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Blog postWay way better when it's being funny. This is the best work I've seen from Sam Rockwell.
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Blog postVery funny performances from -- count 'em -- Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and especially Mary-Louise Parker.
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Blog postJust about the funniest movie of the summer, and irrefutable evidence that, if we could eliminate most of the live action directors, actors, and studio execs from movies, the world would be a funnier place. It would be a world with no Lone Rangers, no White House Downs, no R.I.P.Ds.; a world where Lindsay Lohan would find true love; a world where Adam Sandler would be an animated character under the close supervision of talented writers.
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Blog postDenzel Washington is great again. Mark Wahlberg is pretty terrific. A potentially classic shoot-em-up dragged down by the final act. Too much bang-bang, not enough hah-hah.
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Blog postPretty good, smart, but I've seen scarier.
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Blog postWoody Allen's over-the-top out-of-this-world Oscar-worthy tragicomedy. (That sentence ties my record for most hyphenated words ever.) N.b. I've actually witnessed train-crash nervous breakdowns like Cate Blanchett's in Palm Beach.
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Blog postSomewhat simplistic fairy tale (this one from the left, politically). The first hour worked very well for me -- then the movie seemed to lose its nerve, even as polemic. Matt Damon is terrific in the lead role (apparently as the only white man left in LA).
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Blog postJust your typical all-American family -- a drug dealer, a stripper, a runaway, a virgin. Funny at times.
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Blog postThought it would be better, but it's still plenty good. I grew up with kids like this -- some of whom still don't know what hit them.
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Blog postI could pick things about this film apart -- but it does offer a useful history lesson for a country that refuses to study its own history.
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Blog postAs in getaway from this one as fast you can. I like Ethan Hawke as an actor -- which made this film even more horrifying.
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Blog postI loved, loved, loved Shaun of the Dead. Unfortunately this was no Shaun of the Dead.
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Blog postFrom the people who brought us the film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy -- another smart, well-acted Brit suspenser.
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Blog postThe Godfather done sort of funny.
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Blog postYou'll love it, or you'll hate it. Really long, very dark, frequently depressing, violent at times, and I'm one of the people who actually loved it.
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Blog postThis feels like a story that comes out of the insight that you would expect a 17-year-old to have when they realize there's a difference between love and lust. So if that seems powerful to you than this is movie for you. Interesting side note -- when I bought my ticket, the woman at the counter said that a lot of people had complained that movie was too gross.
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Blog postThere's something wrong with this storytelling. The movie should've worked, but it doesn't. Hollywood seems to think that people don't like thrillers any more, but what they don't like is so-so movies.
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Blog postI loved Ron Howard's early films, and what a treat to see him teamed with a very good camera man, who actually moves the camera. A good story here, even if you don't give a hoot about race cars (I don't).
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Blog postEvery once in a while a miracle comes along at the movie theaters -- this is one of them. Crazy thought: if everybody in Congress and the Executive Branch saw this film -- maybe they'd restart this country's engines and head on back to earth.
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Blog postA fascinating, important story -- that should've been a much more fascinating and important movie. Needed a better script and better direction.
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Blog postVery brave of the director to do a remake of a movie originally shot by Brian De Palma. The direction is strong, coherent, nicely theatrical.
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Blog postSad to see James Gandolfini in his last role but this is a well-told, realistic, often funny adult love story.
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Blog postProbably my favorite flick so far this year. Definitely the most exciting. Tom Hanks shows dramatic chops we haven't seen out of him before.
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Blog postPerfectly fine, but should have been even better.
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Blog postA powerful story and film that pulls no punches. Nor should it. Will make some of us feel even more self-righteous, others angry, others victimized. An award-winner for sure.
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Blog postLike a pretentious Broadway play, but with moving pictures. Great cast. Talky as hell, but I liked it. Most people, I suspect, won't. In a big way.
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Blog postTerrific storytelling, but the film got me wondering -- where are all these infamous gatekeepers? The first Hunger Games book/movie was all about kids killing other kids in the woods. Catching Fire is basically a spectacle featuring bread and circuses. I know, I know, the heartless fascists are responsible -- but does that argument really hold water? As I said, though -- a fine story.
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Blog postBlue Is the Warmest Color has been written and talked about as soft porn, and perhaps it is, but it's also one of the most honest young adult stories in years, even more so than The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Blog postNot enough funny, too much schmaltzy.
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Blog postJosh Brolin is very good. This oddball movie from Spike Lee? Not so much.
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Blog postGreat book (one of my all-time favorites), terrific cast -- but the movie is overwrought and overly sentimental. Not a disaster but definitely a disappointment.
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Blog postI was a little disappointed, possibly because I had such high hopes. Lots of inspired pieces, but also some flat stretches. At least the critics are finally giving David O. Russell his due.
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Blog postFor me, this movie needed a writer. Or maybe just fewer oddball ad-libs. Sometimes funny, sometimes funny-peculiar.
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Blog postIf you like Tyler Perry movies -- and I do -- you'll really like this one.
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Blog postMostly missing from the mostly four star reviews on Scorsese's latest is the useful information (for most people) that the f-bomb is dropped about 10,000 times during the film's three-hour running time. Also useful to some moviegoers is the fact that the movie is soft-porn and a drug fest. The Wolf of Wall Street is also very funny at times and has inspired star turns by Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey and Jonah Hill. Your move, moviegoers. I obviously made my move.
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Blog postGreat story -- but an average movie. Idris Elba would have been a spectacular Alex Cross. He wanted to do the movie but no studio believed in him. I sure do.
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Blog postBrilliant, not a false note or wasted image, and excruciatingly boring at times. Reminded me why I hated folk music.
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Blog postKevin Hart is about to get extremely, insanely hot. I hope that he grows with fame rather than repeating himself until he flames out.
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Blog postA miracle. Sweet, sad, funny, and oh-so-very-human as we humans enter the world of WALL-E.
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Blog postA novelist goes to Hollywood and, miraculously, gets to keep some control over her hugely popular book. What's not to love about that?
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Blog postI just never felt the chemistry worked here and it's a big surprise Jason Reitman has done such spectacular work with Up In the Air.
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Blog postThis is not a Tom Clancy film, this is not a Jack Ryan film. This is not, in my opinion, a very well directed film. But it's still fun to watch.
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Blog postBoth movies were better than I would've thought. 3 days is quite funny in spots, and I remain a Kevin Costner fan. The trouble with RoboCop is that they've tried to write a reasonably intelligent script for a somewhat dumb, though very commercial concept.
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Blog postAcademy Award nominee for best foreign film. Political suspense done as well as it can be done.
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Blog postIf you had to be trapped on an airplane for a couple of hours -- this is the way to do it. Good performances, high suspense, high marks from me.
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