The Wee Man (review)
An ugly portrait of notorious Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris that paints him as nearly noble…
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Barbara (review)
An odd mutedness and puzzling lack of urgency frustrate the mood of Orwellian horror…
The Impossible (review)
It’s a disaster movie, but not as we know it…
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.
Gangster Squad (review)
Gangster Squad! In color! This is blustery postwar mythologizing about the violent birth of the modern metropolis, all pulpy-bright even when it’s night…
Promised Land (review)
At every turn, and via a simple narrative that is so effortless it barely feels constructed at all, nothing here is quite what it seems, and everything is even more than what it is.
Parental Guidance (review)
A taste of what you’re in for: Completely random “humorous” ethnic stereotyping. Crotch injury as comedic. The questioning of the masculinity of a man who is kind and gentle. Children’s toilet habits held up for ridicule.
Jack Reacher (review)
Like a midseason episode of a basic-cable detective show you’ve never heard of.
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (review)
Achingly lovely, so full of bittersweet melancholy and yet so fixedly hopeful…
Life of Pi (review)
Fanciful and visually lavish, yet very grounded in human reality.
