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Brüno (2009) Pam Grady Cohen probably did not consciously echo The Magic Christian, but he would have done well to learn from it.
Posted Jul 13, 2009  Edit critic review
(500) Days of Summer (2009) Pam Grady Fast, funny and absolutely delightful.
Posted Jan 28, 2009  Edit critic review
Moon (2009) Pam Grady Jones displays such a complete command of his narrative that it is hard to believe this is his first feature.
Posted Jan 22, 2009  Edit critic review
Nights in Rodanthe (2008) Telly Davidson The major highlight is the awkward, out-of-step dialogue between Lane and Gere as their budding relationship morphs from wariness to friendliness to love.
Posted Sep 26, 2008  Edit critic review
The Doorman (2007) Brent Simon Despite the fact that The Doorman features dozens of cameos by real-life boldface names, the film itself is a mess.
Posted Sep 23, 2008  Edit critic review
College (2008) Brent Simon Personally, I wouldn't waste a $5 drink on this one, but I do understand that teen's irritation.
Posted Sep 12, 2008  Edit critic review
Towelhead (2007) Richard Horgan Nearly a decade after the triumph of American Beauty, Ball has stumbled to the level of American Booty.
Posted Sep 10, 2008  Edit critic review
Blindness (2008) Pam Grady Ignore that wretched Riviera buzz, because Blindness is a haunting work and a wonderful distillation of José Saramago's novel.
Posted Sep 09, 2008  Edit critic review
Death Race (2008) Pam Grady The movie Death Race most resembles is not Death Race 2000 or even another action movie but rather a beloved 1994 prison drama.
Posted Aug 22, 2008  Edit critic review
Hamlet 2 (2008) Richard Horgan Nowhere is the failure of this film more evident than in the much ballyhooed Elisabeth Shue subplot.
Posted Aug 21, 2008  Edit critic review
Transsiberian (2008) Brent Simon Nowadays, Kingsley is a bit like the English version of Morgan Freeman - an actor with a seemingly inherent reservoir of gravitas, yet no qualms about glossy paycheck gigs.
Posted Aug 15, 2008  Edit critic review
Elegy (2008) Brett Buckalew In the early scenes of the two lovers discovering each other's bodies and personal quirks, Coixet coaxes work from Kingsley and Cruz that is remarkably intimate.
Posted Aug 08, 2008  Edit critic review
Swing Vote (2008) Telly Davidson Carroll turns Costner into her comic foil, effectively relegating the Oscar winner to giving a supporting-sidekick performance in his own film.
Posted Aug 01, 2008  Edit critic review
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008) Brent Simon Ironic, then, that 20th Century Fox's quiescent sales job may ultimately cost the film a suitable first-weekend box office splash.
Posted Jul 25, 2008  Edit critic review
Mamma Mia! (2008) Pam Grady It is not merely that Pierce Brosnan cannot sing; it is that he looks so uncomfortable doing it.
Posted Jul 21, 2008  Edit critic review
Encounters at the End of the World (2007) Pam Grady Had Werner Herzog lived 500 years ago, he probably would have become a celebrated conquistador, mapping out brave new worlds.
Posted Jul 02, 2008  Edit critic review
The Wackness (2008) Richard Horgan Kingsley's pot smoking puddle of regret is one of the few Big Apple personas to come close to Hoffman's bag of Ratso Rizzo tricks.
Posted Jun 30, 2008  Edit critic review
Get Smart (2008) Pam Grady The smartest thing about the movie is the way Alan Arkin and Terence Stamp inject a little bit of that 1960's spirit.
Posted Jun 20, 2008  Edit critic review
Sex and the City (2008) Pam Grady Opt for the much better (and much shorter) version made in 1959 starring Hope Lange, Diane Baker, Suzy Parker and Joan Crawford.
Posted May 30, 2008  Edit critic review
War, Inc. (2008) Brent Simon The filmic equivalent of a bleating, hot microphone - all crossed wires and misfunneled energy.
Posted May 27, 2008  Edit critic review
The Fall (2006) Brett Buckalew The best movie of the year so far by a wide mile.
Posted May 12, 2008  Edit critic review
Speed Racer (2008) Brent Simon All in all, I'm pretty sure Hunter S. Thompson had hallucinations like this.
Posted May 09, 2008  Edit critic review
Hear and Now (2007) Shelley Gabert It's the merging of filmmaker and daughter that makes this documentary and memoir so compelling and appealing to a mass audience.
Posted May 07, 2008  Edit critic review
Noise (2008) Richard Horgan A much better strategy for alarm activist Bean would have been to give Robbins a microphone and make this as a trenchant documentary.
Posted May 06, 2008  Edit critic review
Redbelt (2008) Brett Buckalew The journey has its charms, but the destination calls to mind Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?"
Posted May 02, 2008  Edit critic review
Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) Brent Simon Mostly works because it's well cast, wildly written and full of good, old-fashioned comedic friction.
Posted Apr 28, 2008  Edit critic review
The Auteur (2008) Richard Horgan There's no Hitchcock in The Auteur, which is surprising considering the second syllable of the Master of Suspense's surname.
Posted Apr 25, 2008  Edit critic review
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) Brent Simon The phrase "good enough" applies, without any negative connotations that might unintentionally summon forth.
Posted Apr 18, 2008  Edit critic review
Anamorph (2007) Shelley Gabert A pale imitation of David Fincher's Seven.
Posted Apr 16, 2008  Edit critic review
Captain Abu Raed (2007) Richard Horgan Writer-director Matalqa cites City Lights as one of his favorites, and to Chaplin there are two predominant connections in his film.
Posted Apr 10, 2008  Edit critic review
Sex and Death 101 (2007) Brent Simon A fun, sloppy treatment of a profound premise that, as a reunion project between Waters and Ryder, feels right.
Posted Apr 10, 2008  Edit critic review
My Blueberry Nights (2007) Kevin Biggers Right from the beginning, there's a discomforting sense of banality blanketing the film: the journey, the pie motif, the faith in "new beginnings."
Posted Apr 04, 2008  Edit critic review
Run Fat Boy Run (2007) FilmStew Staff Report A fry-up of American, British and Irish comedy sensibilities that will have no trouble satisfying mainstream movie appetites.
Posted Apr 02, 2008  Edit critic review
21 (2008) Brent Simon Across the Universe star Jim Sturgess reaffirms himself as a sympathetic, highly likable screen presence.
Posted Apr 01, 2008  Edit critic review
Stop-Loss (2008) Brett Buckalew Much of Stop-Loss' first act feels like the cast of Hee-Haw auditioning for a Best Years of Our Lives remake.
Posted Mar 31, 2008  Edit critic review
The Hammer (2007) Brent Simon Succeeds in spite of itself.
Posted Mar 28, 2008  Edit critic review
Young at Heart (2007) Lisa Johnson The best film I've seen so far this year and easily one of my favorite documentaries ever.
Posted Mar 28, 2008  Edit critic review
Hats Off (2008) Richard Horgan A wonderful continuation of Johnstone's previous age-is-but-a-number twilight documentaries Martha & Ethel and Throwing Curves.
Posted Mar 28, 2008  Edit critic review
Priceless (2006) Richard Horgan Tautou positively sparkles as a crafty master of the French Riviera sexual-favors-for-financial-rewards shell game.
Posted Mar 27, 2008  Edit critic review
Chapter 27 (2007) Telly Davidson Leto's performance is as great a physical, if not emotional, transformation as Charlize Theron's "hagging it up" for Monster.
Posted Mar 25, 2008  Edit critic review
Funny Games (2007) Brent Simon Posits that we humans are a persuadable lot, willing to accept almost anything in the name of entertainment.
Posted Mar 14, 2008  Edit critic review
Penelope (2006) Brent Simon The success of Juno has re-set the bar for whimsical tales of headstrong, intelligent young women grappling with life difficulties.
Posted Mar 06, 2008  Edit critic review
Married Life (2007) Richard Horgan Cooper and Brosnan display more genuine chemistry than anything that passes for sparks between Cooper and kept woman McAdams.
Posted Mar 05, 2008  Edit critic review
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Brent Simon There will always be adults who want to catch up on the history lessons they slept or passed notes through during their younger years.
Posted Feb 29, 2008  Edit critic review
Vantage Point (2008) Brent Simon Jittery, Bourne-style-lite mayhem, with edits every one-half to one-third a second.
Posted Feb 22, 2008  Edit critic review
Charlie Bartlett (2007) Pam Grady Charlie's more unsavory activities spring from the same source tapped in Rock 'n' Roll High School by Clint Howard's Eaglebauer character.
Posted Feb 22, 2008  Edit critic review
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) Richard Horgan The character of Poppy is an entirely original female film protagonist, sort of a British working class version of Annie Hall.
Posted Feb 22, 2008  Edit critic review
Be Kind Rewind (2008) Pam Grady Gondry is the first director since School of Rock's Richard Linklater to fully capture Black's truculent charm and actually make it - charming.
Posted Feb 21, 2008  Edit critic review
Beaufort (2007) Richard Horgan Announces to North American audiences a major new talent in the form of 39-year-old writer-director Joseph Cedar.
Posted Feb 20, 2008  Edit critic review
Definitely, Maybe (2008) Brent Simon By trading in metaphor and parallel structure, makes a compelling allegorical statement about just how stuck in a rut we collectively feel our nation is.
Posted Feb 18, 2008  Edit critic review
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