Up–Movie Review
Up is probably the best movie Pixar has made since Toy Story. It isn’t the sort of game-changing breakthrough that Toy Story was in its day, but it is a… Read more »
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Management–Movie Review
Management is a small, low-budget screwball comedy. It’s lightweight, but parts of it are very funny. Mike (Steve Zahn) is stuck in a small town in Arizona, working as the… Read more »
Star Trek–Movie Review
TRAFFIC COP: Citizen, what is your name? BLOND PUNK KID: My name is James Tiberius Kirk! If you were a fan of the original Star Trek TV series, you pretty… Read more »
State of Play–Movie Review
State of Play is a solid, professional thriller, sharply written with some fine performances. The Washington Globe is a major metropolitan newspaper with a newsroom full of the usual assortment… Read more »
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind–Anime Review
Technically this wasn’t made by Studio Ghibli but most people think of it as a Studio Ghibli film, since this was the movie that got the studio started. Hayao Miyazaki… Read more »
Adventureland–Movie Review
Adventureland is being marketed as a a typical teen coming-of-age comedy, and it sort of is that, but it may not be quite what the fans expect. It’s a bit… Read more »
The Problem with 3-D Movies
The movie industry is thrilled with the first-weekend box office success of Monsters vs Aliens and is convinced that 3-D movies of this sort are the wave of the future…. Read more »
Monsters vs. Aliens–Movie Review
I went to see Monsters vs Aliens partly because I had a chance to see it in 3-D, and I wanted to see how good the latest version of the… Read more »
Spirited Away–Anime Review
This is probably the most acclaimed anime ever made. It won the 2002 Oscar for Best Animated Feature, the only foreign-language film ever to do so. It is one of… Read more »
Knowing–Movie Review
Few things are sadder than a good idea badly executed. Knowing seems to have a good idea at its core. If it had a talented writer and a skilled director… Read more »