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REVIEW: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Runs the Show in Flimsy Hesher

One of the two interesting questions posed in Hesher is whether the title character of Spencer Susser's aggro stomp through the seven stages of grief is beyond metaphor…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Small-Town '80s Nostalgia Highlights the Easygoing Skateland

Cultivating a longing for a time one didn't live through is nostalgia's version of unrequited love. The result is pure, unfiltered by memory, uncolored by…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Will Ferrell Flexes His Indie Muscle in Everything Must Go

In the first scenes of Everything Must Go, a lightly sketched study of a man stripped to his possessions, Nick Halsey (Will Ferrell) loses his job and finds his home…

7 years ago

REVIEW: There Be Dragons Has Fascists, Sinners and a Hot Hungarian, But No Dragons

There Be Dragons screened early in the morning following the president's midnight announcement that Osama bin Laden had been, to use a phrase adopted by the movies as…

7 years ago

REVIEW: In-Laws, and Caricatures, Clash in Jumping the Broom

Wedding season has arrived, taffeta skirts swishing, which means wedding movie season is making its stilted march close behind. Like a cannon shot of confetti in the…

7 years ago

Michelle Orange's 5 Most Anticipated Summer Movies of 2011

Movieline's Summer Preview continues with the season's most anticipated films from critic Michelle Orange: (more…)

7 years ago

REVIEW: Sweet, Nonthreatening Prom Wears Its Crown Modestly

On a recent Saturday, Disney held a special screening of Prom, an off-the-rack omnibus story centered on the sacred, American, adolescent rite of passage. I realized…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Madea Ready for Retirement in Madea's Big Happy Family

Writing about certain of Tyler Perry's movies feels more like filing a witness report. Behind the veil of tears and near-pornographic melodrama, For Colored Girls…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Ghost Story? Noir? Romance? The Double Hour Keeps You Guessing

Bodies drop around Sonia (Ksenia Rappoport) from the first scene of The Double Hour, Giuseppe Capotondi's elliptical neo-noir. Whether she's being stalked by death or is…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Vulgarity Trumps Talent in Your Highness

A medieval genre goof of impressive physical scale and disproportionately modest comic ambitions, as an entertainment animal, Your Highness is disappointing where it…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Blank City Overexplains NYC's Late-'70s DIY Scene, with Great Footage

In Blank City, a discursive oral history of New York's DIY film scene in the late 1970s and 1980s, Lydia Lunch says she doesn't the mind the "No Wave" moniker coined to…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Smart, Sensitive Trust Explores the Awful Human Truths Behind Online Seduction

Trust is the rare film that feels longer than its 106 minutes without having exceeded its narrative limits or strained the viewer's patience. Patience is one of the few…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Insidious Goes for Old-Fashioned Scares But Raises Only the Odd Goosebump

Kids in the movies these days: When it's not their disappearance, illness, or untimely death tearing a family to pieces, it's the discovery that they've been dabbling in…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Affable Win Win Keeps the Fighting Spirit When 'Work, Money, Everything' Is the Problem

Warmly observed and solicitous of its audience to the point of caress, Win Win is as comfortable an experience at the movies as you might have this year. Writer and…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Supershaky Battle: Los Angeles Raises the Question: Could Your Mom Do Better with an iPhone?

The equilibrium-punishing visual style of the alien apocalypse flick Battle: Los Angeles suggests two possibilities to me, the first being that budgetary restrictions…

7 years ago

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