Married Life (review)
Ira Sachs’ last film was a tough, uncompromising portrait of passion and pain. Would that his followup were as powerful…
2008 theatrical releases
Flawless (review)
It’s gotta mean something, right? In only the first few months of 2008 we’ve seen more than one — more than two — movies about daring, honking-big robberies pulled off by little people who feel, perhaps justifiably so, that they’ve been cheated by life…
Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns (review)
This isn’t a movie: it’s a buffet at which Perry piles your plate with spoonfuls of absurd melodrama, a taste of gritty urban drama, a heaping of cheap cartoon, and a big side of corn.
The Band’s Visit (review)
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?
Paranoid Park (review)
Gus Van Sant’s latest dreamy homoerotic ode to confused male adolescence is, well, a dreamy homoerotic ode to confused male adolescence…
In Bruges movie review: Ray and Ken live for a day
Imagine if Laurel and Hardy were Irish hitmen caught in a web of existential angst…
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day movie review: girls will be girls
Let’s get one thing straight: Amy Adams is adorable.
Sleepwalking (review)
Visually impressive but naratively underpowered…
Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (review)
‘Aghast’ is the word. It’s not a word that should be applicable to anything Seussical.
Taxi to the Dark Side (review)
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.
