Baby Mama (review)
Why don’t we get movies that acknowledge the deeply weird wonderfulness of all this chaotic and confusing and hilarious life stuff? Are there any adults anywhere today?
reviews
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (review)
It’s really hard to like a character when his own movie makes fun of him.
The Forbidden Kingdom (review)
So a martial-arts-mad teen from South Boston goes into a Chinatown pawn shop, see. It’s pretty much the same little-bit-scary, little-bit-cool, loaded-with-interesting-old-junk Chinatown pawn shop that Hoyt Axton went into in *Gremlins* and came out with the cute, cuddly Mogwai, so you know some weird shit is in the offing.
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (review)
It’s apeshit crazy nuttiness right from the opening moments of *Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed*…
Street Kings (review)
I’ve been seesawing with myself on Street Kings since… well, since I was sitting in the screening room watching it. It’s not an easy movie to recommend — I can’t honestly be totally gung-ho on it — but it’s not an easy movie to dismiss, either.
Stop-Loss (review)
Oh dear god yes, this is a *liberal* movie, in that it does not pretend that things aren’t exactly the way they are…
21 (review)
Jim Sturgess is gonna be a huge star, mark my words. Maybe not for this movie, though…
Tick Tock Lullaby (review)
A film that sharper and savvier about love and romance and sex, in all its many diverse expressions, than most…
Run, Fat Boy, Run (review)
If I like a movie, I usually like seeing it again. Except when it comes to romantic comedies: I tend not to think they bear up to multiple viewings, even the few good ones. I may have to reconsider that stance, however, now that I’ve seen ‘Run, Fat Boy, Run’ twice.
Married Life (review)
Ira Sachs’ last film was a tough, uncompromising portrait of passion and pain. Would that his followup were as powerful…
