Much like the film itself, I feel like this review should exist on two levels. If you’re someone who doesn’t keep up with the critical zeitgeist, who doesn’t obsessively check out Rotten...
Here’s the problem with bullying, as Lee Hirsch delineates so brilliantly in his new documentary Bully: Half of the people reading this don’t even think bullying is a problem. “Kids will be...
I suppose it’s unfair to compare The Hunger Games’s Katniss Everdeen to Twilight’s Bella Swan, but it’s also inevitable. Both are the heroine narrators of a wildly popular teen trilogy. Both...
From the moment rookie cops Schmidt (Jonah Hill) and Jenko (Channing Tatum) get their assignment to go undercover in a high school, because, according to their sergeant, the force’s higher-ups...
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,...
