So bad that the projector attempted suicide multiple times during the opening-day public showing I attended.  | read it »

This is a gentle, honest, heartfelt film, but it does not have much to offer beyond an earnest respect for a segment of American society that is too often derided. Not that that is not a good thing...  | read it »

While perfectly pleasant and an entirely suitable option for anyone looking to take small children to the movies, it is a disappointingly minor entry in the annals of Studio Ghibli...  | read it »

There has always been something meanspirited about drag, but the meanness of this appalling movie descends to a cruel new low...  | read it »

Oh, deliver us, please, from tiresome male fantasies...  | read it »

Midnight in Paris becomes the butt of its own gentle joke... perhaps the most Woody Allen joke ever, one that wraps up a paralyzing self-awareness in a redemptive self-deprecation to, finally and splendidly, laugh with great good humor at itself.  | read it »

It’s still a not very good movie. But... It’s still Star Wars.  | read it »

Sometimes it’s easy to separate the artist from his art. Roman Polanksi’s latest makes this really tough.  | read it »

I consider it a tremendous mark in favor of The Woman in Black that not once during its running time did I think, Hey, wait, wouldn’t Harry Potter have a spell to deal with this?  | read it »

A surprisingly pleasant dramatization of the true story told through the eyes of the TV news reporter who broke the story and the Greenpeace activist who worked tirelessly to embarrass the powers that be into helping free three whales stuck in Alaskan ice...  | read it »