• September 20, 2013
• At Home, Documentary

Salinger is a fascinating, frustrating, and more than a little creepy film that digs and digs and digs to find the dark secrets behind the persona of a famously...

• November 15, 2011
• At Home, Drama, Thriller

I’ll be honest, I had zero interest in seeing it. The trailers made it look tedious and Elizabethan and, to me, woefully dull. After sitting through a recent string...

• September 1, 2010
• At Home, Comedy, Drama, Family

I would just like to refute the notion that Author! Author! is a stinky Al Pacino movie. Maybe the people who said it was didn’t see Gigli. Maybe they...

• June 23, 2010
• At Home, Drama

I spent a significant chunk of my senior year of high school reading Anna Karenina cover to cover and then researching the life of Leo Tolstoy. I learned a...

• February 21, 2007
• At Home, Drama

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, “Oh for the love of all that is holy, give me a freakin’ BREAK! Another preachy Hollywood movie about a white teacher...

• October 21, 2006
• At Home, Drama

I can only think that Philip Seymour Hoffman must have had a blast playing Truman Capote. In fact, had this movie come out when I was younger, I would...

• December 24, 2002
• At Home, Drama

The Nose. Much hubbub has been made about The Nose. Specifically Nicole Kidman’s prosthetic nose in her role as Virginia Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed...

• January 21, 2001
• At Home, Drama

First off, I declare a five-year moratorium on movie titles with active-verb-plus-noun titles. Chasing Amy was fine, clever, and original. But then came Saving Grace, Finding Forrester, the indie...

• December 29, 2000
• At Home, Drama

In this film biography, Bardem portrays Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas who was persecuted not only for being political and a writer, but for being gay in a time when...