Movies
Short Reviews
Hotel Transylvania
October 4th, 2012
Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) operates a swanky resort for his fellow outcasts and monsters. Read more »
Short Reviews
Won’t Back Down
October 4th, 2012
In this hyperbolic statement on the dismal state of public education in this country, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a single mother who takes more than a passing interest in her daughter’s flailing education. Read more »
Movies
Cop Cam
This first-person battle against drug cartels elevates the video-game aesthetic
September 27th, 2012
Writer-director David Ayer has described his new film End of Watch as akin to “watching YouTube—where something in your mind tells you this is real.” This film is like YouTube meets Training Day in a lot of ways.” (Ayer wrote Training Day, which won Denzel Washington an Oscar for his role as a dirty LAPD detective.) So: What does that YouTube comparison mean, exactly? Read more »
Movies
‘Master’ of the Form
Boogie Nights director turns a nervous breakdown into an American classic
September 27th, 2012
“I need to get the lighting right,” mutters the man with the camera in The Master, one of the few truly vital and unruly American films in recent years. Read more »
Short Reviews
Finding Nemo 3-D
September 27th, 2012
This is not just another 3-D conversion; it’s an encore of modern animation’s gold standard. Read more »
Short Reviews
Dredd 3-D
September 27th, 2012
In the futuristic, vermin-infested Mega City, the building known as Peach Tree is run by a gangland ruler played by Lena Headey, who controls the flow of the latest drug, Slo-Mo. Read more »
Short Reviews
Trouble With the Curve
September 27th, 2012
Clint Eastwood plays Gus, an aging Atlanta Braves baseball scout whose eyes are failing and whose contract is up. Read more »
Movie Review
Billionaire’s Blues
Richard Gere’s performance leads us to like—instead of occupy—Wall Street
September 20th, 2012
It’s an unseemly request by a movie, to ask us to root for the lying, scrambling but extremely well-coiffed hedge fund billionaire weasel played by Richard Gere in the new film Arbitrage. But there it is. The movie does ask, and to varying degrees, we comply. Read more »
Movies
Finding Greatness
This classic looks even better in 3-D
September 20th, 2012
Perhaps it’s not enough to warrant shelling out 3-D dollars to go see a movie that’s long been one of the best-selling home videos. If you have kids, you already have this at home. But Finding Nemo, back in theaters nine years after its release, is a reminder that sometimes “instant” and “classic” can go together in a sentence describing a great movie. Read more »
Short Reviews
Bachelorette
September 20th, 2012
Well, this isn’t that far removed from Bridesmaids, is it? Four friends have reunited because one of them is getting married. Read more »
