How She Move (review)
These kids today, with their funky step dancing and their vibrant street culture and their desperate attempts to raise tuition for private school. Where did we go wrong with them?
2008 theatrical releases
27 Dresses (review)
Herewith the latest example of whalebone-corseted conformity masquerading as a postfeminist statement on modern independent womanhood.
Cloverfield (review)
There’s no way *Cloverfield* could possibly be worth the to-do. Could it?
Cassandra’s Dream (review)
Woody Allen’s latest film feels like something out his early career, or maybe even something that long predates him.
First Sunday (review)
Apparently, it’s now okay to commit serious felonies like robbery with breaking and entering along with kidnapping at gunpoint as long as you have a really, really good reason…
The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (review)
Three ordinary, modern-day, working-class veggies are dragged back in time, where they are mistaken for pirate-esque heroes who have to help a pretty green princess do something or other on the high seas.
Tribeca ’07: The Killing of John Lennon (review)
My whole life has pointed in one direction. I can see that now. All of Mark David Chapman’s words are his own, we are informed at the beginning of this re-creation of the life of the murderer of Beatle John Lennon in the months leading up to the horrific and senseless crime. And that’s the … more…
Tribeca ’07: Nobel Son (review)
You’re lucky you’re not a genius. It’s one of those perfect-crime kinda flicks, wrapped up in familial angst as a black-comedy topping. That it’s all rather ridiculous and overly complicates itself in the process is almost beside the point … though not entirely. See, arrogant college prof and working scientist Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman: Harry … more…
