REVIEW: Rachel Weisz Shines Through the Contemplative Dankness of The Deep Blue Sea
There are so few filmmakers willing to tackle the romantic melodrama these days that Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea is…
REVIEW: Jennifer Lawrence Hits Her Mark in Surprisingly Unflashy Hunger Games
Movie events have become deadly little things, highly mechanized gadgets thrown by studio marketing departments into an…
REVIEW: Jeff, Who Lives at Home Finds Moments of Grace Amid Forced Cosmic Coincidences
You have to admire the chutzpah, if not necessarily the filmmaking skills, of Jay and Mark Duplass, the duo behind the…
REVIEW: 21 Jump Street Is Half Brilliant, Half a Mess, But Tatum and Hill Shine
There's a peculiar kind of pleasure to be found in watching Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, in 21 Jump Street, horsing around and…
REVIEW: The Dardennes' The Kid with a Bike May Not Move So Fast, But Its Young Star Sure Does
In strict dramatic terms, almost nothing occurs in the Dardenne brothers' The Kid with a Bike. Some characters show a lack of…
REVIEW: John Carter's Soulful, Pulpy Majesty Breaks Through Big-Budget Gloss
I had fun at John Carter. Just not $250 million worth of fun, which leads us to the central and vexing problem: Moviegoing…
REVIEW: There's Some Spooky Stuff in Silent House, But It's Mostly Just Arthouse Wigwaggery
Silent House is not just a horror film but a Very Important Piece of Social Commentary, as you'll see when you get to the movie's…
REVIEW: Jiro Dreams of Sushi Explores the Drive to Make Beautiful Things That Are Edible Too
Is it possible to love a piece of dead fish more than you love people? That's the question asked, implicitly if not directly, by…
REVIEW: Israeli Comedy-Drama Footnote Makes Talmudic Scholarship Seem Almost Dynamic
Sometimes a movie demands attention more for its "How" than its "What," and writer-director Joseph Cedar's Footnote falls…
REVIEW: Friends with Kids Loses Its Nerve in the End, But Does Right by Adam Scott
Jennifer Westfeldt's sort-of romantic comedy Friends with Kids is on to something, even if in the end it suffers from a failure…
REVIEW: Italian Comedy The Salt of Life Proves You Just Never Get Over It — Whatever It Is
If the teenage hedonists of Project X want to see what's in store for them in 40 years — and surely they don't — they might have…
REVIEW: Cluttered, Noisy Lorax Doesn't Speak for the Trees, or For Anyone Else
He is the Lorax, he speaks for the trees – or at least he would, if he could get a word in edgewise. Because Dr. Seuss' The…
REVIEW: There's Too Much Being and Not Enough Doing in Being Flynn
Though it's always a bad idea to review a director's intentions at the expense of the actual results, there's something about…
REVIEW: Jafar Panahi's This Is Not a Film Is a Potent Message in a Bottle
The annals of filmmaking are filled with stories of people who managed to make movies against all odds, without money, without…
REVIEW: Amanda Seyfried Makes One Crazy-Looking -- But Sympathetic -- Blythe Doll in Gone
In the vigilante fantasy Gone, Amanda Seyfried plays Jill, a young Portland woman who can't shake the memory of her abduction a…
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