THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “In Time”
IN TIME: Watch It At Home – The Clock Never Really Starts Ticking Andrew Niccol wants to be a populist moviemaker of ideas, but he just doesn’t have the knack. Niccol’s ideas are genuinely im...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tower Heist”
TOWER HEIST: Watch It At Home – Hardly Luxury-Class There may never have been a director more proud of being a hack than Brett Ratner. In a recent NY Times profile, Ratner boasts (when he’s ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Vow”
THE VOW: Not Even For Free – Forget About It This year has brought us a far-fetched, but ultimately moving and deeply romantic story about a couple who have finally gotten together and married after...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cowboys & Aliens”
COWBOYS & ALIENS – Watch It At Home: Genre Mash-Up Zaps Itself In the Foot It’s admirable, in a way, that for much of its length, COWBOYS AND ALIENS is willing to be more of a western than a scif...
Roger Ebert (1942-2013): The Balcony Is Closed
Roger Ebert, after enduring cancer with extraordinary fortitude for over a decade, passed away today. Ebert was one of the smartest, hardest-working and most passionate film critics of his generation, and almost certai...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “One Day”
ONE DAY – Watch It At Home: An Off-Day What went wrong with ONE DAY? It’s been clear for a while that its studio, Focus Features, didn’t have great confidence in the film: first they post...
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...
ShowbuzzDaily Sundance 2022 Reviews: “Sharp Stick” & “Babysitter”
SHARP STICK (no distrib): Lena Dunham is certainly no stranger to the concept of art as provocation, but it’s difficult to understand what Sharp Stick, her first feature film in a dozen years, and her first solo ...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Beautiful Creatures”
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES: Watch It At Home – Many Witches, Little Magic BEAUTIFUL CREATURES can’t be dismissed as merely an overlong TV episode meant for the CW, but it never really comes together, either. Ric...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”
It isn’t often that one needs to invoke Intolerance to describe a current film, but CLOUD ATLAS demands it. Like D.W. Griffith’s epic, it intercuts between stories taking place across hundreds of years o...