Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (review)
This is how far cartoons have descended in the last decade and a half: *The Lion King* was Shakespearean. *Ice Age* is *Everybody Loves Raymond*ean.
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The Hunt for Gollum (review)
This is a beautiful little fan film: it’s fan fiction to the Nth degree…
Up (review)
How did the Pixar folks time it just right to get this cheerful and fantastical yet never unrealistically optimistic movie before our eyes just as we are getting desperate for a movie to hug us reassuringly?
Sita Sings the Blues (review)
How does heartbreak become art? Just like this.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (review)
A morass of Three Stooges-level slapstick and juvenile-style playground taunting…
The Brothers Bloom (review)
A deliciously clever, convention-busting flick with more soul than you’d expect…
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (review)
Even trying to think about *Ghosts of Girlfriends Past* from a snarky perspective makes me want to vomit. This is a repulsive movie, way worse than I was expecting…
17 Again (review)
The best thing that can be said about this gender-swapped trifle of a riff on *Freaky Friday* is that it’s entirely inoffensive…
Watchmen: Tales of the Black Freighter and Under the Hood (review)
Help yourself to another cinematic serving of the grim graphic novel…
Super Capers (review)
This brutally stupid superhero sendup consistently mistakes wholesale theft for creative cleverness.
