Morning Glory–Movie Review
Morning Glory is a likable, amusing lightweight comedy about a morning news program. Rachel McAdams plays Mary Richards Becky Fuller, the perky workaholic producer of a morning news show for… Read more »
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1–Movie Review
The penultimate movie in the Harry Potter series is, like it’s immediate predecessors, primarily aimed at those who have already read the books. I have not read the books but… Read more »
Inside Job–Movie Review
Inside Job is a documentary about the financial collapse of 2008. This is (God help me) the second serious-minded documentary that I have reviewed in the space of a month…. Read more »
Secretariat–Movie Review
Secretariat is a biopic about a racehorse, similar to the 2003 movie Seabiscuit. Of the two I think Seabiscuit is the better movie, probably because it had better story material… Read more »
Hereafter–Movie Review
Hereafter is a thoughtful and interesting movie with a dramatic start and a wistful, low-key ending that may disappoint some viewers. It starts with a bang, or rather with a… Read more »
Waiting for Superman–Movie Review
Waiting for Superman is a documentary that is likely to leave you both angry and frustrated. It does a pretty good job of illustrating the problem with America’s schools, but… Read more »
The Social Network–Movie Review
The first thing that everyone wants to know about The Social Network is whether this is the true story of how Mark Zuckerberg and a few of his Harvard classmates… Read more »
Easy A–Movie Review
Easy A deals with a potentially serious subject: the tendency of teenagers to turn like a pack of wolves on anyone who doesn’t fit in. But this isn’t some gritty… Read more »
Going the Distance–Movie Review
There’s something rather retro about Going the Distance. At first I thought it was set in the early 1990s. Then I realized that the technology is all wrong. Nevertheless there… Read more »
Salt–Movie Review
Salt is a bleak and violent spy thriller. It has a competent cast and a steady stream of special effects, but I didn’t enjoy it much. Evelyn Salt (Angelina Jolie)… Read more »