Movie Review: Chronicle Is the Angry Teen’s Superhero Movie ... in a Good Way
Instead of using masks and big CGI battles, it shows what a sullen adolescent might actually do with superpowers.
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Movie Review: Don't Spend Money on One for the Money
The only tension generated comes from the awkwardness of watching actors who clearly don’t want to be anywhere near each other.
Movie Review: More of the Same in Underworld: Awakening
There's less heavy-handed mythology, more heads exploding.
Movie Review: The Lifeless Red Tails
It’s an uncertain hodgepodge of impulses and desires that never coheres enough to even crash and burn.
Movie Review: The Enjoyably Pure Artifice of A Joyful Noise
It's too transparently corny and manipulative to resent.
Movie Review: The Admirably Dingy, Grimy Action Flick Contraband
It's an atmospheric, effectively nasty, quietly tense film that’s a lot more than one can hope for in the dog days of January.
Movie Review: In A Separation, Every Single Character Comes Up Short in Life
What makes it so good is that no one is bad.
Movie Review: The Disposable Exorcism Mockumentary The Devil Inside
It’s always fun to watch bony, hollow-eyed white women grotesquely contort their bodies, call priests “cocksuckers,” and hurl them against walls, but the ending reeks.
Edelstein: The Iron Lady Makes a Case for the Human Being Beneath Thatcher’s Mask
Meryl Streep the impersonator reproduces the music in her subject’s voice and through it the workings of a mind.
Movie Review: The Bigger, Better Adventures of Tintin
Spielberg becomes the slapstick-action wizard of his (and our) wildest dreams.
Movie Review: Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Brings the Hate
Rooney Mara is ... functional.
Movie Review: Carnage, or No Exit for Anxious Breeders
The pleasure, such as it is, comes from anticipating the land mines and then gauging the scale of the devastation.
Movie Review: The Nonsensical, Wonderful Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
It’s surprising, even moving, how often Cruise throws the ball to Renner.
Movie Review: The Maximum Clutter of Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows
This sequel is overblown and inelegant.
Movie Review: Young Adult Only Starts Out Strong and Sour
The problem with Reitman isn’t that he’s shallow, but that he thinks he’s deep and edgy.
Movie Review: Jonah Hill’s Inconsistently Funny The Sitter
This is one confused movie. That's not wholly bad.
Movie Review: The Impossibly Arty Sleeping Beauty
“Your vagina will not be penetrated. Your vagina will be a temple.”
Movie Review: Takeshi Kitano’s Stifling and Beautiful Outrage
Even when a guy is getting stabbed in the ear with a chopstick, Outrage is totally controlled.
Movie Reviews: On Shame and A Dangerous Method, the Michael Fassbender Double Feature
Compared to the trendy despair of Shame, A Dangerous Method is a road map to happiness, chock-full of tips on how to reconcile our disparate impulses.
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