Henry Poole Is Here (review)
This isn’t a movie: it’s a sermon.
reviews by year
Tropic Thunder (review)
Oh please please please let it be true that Ben Stiller is done with the humiliation ‘comedies’ and is getting back to his roots in smart satire.
Bottle Shock (review)
In 1976, an English wine merchant name of Steven Spurrier, who ran a shop in Paris, hit upon the idea of setting up a competition between the wines of France and those of Northern California…
Pineapple Express (review)
Here’s yet another excellent argument for the legalization of marijuana: it will prevent us seeing more movies like this one.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (review)
Yup, those pants are still traveling.
The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) (review)
A damned intriguing thriller that asks more questions than it answers and leaves you dazed and upset and also a little inspired.
Stealing America: Vote by Vote (review)
If you need any more proof that a movie like *Swing Vote* is complete balderdash, with its fantasy about getting couch potatoes out to the polls as the cure-all for what ails America, then here is it.
Swing Vote (review)
You almost want to hug ‘Swing Vote,’ too, it’s so cute in how it thinks that it’s not too late for all that, that one-man-one-vote really is something akin to, well, maybe nine innings of baseball on a glorious summer’s day.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (review)
Even with bar set low and my unconditional love set high, I cannot freakin’ believe how cruelly ‘Tomb’ rips out my geeky little heart and stomps on it.
The Tracey Fragments (review)
If you’re not clear what all the fuss over Ellen Page is about, check out this 2007 Canadian film, a showcase for her extraordinary and challenging talent…
