The Kids Are All Right (review)
Funny and smart and poignant and real and universal. It’s one of the best movies about family I’ve ever seen…
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Despicable Me (review)
Better than *Toy Story 3.* Really.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Man som hatar kvinnor) (review)
See it if you love movies with compelling characters doing fascinating things and overcoming tremendous obstacles to get to an immensely satisfying end. You know: the things that movies are supposed to do, but rarely seem to manage.
The Last Airbender (review)
Shyamalan wanted to leave us shaking our heads and marveling at a terribleness that was not merely terrible, but a terribleness that leaves you astonished at just how very, very terrible it is.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (review)
The sparkly vampire guy and the shirtless werewolf guy, they’re still fighting over perfect, perfect Bella, whose perfection extends to a delicate and supposedly adorable feminine idiocy…
Grown Ups (review)
Is it too overblown to suggest that what passes for the modern American mainstream comedy has finally descended into the downright sociopathic?
I Am Love (review)
Tilda Swinton, matriarch of a ridiculously wealthy Milan family, has sex with a man not her husband. And she *likes* it. So she must be punished.
Knight and Day (review)
*Knight and Day* may have generic characters doing generic things in generic situations, but it’s got Movie Stars with huge white smiles looking pretty and being blandly inoffensive in exotic foreign locales. What’s that? You need more than that? Why do you hate Hollywood?
Solitary Man (review)
If the ongoing meltdown of Michael Douglas’s obnoxious asshole in a three-quarter-life crisis is your idea of a good time, have at it.
Toy Story 3 (review)
It seemed like a good thing not to get one’s hopes up too much, because how long can Pixar’s streak of genius and spirit and wonder last? But this is a finale that brings the overarching story to its satisfying conclusion.
