The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (review)
Kooky-cutesy dramedy about British pensioners who retire to India, where they can be treated poorly in all new and exotic ways…
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Black Gold (aka Day of the Falcon) (review)
There’s a lot of golden-age Hollywood in this tale of the earliest days, in the 1930s, of the Arab oil kingdoms. Some of it is just plain fun; some of it is cornball old-fashioned…
This Means War (review)
I’d call this How to Lose a Spy in 10 Days, except all along I was rooting for nothing but for Reese Witherspoon to dump both Tom Hardy and Chris Pine…
In the Land of Blood and Honey (review)
Written and directed by actress Angelina Jolie, there is nevertheless nothing “Hollywood” about this film: it stars local actors and is in the local languages, and it shies not one whit from the horrors of the Bosnian civil war.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (review)
I appreciate that many people have many problems with this movie, but I confess that I don’t quite understand them…
A Better Life (review)
This is a gentle, honest, heartfelt film, but it does not have much to offer beyond an earnest respect for a segment of American society that is too often derided. Not that that is not a good thing…
Arrietty (aka The Secret World of Arrietty) (review)
While perfectly pleasant and an entirely suitable option for anyone looking to take small children to the movies, it is a disappointingly minor entry in the annals of Studio Ghibli…
Jack and Jill (review)
There has always been something meanspirited about drag, but the meanness of this appalling movie descends to a cruel new low…
The Woman in the Fifth (review)
Oh, deliver us, please, from tiresome male fantasies…
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (review)
So bad that the projector attempted suicide multiple times during the opening-day public showing I attended.
