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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 Grey

So it's come to this: Liam Neeson, a pack of wolves, and a filmmaker with delusions of...

Haywire

Haywire is a lot like last year's Drive. What both lack in substance, they...

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve (The Film) Drops The BallAs a sometimes film critic...

Shame

Sex without the pleasure — and you thought starving to death in an Irish prison was rough....

 

Hugo

Who's the audience for Hugo? With roots in the fantasy/adventure genres and...

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...

Warrior

“Warrior” written and directed by Gavin O’Conner is a tale of an estranged family of...

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...