Rating: 2.5 stars
The International asks the question: Can an otherwise unremarkable thriller be salvaged by one truly kick-ass scene? The answer is. . .almost.
For most of its 2 hour running time,...
Rating: 2.5 stars
So let me get this straight: He’s Just Not That Into You is a movie based on a self-help book based on an episode of a TV show (Sex and the City).
And yet, with all that seemingly...
Rating: 3.5 stars
There is so much that is great about the French film I’ve Loved You So Long, I’m willing to overlook its flaws.
As the film begins, Lea (Elsa Zylberstein) is picking up her older...
Oscar nominations are tomorrow. Here are my predictions. (Go Kate Winslet!)
BEST PICTURE
*The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
*The Dark Knight
*Frost/Nixon
*Milk
*Slumdog Millionaire
DIRECTING
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Rating: 1.5 stars
Paul Blart: Mall Cop would’ve made a nice digital short. The story of an out-of-shape, over zealous mall cop (Kevin James) who takes down a band of criminals, Die-Hard-style has a...
Rating: 2.5 stars
The rapper Christopher Wallace (a.k.a. Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Biggie Smalls) was an unlikely superstar. He was overweight, not particularly good-looking, and had been a smalltime...
Rating: 3.5 stars
Professional boxing has inspired many great movies. Pro wrestling? Not so much. Until now.
As The Wrestler opens to the strains of blaring ’80s heavy metal, we get a brief...
Historians will look back and say that 2008 was the year of the meta performance, the year that movies—and moviegoers—finally became so sophisticated that each film became an endless loop of self-...
Rating: 2 stars
He lost me with the growl. In Gran Torino, Clint Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a recent widower and Korean War Vet who is pissed at the world. He’s pissed that his neighbors are all...
Here’s the kind of useless exercise that only a true film dork with way too much free time on her hands could accomplish: I’ve listed all 36 of Woody Allen’s theatrical films (okay, there are...
