reviews by year

So you hear that this is a movie about a band from Egypt — where the people are primarily Arab — that takes a trip to do a concert in Israel — where the people are, you know, mostly Jewish — and maybe your first reaction is to groan and moan and avoid avoid avoid because who wants to see a political movie about Arabs and Jews and the mess that is the Middle East and why can’t everyone just get along anyway?

Gus Van Sant’s latest dreamy homoerotic ode to confused male adolescence is, well, a dreamy homoerotic ode to confused male adolescence…

Visually impressive but naratively underpowered…

‘Aghast’ is the word. It’s not a word that should be applicable to anything Seussical.

I’d be sputtering with rage, except that I’m totally exhausted from raging for the last seven years. For ‘Taxi to the Dark Side’ is an infuriating film in so many ways that I can barely make myself coherent.

I hate to say this — partly because I don’t want it to be true and partly because it’s such a terrible pun — but could the zombie movie finally be dead?