The Adventures of Tintin–Movie Review
The Adventures of Tintin represents a landmark of sorts for computer-generated animation. This is the first CG-animated movie I have seen that crosses over the Uncanny Valley. After watching it… Read more »
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My Week with Marilyn–Movie Review
My Week with Marilyn is a high-minded British historical drama based on some autobiographical writings by filmmaker Colin Clark. In 1956 Clark (Eddie Redmayne) was an eager young college graduate… Read more »
The Descendents–Movie Review
The Descendents has to be considered a comedy-drama since it deals in a straightforward way with some fairly grim events, yet manages to find a fair amount of humor in… Read more »
Young Adult–Movie Review
In this holiday season, when the theaters are filled with crowds taking the kids to upbeat and uplifting movies, maybe there’s room for a dark but insightful feel-bad comedy like… Read more »
Hugo–Movie Review
What should we expect to get if Martin Scorsese made a heartwarming family film? As it turns out, Hugo is mostly a love poem to the early pioneers of film… Read more »
The Ides of March–Movie Review
The Ides of March is a competent political thriller. It is well-written and well-acted but it suffers a bit from the Hollywood Cocoon effect. In a time and place much… Read more »
50/50–Movie Review
50/50 is sort of like a Judd Apatow comedy except it’s about cancer. The movie is loosely based on the experiences of screenwriter Will Reiser who is now in apparent… Read more »
Moneyball–Movie Review
Moneyball is an unusual sports movie, perhaps a sports movie for people who hate sports movies. A slightly fictionalized adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book, it ignores the usual sports movie… Read more »
Contagion–Movie Review
Contagion is an unusual disaster film: tightly written, thoughtful and totally plausible. Pretty much everything that is shown could actually happen and in fact is not particularly unlikely. The movie… Read more »
The Guard–Movie Review
The Guard is a darkly funny Irish crime drama that seems to owe a debt both to American Westerns and the plays of David Mamet. (It’s the sort of movie… Read more »