Ironclad (review)
James Purefoy as a disillusioned Templar is as bleakly gorgeous as the film around him…
reviews by genre
The Conspirator (review)
Admirable. Too, too admirable…
Larry Crowne (review)
Aggressively meh. Larry Crowne is not a bad movie. It’s not a particularly good one, either.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (review)
Ewww. It’s got Michael Bay’s jingo-jism all over it.
Bad Teacher (review)
A refreshing breath of just-so-wrongness in today’s movie milieu.
Green Lantern (review)
I am consumed by the aubergine power of muddled confusion and despair.
Super 8 movie review: all about Steve
Is it weird that the overwhelming feeling I’m left with after Super 8 is one of a nostalgic melancholy?
Donor Unknown (review)
The kids are all right. They just want to meet their dad. Last year’s fictional family comedy about sperm-donor kids and this-right-here documentary — as cheery and bittersweet and lovely-melancholy as can be — are surely the first indications of a wave of cultural angst over the rise in sperm-donation as a thing…
The Hangover Part II (review)
“I can’t believe this is happening again,” laments Stu… and he’s not the only one. You cannot even honestly say about The Hangover Part II that it’s a matter of “same shit, different movie”: it’s pretty much the same movie as The Hangover…
Kung Fu Panda 2 (review)
What saves this from feeling like it should have gone direct to video is the animation, which is breathtakingly beautiful: this fantasy ancient China is gorgeously designed…
