THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Three Musketeers”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
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: “Final Destination 5”
FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home: Death Takes No Holiday There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about. Let’...
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 ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Wanderlust”
WANDERLUST: Watch It At Home – Hippy Jokes Thawed Out From 1966 The new WANDERLUST demonstrates the strengths and limitations of amiability in movies. Its stars, Jennifer Aniston and Paul R...
THE 11 BEST 10 FILMS OF 2014 and Other Movie Thoughts
There was a distinct feeling in 2014 that movies–the business and art of mainstream American film–reached a kind of tipping point. The industry seemed to collectively hit that moment in its flight when so m...
Sundance 2023 Reviews: “The Persian Version,” “The Starling Girl,” & “The Accidental Getaway Driver”
THE PERSIAN VERSION (Sony Classics): Maryam Keshavarz’s dramedy won the Sundance Audience Award in the US Dramatic Competition, and it’s a smart mixture of broad comedy and family drama. The comedy is mos...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Captain America: The First Avenger”
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER – Worth A Ticket: Marvel Goes Back To the Future There’s a certain irony in the fact that, in this summer of Super 8 and its Spielberg rapture, the most succes...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Puncture”
PUNCTURE: Worth A Ticket – A Bracingly Dark Ride No one is going to see PUNCTURE in theaters, and that’s a shame, because unaccountably, it’s one of the best pictures around. “Unaccount...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “We Bought A Zoo”
WE BOUGHT A ZOO: Worth A Ticket – Cameron Crowe Pays His Dues and Keeps His Dignity There’s a classic line in Albert Brooks’s incredibly prescient 1979 Real Life where Brooks, as the pro...
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...