Sputnik Mania (review)
A smart, wry look at the American enthusiasm for and then paranoia over the first manmade satellite to orbit Earth…
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The Happening movie review: nonevent
This appears to be a movie about an incident that occurs to a certain number of people across a particular region consisting of a few states.
The Incredible Hulk (review)
It sounds like praising with faint damns to say that Edward Norton and Tim Roth are so much more interesting to watch onscreen than their cartoon alter egos are. I mean, duh, right?
Kung Fu Panda (review)
It’s kinda like ‘The Forbidden Kingdom’ meets a reverse ‘Rataouille’…
You Don’t Mess with the Zohan movie review: not messing with the Zohan
I’m overstating a little: I cannot honestly say that I loved Zohan. But in a relative sense, given my history with Sandler, it is a huge admission to me to say that I kinda got a kick out of this silly movie.
Perfect Parents (review)
I love Christopher Eccleston. So his presence was all I needed to make me check out this made-for-British movie.
Vanaja (review)
For his Columbia Film School master thesis, filmmaker Rajnesh Domalpalli returned to his hometown in rural southern Indian to shoot a story of quiet class warfare…
Rhythm Thief (review)
Here’s all you probably need to know about this ultralow-budget indie: Martin Scorsese loves it.
Monster Road: Collector’s Edition (review)
Poignant but never pitying, this is an enthralling study of the driving force behind an artist’s work…
Sex and the City: The Movie (review)
I felt like some sort of alien anthropologist watching this movie, as if I were being presented with the strangest and most inexplicable creatures imaginable, and was being asked, out of all reason, to understand them.
