Bobby (review)
“I didn’t know, I didn’t know, I didn’t know,” I said to myself at the devastating end of ‘Bobby’: I had no idea how important Bobby Kennedy was to so many people.
2006 theatrical releases
For Your Consideration movie review: unpretty comedy
Christopher Guest and his merry band of pranksters are back, improvising a loving, teasing romp through a realm we love and love to hate, full of people fascinating and repellent at the same time.
Happy Feet (review)
Fluffy baby penguins dancing and singing and waddling around their world with wide-eyed wonder? You have to have a heart of stone not to be a puddle of goo after coming in contact with that.
Fast Food Nation (review)
To say that *Fast Food Nation* the movie is less horrifying than the book is accurate, but not fair to the movie, which is plenty horrifying enough. Linklater puts a human face on a situation that is so huge that it just about paralyzes you.
Casino Royale (review)
Exactly what I was hoping for, and everything I was expecting from the first Generation X James Bond.
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (review)
Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius. A crazy genius, maybe, a man who takes dedication to his art to a level courting criminal prosecution and bodily harm, but a genius nevertheless.
Shut Up & Sing (review)
So yeah, *Shut Up & Sing* is massively depressing, and highlights some of the hypocrisies and idiocies of American public life, and points out how goddamn fucking ignorant some Americans are, and makes you want to just give up and move to Mars and start all over again with a new revolution.
Harsh Times (review)
Before ‘Harsh Times’ I would have sworn that there was no role that could trip up Christian Bale…
Stranger Than Fiction (review)
This ain’t no Charlie Kaufman head trip, one that leaves you dizzy in the brain and feeling like you’ve been to the Moon and back. This is much sweeter, much more soulful… much more *human.*
Flushed Away (review)
This melding of claymation and CGI is absolutely perfect, beautifully combining the wonderfully organic feel of Aardman’s hand-built sets and lovingly breathed-into-life clay figures with DreamWorks’ sleek computer cartoons.
