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I was never especially excited to see Because I Said So, but I didn’t think I’d actually hate it. I mean, it’s pure girly fluff—how offensive is that? Hah! You’d be surprised. Three minutes in I was making a face like a baby who’s just tried some vile new...
Dench stars as Barbara Covett, a stern and spinsterly history teacher at a British high school, who’s tolerated and respected—but not particularly liked—by her colleagues. Having taught for more than three decades, she’s something of an institution in her own right, and serves as the moral compass for staff...
Ben Stiller is Larry Daley, a divorced dad who’s suffered a string of bad ideas that led to crappy jobs, multiple relocations and assorted disappointments for his pre-teen son, Nick (Jake Cherry). Desperate to impress the boy, Larry agrees to take the only job a beleaguered career counselor (Stiller’s...
You will not a find a more entertaining, heartfelt or unapologetically spirited documentary anywhere this year. You won’t. In fact, I dare you to try. Because, seriously, Summercamp! is fantastic. It’s hilarious. It’s moving. It’s nostalgic and sentimental. It’s a total blast from start to finish. And my reluctance to us...
Got it? Good, because then maybe you can watch the movie without the knotted brain and perplexed expression that overcame me about 30 minutes in and lasted through the closing credits. I’m not sure what possessed oft-maligned director Tony Scott to try to make an action movie even more...
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank Daniel Craig for doing something that no other actor playing superspy 007 has ever been able to do before: get me interested in seeing a James Bond film. And, despite a veritable fan uproar when he was announced as the new...
He’s like an angry little Tazmanian devil, whirling about, arms flailing, screaming at everyone and destroying everything in his path. Halfway through the movie, during one of his explosive rants, I flashed back to Linda’s comments about Rufus Sewell our joint review of The Illusionist and I started imagining...
I loved the first 95 minutes of American Gun. The film examines (you guessed it) the role of guns in American society. Through three separate storylines, we see how guns shape lives from Oregon to Virginia, and the acting is so good, the characters so compelling, that I was...
It’s not that the movie is bad, because it isn’t. In fact, it’s quite ambitious and somewhat enjoyable. But it does try to cram in so many different genres that it feels a bit like a glitzy, bouncy, colorful mess. André “André 3000” Benjamin and Antwan “Big Boi” Patton...
I’m tempted to dismiss Step Up as a trite and predictable amalgam of every teenage dance movie ever made. The story goes something like this: Good girl meets bad boy. They dance to catchy music, fall in love, realize all of their wildest dreams, and live happily ever after....
This Superman, played by newcomer Brandon Routh, has really good skin and eerily dark blue eyes (in that weird colored-contact way that seems to be all the rage these days in movies). His various expressions barely flicker across his face (no, he doesn’t emote much), and his spit-curl is...
Really, the above five statements are about all you need to know to enjoy director Robert Altman’s understated, down-home look at the fictional final broadcast of Garrison Keillor’s real-life titular radio show. The actual broadcast has been going on for more than 30 years, and still originates out of...
