REVIEW: Exquisite Vengeance is Trademark Johnnie To
Although Hong Kong films are immensely popular among Americans, they seem to strike a chord mostly with a subset of young, eager fans. Average American moviegoers…
REVIEW: Kevin Kline Seals Extra Man's Oddball Love Letter With a Kiss
While eccentric people can be found everywhere, New York is a particularly fertile environment for all sorts of odd little flowers to bloom and grow. In The Extra Man…
REVIEW: The Joke's on the Audience in Dinner for Schmucks
The New Yorker recently ran an extremely detailed profile of Steve Carell, written by Tad Friend, that described the complex and mysterious process of, well, trying to…
REVIEW: Robert Duvall and Co. Make for Classy, Splendid Get Low
There are four great faces in Aaron Schneider's debut feature Get Low. One of them belongs to a mule -- a grumpy but elegant beast with bright eyes and mischievous…
REVIEW: Salt, Angelina Jolie Deliver the Action-Packed Summer Blockbuster Goods
Somewhere midway through Phillip Noyce's exhilarating, over-the-top yet strangely modest action-thriller Salt, Angelina Jolie, as on-the-run CIA agent Evelyn Salt, ducks…
REVIEW: Farewell, the Week's Other Spy Film, Explores Human Toll of Espionage
Farewell, a cold war drama by the French director Christian Carion, isn't just a movie set in 1981; in many ways it feels like a movie made in 1981. Unflashy and…
REVIEW: Irish Runaway Gem Kisses Could Use a Little More Polishing
There's nothing so frustrating as a small movie, made by a clearly gifted filmmaker, that flies close to magic only to be sternly jerked back to earth. Kisses, by the…
REVIEW: Is Inception This Year's Masterpiece? Dream On
If the career of Christopher Nolan is any indication, we've entered an era in which movies can no longer be great. They can only be awesome, which isn't nearly the same…
REVIEW: Nicolas Cage's Magic Can't Save Sorcerer's Apprentice
To be a sorcerer, at least in the terms outlined in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, you've got to engage most of your brain, not the measly 10 percent most of us poor average…
REVIEW: Despicable Me Delivers With Retro Zest to Spare
We've lost something now that elaborate, sophisticated full-length animated movies have become big business in Hollywood: Technical proficiency is up. But…
REVIEW: Girl Who Played with Fire Goes Through the Tiresome Swede-Goth Motions
The novels of the late Stieg Larsson are the little Saabs that could: These three posthumously published thrillers -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who…
REVIEW: Brilliant Kids Are All Right Brims with Grace, Smarts and Laughs
Lisa Cholodenko's The Kids Are All Right is such a low-key feat of filmmaking that the scope of its offhanded generosity -- toward its characters, its story, its actors…
REVIEW: A Few Nifty Visuals Can't Rescue Exhausting Last Airbender
The Last Airbender is, as M. Night Shyamalan movies go, pretty straightforward. It's also, refreshingly, not as completely idiotic as most of his movies are. No aliens…
REVIEW: Actors Might Give Up on Eclipse, But Fans Won't
It's all too tempting to look down on the Twilight movie series -- based on Stephenie Meyer's explosively popular series of novels -- as quickie pictures designed to…
REVIEW: Questions Remain in Messy, Sordid Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
The ballad of Phil Spector is sadder than any song this strange, reclusive man wrote or produced in a career spanning some 50 years. It's one thing to be a…
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