REVIEW: The Raven Makes a Po' Case for Poe
James McTeigue's The Raven, a thriller set in Baltimore during the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, is a handsome-looking…
REVIEW: Safe Plays It Too Safe — and Wastes Jason Statham
In movie terms, Jason Statham is a man without a country, an actor who fits so conveniently into a certain kind of movie that…
REVIEW: Richard Linklater's Bernie Paints an Opaque Portrait of a Happy-Go-Lucky Killer
Can a person really be charming enough to get away with murder? Especially if the victim is a super-beeyotch to begin with…
REVIEW: The Moth Diaries Tickles More Than It Bites, But Doesn't Skimp on the Dreamy…
Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries is appropriately titled in more ways than one: Groups of the fluttering, flittery creatures make a…
REVIEW: Epic Marley Revels in the Life, Music and Secrets of Bob Marley
The best documentaries tell you more than you think you'd ever want to know about a subject, perhaps fulfilling a curiosity you…
REVIEW: Diane Keaton Loses Her Dog — and the Plot — in Darling Companion
There's too much people and not enough dog in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, and even if you prefer people to dogs, that's…
REVIEW: The Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges Mixes the Cerebral and the Silly, with Lots of…
Bobby and Peter Farrelly's The Three Stooges is not particularly great, though it is possibly brilliant, a picture that goes…
REVIEW: Pablo Larraín's Post Mortem Feels Around for the Feeble Pulse of Love, or of a…
In the States, at least, it may seem odd to make a bitterly funny movie about glum working people caught in the crossfire of…
REVIEW: Popes Are People Too in Nanni Moretti's We Have a Pope
In the '70s New York Magazine ran occasional contests, in one case asking readers to submit greeting cards for unlikely…
REVIEW: Sex Is Messy — Even Without Pie — in American Reunion
It ought to be no fun watching characters you came to know as randy, unruly high school students turn into grown-ups with jobs…
REVIEW: Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress Drowns in Coyness
Damsels in Distress is Whit Stillman's first film in 14 years: For those keeping track at home, that's the equivalent of three…
REVIEW: Mirror Mirror Dazzles with Color, Wit and Just the Right Amount of Wickedness
There's plenty of spectacle in movies these days; it's delight that's in short supply, and Tarsem Singh's Mirror Mirror offers…
REVIEW: Hockey Comedy Goon Doesn't Sermonize About Violence, And That's a Good Thing
Michael Dowse's hockey comedy Goon is crude, violent and deeply enjoyable. It also offers the chance to see Liev Schreiber — a…
REVIEW: Bully 'Raises Awareness' About Bullying — But Is That Enough?
The schoolyard bully may be a stock character, a cliché, but in the world of Lee Hirsch's earnest documentary Bully, he's very…
REVIEW: Abel Ferrara's 4:44 Last Day on Earth — Apocalyptic Howler or Love Letter to NYC?
If you happen to live in a neighborhood with no Jehovah's Witness ladies around to remind you that we're living in the last days…
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