reviews by year

Recipient of numerous film festival awards and praised by mental health experts for its authentic and humanistic portrayal of schizophrenia, this modest film is a must-see for its honesty and its fine, graceful performances.

There’s a reason why we don’t often see the black comedy combined with the romantic comedy: it rarely works.

I’m so tired of hearing myself complaining about these movies that I may just give it up.

If you’re expecting more of the gorgeous, ugly luminosity of 2002’s ‘City of God’ — Fernando Meirelles’s astonishing film about life in the desperate slums of Brazil — don’t: you’ll only set yourself up for disappointment.

There are a bunch of theories floating around the fanboy — and fangirl — Internet purporting to explain why ‘Penelope’ is only getting released in theaters now. It did, after all, make its debut all the way back at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival…

Some people are just meant to be movie stars — they’ve got that indefinable It that makes them glow onscreen, that makes them impossible not to watch.

Oh my God it’s like ’24’ on speed. ’24’ on *acid.* It’s insane, and preposterous, yet not unentertaining, in its own uniquely goofy and ridiculous way.

If a good rule of thumb is that the average generation clocks in at around twenty-five years, then it’s almost too delicious to note that 22 years after ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ — the definitive Gen X high school movie — comes the next great, generation-defining high-school hero.

Absolutely horrifying…