REVIEW: Whimsical Micmacs Not as Ingenious as it Thinks
In the hands of filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet, whimsy is practically an automatic assault weapon. That doesn't mean his pictures aren't sometimes inspired. At their best…
REVIEW: Kitsch Overload, Sparse Laughs Weigh Down MacGruber
Every era has its excesses, its mullets, its chunky removable car cassette players, its Quarterflash. But MacGruber, the feature-length comedy adapted from the strange…
REVIEW: Holy Rollers Blinks in Its Glimpse at Unseen World
The Hasidic community is mysterious to outsiders, and for good reason. This isn't a group that reaches out to strangers, preferring to keep themselves isolated in their…
REVIEW: Bracing John Rabe Revisits the Horror and Drama of Nanking
It's hard to know why movies that tell completely made-up stories often feel more real than those that tell true ones. Maybe it's because fictionalized versions of…
REVIEW: Leading Ladies Lift Lovely Letters to Juliet
Gary Winick's Letters to Juliet is such a gentle romantic comedy that it barely feels like a romantic comedy at all, at least not in the way we currently define the…
REVIEW: Ugly, Interminable Robin Hood Steals From Audiences
In days of yore, the myth of Robin Hood was embodied by brave and noble men: Douglas Fairbanks outwitting the king's thugs by sliding down the length of a slippery…
REVIEW: Ken Loach Has Oppressive Fun with Soccer Pic Looking for Eric
Few filmmakers are as achingly earnest in their political views, and as deeply in touch with the soul of the proletariat, as Ken Loach is. If only we could just admire…
REVIEW: Follow the Money (and the Intrigue) in Gibney's Casino Jack
Early in his documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, filmmaker Alex Gibney shares an e-mail he received from super-corrupt superstar lobbyist Jack…
REVIEW: Babies Just Cute (and Brief) Enough to Enjoy
Babies! Who doesn't love babies? Babies who mistake their own feet for foreign objects; babies who ride through the town like pashas in their armored strollers; babies…
REVIEW: Overstuffed Iron Man 2 Needs More Downey, Less Dazzle
For a movie about a guy in a metal suit, the first Iron Man moved with surprising grace and a minimum of clanking. Jon Favreau, who'd never directed a superhero action…
REVIEW: Michael Caine Gets Violent, Mesmerizing Showcase in Harry Brown
Near the beginning of English director Daniel Barber's Harry Brown, a woman pushing a baby stroller is first terrorized, then shot dead, by a couple of cracked-out…
REVIEW: Strong Performances, Superb Direction Lift Please Give
Nicole Holofcener has made only four movies in the course of her approximate 15-year directing career, but that could be because each movie is really two in one: There's…
REVIEW: Brendan Fraser Survives Goofy, Crass Furry Vengeance
In Furry Vengeance, a real-estate developer played by Brendan Fraser, faced with the unpleasant prospect of chopping down a protected forest just to keep his boss happy…
REVIEW: Smoldering Saldana Can't Save Cartoonish Losers
In the first 10 minutes of The Losers, a helicopter loaded with cheerful Bolivian children crashes in the jungle after being struck by a U.S. missile obviously bent on…
REVIEW: J-Lo's Back-Up Plan Tragically Stillborn
The act of giving life to another human being is one of the great wonders of the human experience. Watching a movie that sucks the life out of you? Not so much…
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