Sunshine Cleaning (review)
I have such a huge girl crush on Amy Adams, it’s crazy.
girls/women
Wendy and Lucy (review)
The first great joy of this tart little portrait is Michelle Williams’s achingly contradictory performance as Wendy…
Lullaby (review)
Sometimes it takes a movie like *Lullaby* to highlight what kind of treasure a really, really good actor is. Take Melissa Leo, for instance.
Coraline (review)
An elemental tale of childhood fantasies and nightmares…
Dutch Junkies (review)
Two just-under-feature-length documentaries about the face of modern addiction.
Open Window (review)
A counter to the onslaught of cinematic violence that typically assaults us and yet divorces us from an experience of a violent act.
Inkheart (review)
Could be Thursday Next’s favorite movie of late…
Secret Diary of a Call Girl: Season One (review)
I imagine Piper headed straight from *Doctor Who* to a series like this to wash away that nice-girl taint before she got typecast so early in her career. And whoo, there’s no beating around the bush here. (Oo, did I just say that?)
Hotel for Dogs (review)
I do confess I was afeared of the potential for a funny-hat montage: it’s the kind of thing you expect from kids’ movie that features just about every kind of cute, ugly, cute-ugly, and funny-looking dog imaginable. But there was none of that here. There was, I concede, a bit with dogs on treadmills, but … more…
Bride Wars (review)
Guys, if you decide to let yourself get dragged along to *Bride Wars* because you think it means you’re gonna get lucky with the chick as a thank-you, and she likes this movie… run like hell from her. She’s poison, and she’ll make your life a misery.
