Lottery Ticket (review)
Kevin doesn’t play the lottery, because he thinks it’s ‘designed to keep poor people poor by selling them false dreams.’ So why does he buy a lottery ticket anyway?
2010 theatrical releases
Get Low (review)
I suppose Aaron Schneider knows a thing or two about how to make a cold gray stark wintry movie look even more Great Depression-y…
Nanny McPhee Returns (aka Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang) (review)
There is a sorry tradition among children’s movies of late that dictates that bratty kids are adorable…
Mother (Madeo) (review)
The horror of Bong Joon-ho’s bleakly comic film begins with how it’s barely a blip in a mother’s routine when her son is accused of murdering a teenaged schoolgirl and Mom must doggedly go to work to find the real killer…
Eat Pray Love (review)
There’s something ridiculously and deeply sad about what Eat Pray Love reveals about the deprived lives American women lead…
The Ghost Writer (aka The Ghost) (review)
This is what I am profoundly grateful for: Roman Polanski’s elegant, gripping thriller The Ghost Writer is not about teenaged girls, not in any way at all.
The Expendables (review)
‘Bad Shakespeare,’ one badass notes with a sad shake of his head at a particularly cheesy revelation about the other badass standing in front of him, and that’s the moment when a little bell in my head went off: Bingo.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (review)
It’s *Twilight* for boys…
The Secret in Their Eyes (review)
This year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a seductive film noir, a lonely love story, a cautionary tale about taking a quest for justice too far, and more…
Holy Rollers (review)
It’s a familiar story — Nice Kid gets mixed up in Bad Things — but as first-time feature director Kevin Asch tells it, there’s extra potency to the contrast between the Nice and the Bad.
