Arctic Tale (review)
This powerfully moving documentary gives us an adorable baby polar bear and a cute baby walrus, creatures struggling to survive among the melting ice of the North Pole.
2007 theatrical releases
I Know Who Killed Me (review)
Bad is easy: this level of awful approaches the genius.
Talk to Me (review)
Oh my god and wonder of wonders, here we have a studio movie — a drama! — starring not one but two actors-of-color. God, what a terrible phrase. Don’t we all have a color? Okay: two actors who aren’t the usual medium peachy-beige of those who typically get to star in studio movies unless their name is Denzel Washington.
The Simpsons Movie (review)
It’s good to see Groening and Co. back on their game again — it feels like it’s been a while since the TV show made me laugh this hard…
Hairspray (review)
*Hairspray* couldn’t be more charming and joyous, more get-up-and-dance toe-tapping, more simply agreeable. If bringing Broadway to the masses works this well, well, why the hell not?
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (review)
Can the occasion of overgrown-fratboy goofball Adam Sandler and resolutely vanilla sitcom dad Kevin James in fagface be anything other than an invitation to laugh at icky queery flamboyant homos?
You Kill Me (review)
‘Six Feet Under’ meets ‘My Blue Heaven’…
Introducing the Dwights (review)
It’s a familiar movie trope: the Mother From Hell. But Brenda Blethyn makes her an unmissable combination of love and angst and fear and warmth.
Evening (review)
Bittersweet and deeply, achingly romantic, this perfect, perfect film — based on Susan Minot’s novel — enfolds regrets and memories and love and hope in the snug embrace of a story of how one moment can send us careening down a path we never expected.
Lonely Hearts (review)
Can a film be poised and belligerent at the same time?
