THE BIJOU LIMITED RELEASE REVIEW: “A Better Life”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hugo”
HUGO: Worth A Ticket – If Only For the Visual Splendors Paramount doesn’t have much choice but to market Martin Scorsese’s HUGO as a family movie: it’s got a PG rating, a young boy and ...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “Past Lives,” “Fairyland” & “Infinity Pool”
PAST LIVES (A24): The playwright Celine Song makes an impressive feature writing/directing debut with the lovely, eloquent Past Lives. The film is sort of the opposite of Sliding Doors and all of the multiversal ente...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Amazing Spider-Man”
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 SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Jack & Jill”
JACK AND JILL: Not At Any Price – 2 Adam Sandlers is 2 Too Many Does anyone really expect an Adam Sandler movie to be good anymore? Seriously, if you put aside his occasional relatively serious effort...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”
It was all so cute when it started… David Yates’ 2009 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE is surprisingly funny at times–surprising, because in all other ways the film was, up to that point, by far t...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Woman In Black”
THE WOMAN IN BLACK: Watch It At Home – Fun, But Creaky As Its Doors THE WOMAN IN BLACK is so aggressively old-fashioned it sometimes feels like the horror movie version of The Artist. A haunted ho...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Breaking Dawn Part I”
THE TWILIGHT SAGA – BREAKING DAWN PART 1: Watch It At Home – The Saga Sags In Slow Prelude To The End The worldwide phenomenon that is Twilight often finds itself compared to Harry Potter, and...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “This Is 40”
THIS IS 40 – Watch It At Home – Judd Apatow’s Midlife Crisis Comedy-Drama is Both Ambitious and Bland As Judd Apatow has matured as a filmmaker, he’s staked out a piece of territory that’s...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Machine Gun Preacher”
MACHINE GUN PREACHER: Watch It At Home – A True Story Rings False MACHINE GUN PREACHER simply isn’t good enough for the story it wants to tell. And the story, a true one, is remarkable: Sam Child...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Dictator”
THE DICTATOR: Watch It At Home – Little Shock, No Awe With Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen made one of the noisiest splashes into movie stardom of the past decade, daring and distinctive. The question was wheth...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Help”
THE HELP – Worth A Ticket: The Story May Be Soft, The Acting Isn’t THE HELP is–and I mean this in a good way–a big-screen Hallmark Hall of Fame. It’s a long, absorbing, emotional...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Wrath of the Titans”
WRATH OF THE TITANS: Watch It At Home – Put Back the Kraken The producers of WRATH OF THE TITANS swore that this time the 3D would be better than it was in 2010’s Clash of the Titans, and you know wh...