Rating: 2.5 stars
Flash of Genius is probably better than any movie about the guy who invented intermittent windshield wipers deserves to be. That’s not to say it’s a great film—it’s far too earnest...
Rating: 3 stars
Michael Cera, the wonderfully strange and droll teen star from Arrested Development, Superbad, and Juno, always plays the same character. This, I suppose, would be a problem if the...
Rating: 2 stars
Eagle Eye acts under the assumption that if a film gooses us with enough explosions and car chases, we won’t notice how proposterous it is.
It assumes wrong.
Here’s the premise: The...
Rating: 2 stars
Nights in Rodanthe is a movie you can take your mom to—and indeed I did just that.
She felt exactly the same way I did—that the movie wasn’t anyone’s idea of “good” but that it was...
Rating: 2.5 stars
Having seen Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna, I now want to read the book. No, not because I loved the movie so much, I want the experience to linger, but because I feel like the...
Rating: 3 stars
It’s Sixth Sense, the comedy! In Ghost Town, Ricky Gervais plays Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic dentist who dies for 7 minutes during a routine medical procedure (okay, a...
Rating: 2 stars
Lakeview Terrace is the kind of movie that titillates you with a good premise, then sort of meanders around without actually going anywhere, and then ends in a burst of jarring...
Rating: 2 stars
Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro don’t just make movies anymore. They make Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro movies. They’re always riffing off their past work and their iconic status.
I just...
Rating: 1 star
One can only imagine that the producers of The Women were dancing for joy when Sex and the City became the surprise hit of the early summer. “Hey, that movie is about a group of...
Rating: 3 stars
You could say that Burn After Reading is a spy caper where everything is at it seems to be. You keep waiting for the big reveal, the moment when you find out that at least one of the...
