Silver Linings Playbook movie review
Sometimes uncomfortable, often funny, and always electrifying. Plays like a gentle sendup of romantic comedies fueled by a restless, blunt anti-charm and irascible honesty about wants and needs.
based on a book
Rise of the Guardians (review)
There’s genuine magic here. Dark magic, even. That’s a good thing.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (review)
The world’s most insipid vampires are back in inaction! Twilight has never been more about people standing around waiting for stuff to happen to them…
A Royal Affair (review)
Socialism as cool and sexy and radical? Is this a fantasy realm? No, it’s 250 years ago.
On the Road (review)
If you didn’t know that Jack Kerouac’s novel was a seminal influence on postwar America, you would never, ever guess it from this lifeless, soulless, pointless adaptation.
Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os) (London Film Festival review)
The rather depressingly realistic approach to adult relationships is, perhaps ironically, the best reason to see this hard-edged drama…
Cloud Atlas (review)
Insanely grand… My god, I love this movie. It’s every movie. It’s the ultimate movie.
Midnight’s Children (London Film Festival review)
Elegant looking and well intentioned, but epically bloated and choking on its own would-be grand metaphor…
Now Is Good (review)
Why does Dakota Fanning get to really live onscreen here in a way that Teh Movies don’t usually allow girls to do? Because she’s dying.
Anna Karenina (review)
There is no pretense that we’re getting a realistic depiction of late-19th-century Russia. Director Joe Wright isn’t merely crafting a metaphor about the social structures under which we all live: he’s underscoring the artificiality of cinema itself.
