Michelle Orange

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REVIEW: Witty, Good-Looking Mars Needs Moms Plays it a Little Too Safe With Story

True fact: I've never seen an episode of Star Trek, or any of the original franchise's spin-offs onto screens large and small. And yet even I am aware of the episode…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Beastly, Despite Its Heartthrob Stars, Is Hardly Pretty

A teen-idol vehicle with the ultimate aim of leaving the young misses combusting in the aisles, Beastly takes little care with its task, dumping gasoline and gun powder…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Frat House Hijinks Hit a New Low in Brotherhood

Stuff goes wrong in Brotherhood. Shit gets real, bottoms drop out, worse comes to worst and then some. Crowded with incident and untroubled by character, the film is an…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Loose, Goofy Charm Anchors Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

One of the potential upsides of a formula-driven franchise is a product finding a level of comfort and confidence in being exactly what it is. Big Macs, Gap T-shirts…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Let's Just Shoot I Am Number Four Back Into Space, OK?

Anyone who has ever been a child or played with one is familiar with the narrative universe of I Am Number Four, a teen alien/superhero/savior/vampire mash-up that's all…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Carancho Delivers Sleek, Stirring Argentine Noir

For the first long stretch of Pablo Trapero's Carancho, the camera swerves and wends behind, around and in front of its subjects, brokering space and mapping their…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Flickers of Comic Life Can't Survive Deeply Crappy Just Go With It

There is something to be said for knowing what to expect, or there can be. Just Go With It, Adam Sandler's latest brand vehicle, opens with a flashback to a Long Island…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Characters Can't Quite Connect Amid the City-Symphony Elegance of Mumbai Diaries

Set amid the stark dualities of the new Bombay, Mumbai Diaries follows four characters whose lives suggest the various ways one can experience what writer Suketu Mehta…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Genre Confusion Makes For Hard-to-Watch Dilemma

The Dilemma, Ron Howard's cheerless, would-be relationship farce, begins with two couples around a dinner table and ends with two men running into each other's arms…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Helen Hunt, Ensemble Deal With Every Day Struggles

Garrett, the crass, crabby showrunner played by Eddie Izzard in Every Day, has a refrain meant to inspire the stable of television writers who script his Gray's…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Gwyneth Paltrow Weighs the Price of Fame in Jumbled But Heartfelt Country Strong

Perhaps only hip hop rivals country music in its obsession with authenticity. The mainstream reckoned with both genres in the 1990s, and in the fallout some purist…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Mike Leigh Grapples with Life's Big -- and Small -- Questions in Another Year

The nod to structure in Another Year, Mike Leigh's latest rumpled, rambling character study, frames it with a gentle irony. A social portraitist known for his regional…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Gulliver's Travels Is Silly, Sweet and Not Too Oversized

Lilliputian light and unconcerned about it, Gulliver's Travels clears enough antic elbow room for its liberal adaptation of Jonathan Swift's classic novel to do its…

7 years ago

Michelle Orange's Top 10 Films of 2010

Asking what films I've seen recently is a good way to wipe my brain clean. Once, in a job interview where it was clear the answer would determine my fate, all I could…

7 years ago

REVIEW: Meet Little Fockers, the Threequel from Hell

I'm not saying the legacy of Meet the Parents deserved the protection of cinematic landmark status. But it does seem like a shame that what was there to protect has been…

7 years ago

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