Spider-Man 3 (review)
‘Spider-Man 2’ was *alive* with humor and humanity and spirit and soul. All of that is missing here.
reviews by year
Lucky You (review)
Bana is fascinating to watch here… even his poker face roils with undercurrents of tension and smugness that play off one another in a beautiful ugly way.
Tribeca ’07: The Killing of John Lennon (review)
My whole life has pointed in one direction. I can see that now. All of Mark David Chapman’s words are his own, we are informed at the beginning of this re-creation of the life of the murderer of Beatle John Lennon in the months leading up to the horrific and senseless crime. And that’s the … more…
Tribeca ’07: The Cake Eaters (review)
You asked me to marry you, and then you took off without saying good-bye. Three men, three women, and a whole lotta tender secrets, aching desire, and broken hearts fill up the directorial debut of actor Mary Stuart Masterson — so much so that what seems at first like a lean, spare psychic space in … more…
Tribeca ’07: Nobel Son (review)
You’re lucky you’re not a genius. It’s one of those perfect-crime kinda flicks, wrapped up in familial angst as a black-comedy topping. That it’s all rather ridiculous and overly complicates itself in the process is almost beside the point … though not entirely. See, arrogant college prof and working scientist Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman: Harry … more…
Tribeca ’07: Black Sheep movie review
Becomes, as all the best sendups do, a thorough tweaking of the genre as well as an excellent example of the same.
Tribeca ’07: Mulberry Street (review)
An ultralow-budget horror with a style and flavor all its own, driven by character and reveling in its utter lack of coin as, it seems, the freedom and permission it needed to be clever and original.
Next (review)
There are lots of crimes a movie can commit — being boring, being nonsensical, being implausible, being irrelevant — but it’s the rare movie that can commit all of them in the space of 90 minutes.
Tribeca ’07: Eye of the Dolphin (review)
Are you saying I have a daughter? How’d that happen? / It’s called sex, Dad. Family films tend to suffer from an overabundance of sentimental sap, but this delightful drama about a father and a daughter rediscovering each other avoids that fate without giving up any of its sweet gentleness. The signs don’t look good … more…
Hot Fuzz movie review: blue steal
It’s just as visually lively, just as crammed full of clever and literate wordplay, just as screamingly hilarious as ‘Shaun of the Dead.’
