REVIEW: Fassbender and Mortensen Duke It Out, Amicably, in A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is probably the most fun you'll ever have watching a movie about Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud duking it out -- and nurturing a…
REVIEW: Broken Beds! Bloody Placenta! Breaking Dawn - Part 1 Goes to Crazytown — Almost
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part I is such a departure from the previous three Twilight pictures that you could almost consider it a rogue offshoot. Director…
REVIEW: Alexander Payne Gives Us a Facile Movie About Complex Emotions in The Descendants
Alexander Payne's The Descendants has just about everything you need for a male midlife-crisis movie, and more: A big plot of unspoiled family land about to be sold off…
REVIEW: Happy Feet Two Is Too Much of an Almost-Good Thing
Australian director George Miller's Happy Feet was one of the surprise pleasures of the 2006 moviegoing year. The story was simple: A young Emperor penguin who has no…
REVIEW: Colin Farrell Slow Burns Through Smart, Stylish London Boulevard
I'm sure there are more exciting things in life than watching Colin Farrell, dressed in a sleek, dark suit, weave through the streets of London behind the wheel of a…
REVIEW: Lars von Trier's Melancholia Offers a Glorious Peep into the Sugar Easter Egg of Doom
Lars von Trier's Melancholia is neither the provocation nor the yowl of anguish that his last picture, Antichrist, was. For those reasons, it's less effective and also…
REVIEW: Clint Eastwood Tries to Humanize an Ambitious, Dangerous Pipsqueak in J. Edgar
As Lily Tomlin's Ernestine once said, "There's nothing like a Hoover when you're dealing with dirt." Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar could use more dirt: This is a sensitive…
REVIEW: A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas Throws Off a Few Sparks, Then Fizzles
The great news about A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is that it features some of the most original 3-D effects this side of Avatar: Raw-egg splatter comin' right at…
REVIEW: Big, Clumsy Tower Heist Still Hits Moments of Comic Grace
Brett Ratner has long been the whipping boy for everything that's wrong with big, dumb Hollywood entertainments. There's just one problem: He's actually good at making…
REVIEW: Channing Tatum Keeps The Son of No One From Being Totally Orphaned
Sometimes there are one or two or three things in a movie that seem wholly implausible: For example, characters who, in 2011, don't use or even appear to own cell…
REVIEW: Johnny Depp Channels an Urbane, Dissolute Hunter S. Thompson in The Rum Diary
After years of watching Johnny Depp give performances from behind thick rings of pirate eyeliner or masks of outlandish Tim Burton makeup, it's a relief to see him, more…
REVIEW: Rhys Ifans Brings Roland Emmerich's Mammoth Historical Thriller Anonymous Down to Earth
Sometimes directors with certain strengths try to stretch different muscles and you desperately wish they wouldn't: Woody Allen getting all serious with Interiors comes…
REVIEW: Timberlake and Seyfried Make Glamorous Time Bandits in Sleek, Thoughtful In Time
Not even the most enormous movie marketing budget in the world could buy the perfect timing of Andrew Niccol's In Time, an allegory about the disparity between the rich…
REVIEW: Aki Kaurismäki's Ornery Humanist Spirit Shines in Le Havre
There's a danger in dismissing Aki Kaurismäki's Le Havre as lightweight just because it takes the most generous attitude possible toward human nature. Being jaundiced…
REVIEW: Not Even Rowan Atkinson's Grand Comic Gifts Can Resuscitate Johnny English Reborn
Among the great mysteries of the spy-movie world -- along with the question of how Blofeld keeps his suits from being covered with cat hair -- is this: Why aren't the…
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