The Holiday (review)
“You look like my Barbie doll,” a little girl tells Cameron Diaz. Bingo!
comedy
For Your Consideration movie review: unpretty comedy
Christopher Guest and his merry band of pranksters are back, improvising a loving, teasing romp through a realm we love and love to hate, full of people fascinating and repellent at the same time.
I’m Alan Partridge: Series 1 (review)
Highly recommended… if you can take humor that is, paradoxically, relentlessly sad.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (review)
Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius. A crazy genius, maybe, a man who takes dedication to his art to a level courting criminal prosecution and bodily harm, but a genius nevertheless.
Open Season (review)
Surprise! This is as fresh, as clever, as lively, as huggable, as satisfying as animated movies get.
Snakes on a Plane: a totally ironic and yet kinda not movie review
A superb contemporary example of cinema du serpent, wittily harkening back to its thematic progenitors, but it is a marvelous achievement in its own right, too…
Accepted movie review: course correction
Almost like a forgotten relic of the late 70s, early 80s, when even summer comedies came with a touch of social commentary and a bit of class consciousness — when they ate the rich instead of aspiring to be one of them.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (review)
Is it ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ or ‘Highlander 2: The Quickening’?
Cars (review)
Cars are people too? Sooo not funny.
Curious George (review)
I am curious (yellow).
