THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: Watch It At Home – Not So Amazing Part of the unwritten suspension of disbelief deal we have with the movie studios is that although we know they’re going to constantly tell u...
THE AVENGERS: Worth A Ticket – A Fun Summer Movie, No More Or Less It’s easy to forget that THE AVENGERS is, you know, a movie. It’s perhaps the ultimate example of corporate intellectual pro...
The year’s Top 10 movies are here, and a variety of honorable mentions are here. But now for something completely different… Along with the egg nog and tinsel, there’s a certain undeniable seasonal pleasu...
GOD’S COUNTRY (no distrib): A deliberative character study that’s also a thriller of sorts, anchored by one of the best performances of Thandiwe Newton’s career. When two hunters (Joris Jarsky and Y...
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED – Worth A Ticket – A Circus Indeed There’s a certain luxury in being DreamWorks Animation. Pixar gets the awards and the acclaim, but it’s also held ...
THE FIRST TIME may be too lovable for its own good. Jonathan Kasdan’s teen romance, which premiered in the Dramatic Competition at Sundance, couldn’t be more straightforward: in its opening minutes, it in...
ONE SECOND (Neon – TBD): Zhang Yimou’s film was notoriously the subject of controversy with the Chinese government, which held it back from its originally scheduled film festival debut in 2019, and forced s...
Warning: this piece will discuss details of the storyline of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES as well as the other Batman films. GIANT SPOILERS WILL ABOUND; proceed at your own risk. Christopher Nolan is remarkable among the gr...
LARRY CROWNE: Watch It At Home – Giant Stars/Tiny Ambitions Allow me to play Nostradamus for a moment. the day will come–and it’s not far off–when you’ll be sitting in front of yo...