REVIEW: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close? More Like Utterly Dull and Mostly Insufferable
In 2005, when Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was published, Walter Kirn, writing in the New York Times Book Review, summed up the…
REVIEW: Gorgeous War Horse Hits Sweet Spot Between Cornball and Classic
Steven Spielberg's War Horse is masterly, accomplished, stirring, a real bang-up, show-off job -- and watching it, I kept wishing it had been made by someone else…
REVIEW: Wim Wenders's 3-D Pina Makes Its Own Joyful Dance
Now that everyone has grown tired of touting the allegedly thrilling promise of 3-D, we may have some chance of figuring out exactly what its future might be. While I…
REVIEW: The Adventures of Tintin Putt-Putts Along with a Terrier in Tow
There are times when too much of a good thing and not enough meet halfway and settle into a comfortable middle ground. That's the case with Steven Spielberg's The…
REVIEW: Fincher, Without Showing Too Much, Makes a Beguiling Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
American versions of foreign films are almost always put in the position of having to swagger onto the scene, justifying their existence almost before they even exist…
REVIEW: Brisk, Disciplined Carnage Is Good — Not Great — Polanski
In Roman Polanski's Carnage, two couples square off in a 4-way -- or is it a 48-way? -- skirmish involving parenting issues, class resentment, the self-centered nature…
REVIEW: The Material Girl Channels Wallis Simpson, and Her Stuff, in W.E.
Even though it's something of a slick mess, Madonna's W.E. is just the kind of movie you'd expect from an artist who once, with a delightful lack of irony, declared…
REVIEW: Tilda Swinton Keeps Mother-Son Horror Story We Need to Talk About Kevin on Track — Barely
If I had been working as a film critic in 1968, I would have warned pregnant women against seeing Rosemary's Baby. Today I'd say the same thing about We Need to Talk…
REVIEW: Gary Oldman Sneaks Off with One of the Year's Great Performances in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Some movies come directly to you, begging for your attention if not demanding it outright. And other movies sit still and quiet even as they hold out a hand, beckoning…
REVIEW: Fassbender, Focused Yet Unselfconscious, Makes Shame Compelling
Steve McQueen's Shame is perhaps mistitled: It's the story of a man who has sex more often than he probably wants it, though still not as often as he needs it, which is…
REVIEW: Strange, Hypnotic Sleeping Beauty Sends No Clear Message -- Thank God
When Australian writer-director Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty made its debut at Cannes last May, the responses among critics I talked to veered from bland outrage to…
REVIEW: Ralph Fiennes Takes a Dud of a Play and Turns It into a Not-Bad Coriolanus
It's dangerous to underestimate modern-day reinterpretations of Shakespeare, a la Baz Luhrmann's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, not…
REVIEW: The Artist's Greatness Speaks Louder Than Words
We rarely think of as great movies as breezy ones: Breeziness is supposedly only for disposable entertainment, though achieving filmmaking greatness in the way we…
REVIEW: Michelle Williams Achieves Near-Perfection in Less-Than-Perfect My Week with Marilyn
There are some movies that have little or nothing to recommend them, except as a frame for a performance. My Week with Marilyn is that kind of movie. Based on writer and…
REVIEW: Scorsese's Hugo Melds Modern Filmmaking with a Glorious Sense of the Past
God help filmmakers who become legendary: Even if they manage to avoid becoming prisoners of their own high standards, there's no escaping those of their audience. And…
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