THE THREE MUSKETEERS: Not At Any Price – All For None and None For All If the last couple of Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the current Sherlock Holmes franchise had a really nasty, dirty weeke...
Ugliness abounds, unless your title is Argo. OPENINGS: CLOUD ATLAS (Warners) will be the tallest tree in the weekend’s bonzai forest, but that’s small comfort for a movie that cost $100M (plus heavy marketi...
ANONYMOUS: Watch It At Home – The Bard Was A Beard, Claims Wheezy Expose ANONYMOUS is history tailored for the 1%. Although screenwriter John Orloff and director Roland Emmerich have swirled it into a comp...
THE BIG YEAR: Watch It At Home – Very Small Pleasures THE BIG YEAR is an amiable, good-natured comedy that’s so insubstantial it seems to fly out of your memory even as you’re watching it. If...
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3: Worth A Ticket – More Minimalist Bumps In the Dark The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise is a movie studio’s dream come true. The concept itself demands a no-star cast, a very li...
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...