REVIEW: Ed Helms Serves Up Meager Heartland Yuks in Cedar Rapids
Where would indie cinema be without the hopes and dreams and peccadilloes of the little people? In their ordinary fleece pullovers and loud ties? Miguel Arteta's alleged…
REVIEW: Aaron Katz's Cold Weather Wants to Have a Plot, and Almost Does
No filmmaker wants to be lumped in with the Mumblecore movement anymore, and for good reason: The problem with the pictures made by the likes of Joe Swanberg, Andrew…
REVIEW: Sanctum Wasn't Directed by James Cameron, But It's Dumb Enough to Seem So
In the interest of scientific exploration, I offer a few random dialogue samples from the 3-D cavediveapalooza survival adventure Sanctum: "Life's not a dress rehearsal…
REVIEW: Waiting for Forever Isn't Over Soon Enough
I generally feel there's no need to beat up on a modestly budgeted, small-release movie that's never going to pack 'em in at the multiplex. But I'm making an exception…
REVIEW: Gregg Araki's Kaboom Is the End of the World As We Know It, and We Feel Fine
Gregg Araki's Kaboom may be the most cheerful movie ever made about the impending apocalypse, a picture in which bed-hopping young people live each day as if it were its…
REVIEW: The Rite Is a Super-Serious Movie About a Hottie in a Cassock (and It's Not Anthony Hopkins)
I was a wee girl in Catholic school when The Exorcist was released, and the nuns stood before us with a stern admonishment: The Vatican -- or just someone in a dress and…
REVIEW: Jason Statham Keeps the Gears Going in The Mechanic, But Barely
What if, as if in a dream, Donald Sutherland appeared before you -- the Donald Sutherland of today, silver-fox handsome and turning a throwaway role into something rich…
REVIEW: Actions Speak Louder Than Dirty Words in No Strings Attached
It's a noble thing to make a movie that tries to capture the way real people speak. But how do you know how close you're getting? And even when you put raunchy turns of…
REVIEW: The Company Men Offers a Rare Portrait of the Working -- and the Nonworking -- World
Before Hollywood discovered it could reap huge profits by adapting comic books, mainstream movies used to attempt subjects that might have something to do with real…
REVIEW: Danish Actress Paprika Steen Shines in Modest But Moving Applause
Martin Zandvliet's Applause is a small movie with modest ambitions, and accordingly, it packs only a modest emotional punch. But as a showcase for its star, the Danish…
REVIEW: The Housemaid Seduces with Shallow But Stylish Pleasures
Im Sang-soo's The Housemaid is a lush, chilly entertainment that's a little bit Hitchcock (in its wickedness and coolly composed visuals) and a little bit Sirk (in its…
If We Have to Have Red Carpets, Can We at Least Have More Alexa Chung?
People who care about fashion -- and even plenty of those who don't -- usually tune in early to the awards shows to catch the red-carpet pregame, a scary ritual…
REVIEW: Season of the Witch? More like Season of the Whatever
Season of the Witch has nothing at all to do, in theme, tone or mood, with the Donovan song of the same name. If only! No great-sounding nonsense warbling about beatniks…
REVIEW: Love Stinks -- and Gosling and Williams Shine -- in Blue Valentine
Blue Valentine is such a mannered, affected piece of filmmaking that in its early minutes, I wasn't sure I'd be able to survive it. A prematurely aged Ryan Gosling…
REVIEW: Javier Bardem Saves the Overwrought, Overmanipulative Biutiful
The latest entry from the "If it makes you feel terrible, it must be great!" school of filmmaking, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful has it all: Charming…
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