Film Reviews

Tribeca Film Festival – MöBIUS
Eric Rochant's Mobius "is a love story inside a spy movie" set Monaco, Brussels and Moscow. ...

The Central Park 5
The Central Park 5 Featuring: Raymond Santana & Sarah BurnsInterviewer: Lorenzo...

Hunger Games
Superfans be easy. If your barometer for measuring the success of Hollywood's Hunger Games...

The Woman In Black
Recipe for a Hollywood horror flick: pick a screenplay with a vaguely creepy-sounding title...

The Descendants
Alexander Payne paints a different picture of Hawaii. In the opening montage of his new film The...

Tower Heist
Everyone's excited for the new Brett Ratner movie, right? Jonesing for another marginal...

Paranormal Activity 3
Reigning king of the "Gotcha!" moment, Paranormal Activity is back – and though the...

50/50
50/50 is the anti-MOW. Hot off the festival circuit as the much buzzed-about "cancer comedy,"...

Moneyball
Take my review of Moneyball with a grain of salt. Its two-and-a-quarter-hour running time...

Drive
After a summer of cheap thrills, Drive delivers thrills on the cheap. With a budget Michael Bay...

Attack the Block
Some may be quick to equate “Attack the Block” with another quirky genre-comedy or two which...

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Horror is kind of like porn. Either it's convincing and effective or it's embarrassing and...

Fright Night
"Fright Night" is a remake of a 1985 movie of the same name. The original writer director, Tom...

The Help
The Help is based on a book written by Kathryn Stockett and adapted to the big screen by Taylor...

30 Minutes or Less
Jokes are overrated. The best comedies cull humor from character flaws, and while the cast of 30...

Beginners
"Beginners," directed by Mike Mills ("Thumbsucker"), asks the question, can you make a captivating...

Cowboys & Aliens
Cowboys & Aliens sticks to its guns. Symbolically, that might suggest a certain strength, but...

Captain America
The sorry state of comic book movies is laid bare in Captain America: The First Avenger. The star...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
"It all ends." So reads the succinct tagline for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2....

Horrible Bosses
Director, Seth Gordon has a lot of heart. His first feature, "King of Kong: A Fistful of...

Buck
Buck Brannaman is the real life inspiration for Robert Redford's "The Horse Whisperer." His real...

Cars 2
Cars 2 is all about Mater. Mater is Larry the Cable Guy. You do the math. Where Pixar's other...

Larry Crowne
Larry Crowne is the second directorial effort from mega-star Tom Hanks. His last big screen flick...

The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick's existentialist experiment The Tree of Life triggered walkouts, exasperated sighs,...

Bad Teacher
It's a wonderful place for us lovers of raunch when thanks to the success of hard-R comedies we get...
Green Lantern
Here we go again. Another summer, another superhero franchise trying to become a trilogy. Green...

Super 8
It's getting harder and harder to make movies like Super 8. Without the marketing muscle of a...

Midnight in Paris
It pleases me to see great artists that shine well into old age. If one were to look at Woody...

X-Men: First Class
I should mention here at the top that I’m a huge fan of the X-Men comic books. Though they’d...

The Hangover Part II
In 2009 The Hangover was a surprise hit. It followed Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu...

Cave of Forgotten Dreams
No one shoots 32,000 year-old cave paintings like Werner Herzog. First off, they're not allowed....

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Pirates of the Caribbean debuted atop a cresting wave, but after a hat trick of subpar sequels,...

Everything Must Go
Everything Must Go stars Will Ferrell in one of his few dramatic performances. In it he...

Bridesmaids
It's clear Bridesmaids got greenlit as "The Hangover for chicks," but to condemn it as such...








