REVIEW: Farewell, My Queen Moves Slowly, But It's Got Sensuousness on Its Side
Snoozy but sumptuous, Benoît Jacquot's quasi-historical drama Farewell, My Queen isn't going to set the world aflame: The…
REVIEW: Michael Winterbottom Whisks Hardy's Tess to India with Trishna
Michael Winterbottom, one of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic filmmakers of our age, makes so many movies that some of them…
REVIEW: Blake Lively Lets Air and Light into Oliver Stone's Heavy-Handed Savages
For the first three hours and 20 minutes, I was totally with Savages. During the middle two hours and 25 minutes, I was…
REVIEW: Why Can't All Comic-Book Movies Be as Sexy as The Amazing Spider-Man?
Comic-book movies can be many things — ridiculous, entertaining, stupendously dull – but very rarely are they erotic. I'm not…
REVIEW of Ted: Stuffed with Fluff Has Never Been Better
If you've seen the red band trailer for Ted, in which Mark Wahlberg plays a grown man whose best friend is his talking teddy…
REVIEW: Don't Be Fooled By the Lousy Title! Pine, Banks and Pfeiffer Deliver in People Like Us…
To say there's nothing on the contemporary movie landscape like Alex Kurtzman's People Like Us is to suggest that the picture is…
REVIEW: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Tells the Real Story Behind the Civil War…
It's not every day you see a movie and ask yourself, "Why does this thing even exist?" But I'm truly puzzled by the existence of…
REVIEW: A Surprising Twist Steals the Show from the Heroine in Bold, Unusual Brave
Pixar is at its best when it's making movies about rats working in restaurants and families of superheroes with not-so-super…
Farewell, Andrew Sarris
I was deeply saddened yesterday to hear of the death of Andrew Sarris, a passionate critic and elegant writer who didn't just…
REVIEW: Woody Allen Blows Kisses to Rome, and Maybe Even to Us, in To Rome with Love
Before last year's wistfully joyous Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's movies had gotten so self-conscious and sour-spirited…
REVIEW: Sacrebleu! What the Hell Happens at the End of The Woman in the Fifth?
Watching a thriller requires a certain willingness to be a dupe. The whole idea is to give yourself over, and the ideal is to…
REVIEW: Tame Rock of Ages Gets a Slurpy Tongue Bath from Tom Cruise
Many of us who were alive in the 1980s claimed not to listen to heavy metal or its almost indistinguishable twin, hard rock. But…
REVIEW: See Jane Fonda Cradling Some Very Nice-Looking Chickens in Peace, Love & Misunderstanding…
Jane Fonda shows up so infrequently in movies these days that it doesn't matter if they look potentially good or dismal: Even…
REVIEW: Prometheus, Big Yet Inelegant, Groans Under Its Own Weight
People with a strong sartorial sense know the difference between what's elegant and what's merely elaborate. It's not the same in…
REVIEW: Piranha 3DD? More Like Sub-Double-A.
Because it didn't screen for critics, and because of a water-main break in the only New York theater showing the film today, it…
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