In Darkness (review)
It’s The Diary of Anne Frank, only with sewers. Elegantly presented, chock full of moments of dreadful suspense in a horrible milieu, and buoyed by strikingly naturalistic performances…
based on fact
Big Miracle (review)
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…
Tatsumi (review)
Singapore’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the upcoming Oscars is an animated Japanese-language ode to legendary gekiga artist Yoshiro Tatsumi…
Goon (review)
So, Seann William Scott is sort of like Forrest Gump. No, I mean in this Goon movie.
We Bought a Zoo (review)
This week on We Bought a Zoo: It’s hilarious chaos all around for the Mee family as mopey teen Dylan accidentally leaves a delivery crate of snakes open…
The Big Year (review)
A charming little movie that is so amiably ridiculous that you’re sure it must have been invented, but it’s based on a real wacky thing…
Moneyball (review)
I had been reduced to a slobbering gushy mess by the end of this gloriously entertaining movie even though I’d spend the entirety of the running time before this marveling at how this is the least sentimental baseball movie ever.
Snowtown (aka The Snowtown Murders) (review)
The story of the killers… but not in any way that you’ve ever seen a tale of serial murder told before.
J. Edgar (review)
If there’s one thing that comes across stridently and passionately from Clint Eastwood’s curiously blah biopic J. Edgar, it is this: Leonardo DiCaprio really wants an Oscar.
Machine Gun Preacher movie review
Gerard Butler gets Jesus. But not — this is my favorite thing about this movie — in an obnoxious way.
