REVIEW: Biggest Miracle of All — the Actual Whales — Overlooked in Big Miracle
There's a big old mammal heart beating softly but steadily at the center of Big Miracle, which recounts the true story of how, in…
REVIEW: Super-Preposterous Man on a Ledge At Least Has Crazy Confidence on Its Side
It's so hard to find a reasonably enjoyable thriller these days that anything with a marginally intriguing premise and fewer than…
REVIEW: The Grey Is a Howl of Existential Pain, with Some Action Thrown In
Wolves, like most animals, know a lot of things that humans don't. When bad white men move onto their turf to do bad white-man…
REVIEW: French Import Declaration of War Examines Couplehood in the Face of Cancer, with Mixed…
Parts of Valérie Donzelli's Declaration of War, which details a young couple's struggle to keep their lives together in the face…
REVIEW: Red Tails Blunders Through a Potentially Great Story, with Action and Derring-do to Spare
There are instances when reviewing intentions would be so much easier than reviewing actual movies, and Red Tails, which was…
REVIEW: Gina Carano Takes No Prisoners in Wickedly Entertaining Haywire
The brilliant haute spy character Modesty Blaise – created by British author Peter O'Donnell in 1963 and kept alive, through…
REVIEW: No Ifs or Ands, But Lots of Butts in Frederick Wiseman's Delightful Crazy Horse
One of the most fascinating and intimate moments in Frederick Wiseman's Crazy Horse, a peek behind the shimmery veil of Paris's…
REVIEW: Sing Your Song Doesn't Need to Tease Greatness Out of Harry Belafonte — It's Already…
It takes at least two things to make a terrific documentary: A great subject and a light but deft touch. Susanne Rostock's Sing…
REVIEW: Béatrice Dalle Plays an Alcoholic Mathematician Sexpot in Domain — So What Are You Waiting…
It's hard to say whether Patric Chiha's unabashedly out-there drama Domain is actually good or whether it simply nuzzles very…
REVIEW: Queen Latifah, Dolly Parton Can't Cut Through the Static of Joyful Noise
The idea of seeing Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton in a movie together, not to mention a movie about a gospel choir, is a…
REVIEW: Meticulous Murakami Adaptation Norwegian Wood Does Everything Right, and Still, We Snooze
Tran Anh Hung's Norwegian Wood is meticulously faithful to the book it's based on, Haruki Murakami's 1987 novel of the same name…
REVIEW: John Mellencamp: It's About You Is a Bumpy, But Believably Human, Scrapbook of a Doc
John Mellencamp: It's About You isn't really about you, or me, or even about John Mellencamp, the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who…
REVIEW: Unvarnished Iranian Family Drama A Separation Doesn't Go for Easy Answers
The filmmaking in Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is so spare and unfussy that, save for the occasional camera…
REVIEW: Bad Mummy! The Iron Lady Oversimplifies — and Sucks Up To — Margaret Thatcher
Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep work a puny bit of flim-flammery in The Iron Lady: They turn Margaret Thatcher into a folk hero…
The Artist, Tinker, Midnight in Paris: Stephanie's Top 10 Movies of 2011
And so my most-favorite, least-favorite task of the year rolls around again. I never call it a "10 best" list -- meaning the…
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