Safe Haven (review)
Not just another tale about how the people whose photos come with the picture frames fell in love. This time it’s a thriller, too!
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Beautiful Creatures (review)
If only movies could be not tossed aside lightly but thrown with great force…
Warm Bodies (review)
Contents itself with the mildest of tweaks at both the zombie and the romantic-comedy genres… (new on DVD/VOD in the US and Canada)
Oscar Nominated Live-Action Shorts (85th Academy Awards) (review)
My favorite of the lot is the French-Belgian “Death of a Shadow,” a steampunkish science fantasy…
Amour (review)
There have been other stories about longstanding love and the devotion it inspires, but none with quite the wallop of this one…
Everyday (review)
A remarkable and unlikely sort of love story, and another triumph from Michael Winterbottom…
Quartet (review)
A lovely film with heartfelt performances from a fantastic cast that focuses on the upsides of getting older…
Les Misérables (review)
There’s an alchemy here that brings together the best of screen and the best of stage…
I, Anna (review)
A gloss of edgy noirish elegance cannot disguise the fact that this is yet one more tiresome example of the thriller subgenre that posits that the most interesting thing that a woman can be is out of her mind.
The Oranges (review)
I’m not sure a better cast has ever gone more ickily astray than in this most misbegotten of dramedies…
