I love that the producers of The Vow says it’s “based on a true story.” That’s the moral equivalent of Days of Our Lives flashing those words across bottom of the screen when they bring an...
With its found-footage aesthetic and regular-guys-get-super-powers plot, Chronicle will rightly be compared to Cloverfield or perhaps the TV show Heroes. But the film it really has the most in...
There is nothing cuddly about Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), the 9-year-old narrator of Stephen Daldry’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. He’s fretful, voluble, socially awkward—obviously...
It may seem astonishing that a black-and-white silent film, made by a French director with a nearly unpronounceable last name (Michel Hazanavicius) and starring two French actors that no one...
A film like We Bought a Zoo always brings out my two sides as a film critic. Let’s call them “Bad Max” and “Good Max.”
Bad Max might point out that this film, about a recent widower (Matt...
David Fincher directing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is the moral equivalent of Beethoven composing a jingle for a Bud Lite ad (a strictly hypothetical example, by the way—as far as I know,...
Warning: This isn’t so much a review of The Descendants as a discussion of why it didn’t quite “do it” for me. So I’m assuming that anyone who reads this has already seen the film. In other...
It’s almost impossible to do this, but when I assemble a Top 10 list, I like to imagine myself a decade from now, reflecting back on the year that was. Which 2011 films will really stick out...
The cast of New Year’s Eve positively baffles—and not just because of the sheer enormity of it.
Sure, we expect to see the likes of Ashton Kutcher, Katherine Heigl, Josh Duhamel, and even Sarah...
Unlike my pal, the comedian Larry Noto (the foremost Muppetologist on the East Coast), I was never a big Muppets girl. I mean, in the show’s heyday (the late 70s), it was completely...
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