The Gatekeepers documentary review: secret police speak out
The Oscar-nominated documentary in which the six living former heads of Israel’s ultrasecretive domestic security agency talk about their antiterrorism work…
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation (review)
You get the G.I. Joes for Christmas. Hooray! You make them cross the demilitarized zone between the china cabinet and the DVDs near the TV to rescue Barbie. *pawft pawft pawft pawft* — enemy fire.
A Fierce Green Fire (review)
How, in a few short decades, we’ve gone from “Save the Whales” to “Save the Humans (as Well as the Whales, Obviously)”…
How to Survive a Plague (review)
A glorious ode to the supposition that a small group of committed people can change the world, and a reminder that the work is not yet done…
A Good Day to Die Hard (review)
Bland generic action pudding that manages to be sociopathic, too.
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God documentary review
“Angry” doesn’t even begin to cover how this film makes me feel. It probably won’t cover you, either.
Koch (review)
Historically compelling, journalistically rigorous, and bursting with Essence of Koch…
Broken City (review)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…
Zero Dark Thirty movie review
If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.
Total Recall (review)
Len Underworld Wiseman’s least hacktackular movie yet, which isn’t to say that it’s quality entertainment, but it is some solid B-grade processed-cheese-product movie junk food.
