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 Violent Miscreants and Power-Tripping Sociopaths Mall cops on parade in Observe and Report.
Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one... More>>
Published: April 09, 2009
 The Summer of Our '80s Youth in Adventureland Great America
Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola's Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for the leg warmers and... More>>
Published: April 02, 2009
 Fast & Furious Should Have Gone Straight-to-Xbox Made for VG Movie
With the molded-rubber face of Savalas, the basso profundo of Stallone and the name of an underdog gas alternative, Vin Diesel's already-dubious... More>>
Published: April 02, 2009
 Everlasting Moments Looks Great, But it's Ultimately a Missed Photo Op Camera Ready
Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in, Jan Troell's Everlasting Moments is a tribute to still photography filtered through... More>>
Published: April 02, 2009
 DreamWorks, In Your Face: Monsters vs. Aliens In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.
At the end of 2008, DreamWorks Animation bossman Jeffrey Katzenberg embarked on a cross-country tour, toting 20 minutes' worth of Monsters... More>>
Published: March 26, 2009
 Eternal Flame: I Love You, Man Not even Brody Jenner could extinguish the bromance.
Just as we thought the "bromantic comedy" had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its high point with I Love You, Man. The subtext is... More>>
Published: March 19, 2009
 Tony Gilroy's (heretofore unseen) Expert Light Touch in Duplicity The Bourne Comedian
Whether it's the amnesiac super spy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy specializes in characters... More>>
Published: March 19, 2009
 That's So Craven: The Last House on the Left Rape revenge. Yawn.
"That was the most offensive display of sexualized violence I have ever seen," one wilting fellow in need of a camphor hankie was overheard... More>>
Published: March 12, 2009
 RegularFellas In Gomorrah The Average Giuseppes of organized crime
Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash, grimly exciting exposé of organized crime in... More>>
Published: March 12, 2009
 Dr. Manhattan, Meet Dr. Hollywood Whew! Tinseltown's go-to graphic-novel guy didn't ruin Watchmen. But he doesn't get it either.
The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year (if not the century), Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster... More>>
Published: March 05, 2009
 Nobody Wins in James Gray's Ridiculous Two Lovers Shiksa V. Jew
If Joaquin Phoenix, who plays a lovelorn bachelor in James Gray's Two Lovers, were 12 years old, the movie might make a touching, if not... More>>
Published: February 26, 2009
 Kelly Reichardt's Modest But Cosmic Wendy and Lucy Lady with the Little Dog
Sometimes, less really is more. Modest but cosmic, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy is a movie whose sad pixie heroine, Wendy (Michelle... More>>
Published: February 19, 2009
 The International's Assets Are Troubled Indeed Bail Out This Movie
Tom Tykwer's The International is one of those movies in which shadowy men meet in parked cars, abandoned buildings and inconspicuous public... More>>
Published: February 12, 2009
 Buyer Beware of Confessions of a Shopaholic Bush and this movie agree: Go shopping! (Wait, don't.)
The Confessions of a Shopaholic we need right now would be a handheld doc featuring former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain sobbing into the camera... More>>
Published: February 12, 2009
 We're just not that into He's Just Not That Into You The Complete Idiot's Guide to Dating
The smirky, overbearing and subliminally hostile romantic primer He's Just Not That Into You — which sold a regrettable two million copies... More>>
Published: February 05, 2009
 Coraline in Wonderland Things are not as they seem in Henry Selick's stunning stop-motion fairy tale
If Alice in Wonderland were retold by the Mad Hatter, it might look something like Henry Selick's 3-D, stop-motion Coraline, in which the bored,... More>>
Published: February 05, 2009
 The Force Is Weak with the Long-Delayed Fanboys Millennium Albatross
Fanboys is meant for the dude who's content to simply stare at an Imperial stormtrooper's empty helmet for 90 minutes. It's for the two childhood... More>>
Published: February 05, 2009
 Fish Out of (Frozen) Water in New in Town Renee Zellweger as the anti-Norma Rae
She's too thin. She's a bobblehead. Her forehead doesn't move. Where has that Jerry Maguire girl gone, the one we once knew and loved? Did the... More>>
Published: January 29, 2009
 Reading Rainbow: Inkheart Nothing like a bad book adaptation to turn kids on to the written word
Brendan "Kids' Choice" Fraser returns to the multiplex day care as "Mo" Folchart, antiquarian-book-repairman-cum-adventurer. In... More>>
Published: January 22, 2009
 Che Is A One-Ton Guerrilla Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films in one four-hour sitting
Richard Nixon will always be part of America's dreamlife, with or without David Frost; the Bush II legacy will linger for years, even as W.... More>>
Published: January 15, 2009
 Dogs of War in Waltz with Bashir This is both documentary and animated feature — and a remarkable bubbling up of repressed violence
Ari Folman's broodingly original Waltz with Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated... More>>
Published: January 15, 2009
 From Reverence to Rape in Defiance Hollywood plunders meaning from the Holocaust – again
Will there be a special Academy Award for Best Aryan Costume Design this year? Everywhere you turn in the movies, it's swastika flags and SS... More>>
Published: January 15, 2009
 Biggie, Small Notorious B.I.G., made B.L.A.N.D.
Notorious, about a crack dealer who becomes an iconic rapper who becomes a tragic legend, is the first film George Tillman Jr. has directed since... More>>
Published: January 15, 2009
 Forgiven in Gran Torino Clint Eastwood finds salvation
Walt Kowalski growls a lot — a dyspeptic rumble that wells up from deep inside his belly when he catches sight of his midriff-baring... More>>
Published: January 08, 2009
 The Haunting on Revolutionary Road Winslet and DiCaprio awake to the nightmare
No writer ever gazed deeper or more despairingly into the prison of middle-class American conformity than Richard Yates, which may explain why... More>>
Published: January 08, 2009
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