That’s My Boy (review)
This is like the evil Mirror Universe version of Ted.
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Quartet (review)
A lovely film with heartfelt performances from a fantastic cast that focuses on the upsides of getting older…
The Sweeney (review)
This British attempt to ape Hollywood action movies only looks absurd, even if it does accidentally also hold up most Hollywood action movies as absurd, too…
Broken City (review)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…
The Wee Man (review)
An ugly portrait of notorious Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris that paints him as nearly noble…
Barbara (review)
An odd mutedness and puzzling lack of urgency frustrate the mood of Orwellian horror…
The Impossible (review)
It’s a disaster movie, but not as we know it…
Zero Dark Thirty movie review
If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.
Gangster Squad (review)
Gangster Squad! In color! This is blustery postwar mythologizing about the violent birth of the modern metropolis, all pulpy-bright even when it’s night…
Promised Land (review)
At every turn, and via a simple narrative that is so effortless it barely feels constructed at all, nothing here is quite what it seems, and everything is even more than what it is.
