Parental Guidance (review)
A taste of what you’re in for: Completely random “humorous” ethnic stereotyping. Crotch injury as comedic. The questioning of the masculinity of a man who is kind and gentle. Children’s toilet habits held up for ridicule.
reviews by year
Jack Reacher (review)
Like a midseason episode of a basic-cable detective show you’ve never heard of.
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (review)
Achingly lovely, so full of bittersweet melancholy and yet so fixedly hopeful…
Life of Pi (review)
Fanciful and visually lavish, yet very grounded in human reality.
West of Memphis (London Film Festival review)
Public perception and police misconduct take well-deserved raps here, as do larger issues of American injustice…
Django Unchained (review)
Quentin Tarantino spins a dark fantasia of the pre-Civil War South that is hilarious, ferocious, shocking, and wise, sometimes all at once.
Les Misérables (review)
There’s an alchemy here that brings together the best of screen and the best of stage…
Arbitrage (review)
For all the satisfying ironies that are dished up, some of what we’re served is hopelessly naive.
Pitch Perfect (review)
What’s charming and fun here gets a little overwhelmed by too much grossout stuff.
Total Recall (review)
Len Underworld Wiseman’s least hacktackular movie yet, which isn’t to say that it’s quality entertainment, but it is some solid B-grade processed-cheese-product movie junk food.
