REVIEW: Corman's World Lovingly Sketches the Inner Life of a Movie Maverick
Director, producer and distributor Roger Corman's world seems suspended between magnetic poles: At true north he could be described as the godfather of independently…
REVIEW: I Melt With You Mires Male Midlife Crisis in Overstyled Silliness
Perhaps it's fitting that talking about I Melt With You means talking about all the things it tries -- and fails -- to be. The story of a boom-and-bust weekend shared by…
REVIEW: The Lady Flubs Its Chance to Tell the Story of Aung San Suu Kyi
There's something immobile at the center of The Lady, a kind of Botoxed biopic with an unlikely director -- Luc Besson -- manning the syringe. Technically, that…
REVIEW: Arthur Christmas Overrides Ugly Digital Animation with Charm, Wit and Verve
To dispatch with the pleasantries and get straight to the but: Arthur Christmas favors the late-century style of computer animation that turns characters into smooth…
REVIEW: The Lie Explores the Self-Defeat of Committing by Halves — But Only By Half
First-time director Joshua Leonard's The Lie stretches the truth of its source material -- an obsidian fragment from author T.C. Boyle, published by the New Yorker in…
REVIEW: Overstyled Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life Fumbles Singer-Songwriter's Myth
The bold, relatively brief life of Serge Gainsbourg, the French singer, songwriter and svengali who died in 1991, is twice removed from the story told by Gainsbourg: A…
REVIEW: Zoe Saldana, Colombiana Impress With Crisp, Eye-Popping Action
Shamelessly entertaining when it's not just silly, Colombiana begins with a young girl trading one shady underworld for another. The first is that of Bogotá in 1992…
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