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February 2013

February 23, 2013

Finding Nemo (Stanton and Unkrich, 2003) — 10 Years Later

The older and more experienced I get, the more confidence I have in my own...

February 10, 2013

Amour (Haneke, 2012)

Negative reviews or critically acclaimed movies are like exclamation points: one only gets an indeterminate...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Wirkola, 2013)

From column one select a famous name (historical or fictional). From column two select a...

January 19, 2013

Crossroad (Youssefian 2012)

The problem with Crossroad is not that it is Christian nor even that it is...

January 12, 2013

Little Red Wagon (Anspaugh, 2012)

The simple narrative and self-consciously "PG" script will no doubt prompt Lifetime movie comparisons from...

January 10, 2013

2012 NCFCA Awards

The North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA) will announce its awards for the best films...

January 05, 2013

The Life of David Gale (Parker, 2003) — 10 Years Later

Film critics get asked what movie they hate the most almost as much as what...

December 2012

December 28, 2012

2012 Top Ten

It was pretty apparent for me early on that 2012 was a banner year for...

December 21, 2012

Signs — 10 Years Later

I imagine that if I had told fans of Signs that ten years after its...

December 21, 2012

Red Hook Summer (Lee, 2012)

All of which might explained why Spike Lee’s latest film, Red Hook Summer, manages to...

December 19, 2012

Les Misérables (Hooper, 2012)

Watching Les Misérables is a bit like listening to a young pop star do a...

December 13, 2012

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Jackson, 2012)

Parts are camp comedy, parts CGI sword slashing, parts solemn intonations about fate and when...

December 02, 2012

The Central Park Five (Burns, Burns, and McMahon)

The most depressing thing about The Central Park Five, for me, was its only hazy...

November 2012

November 25, 2012

For Better or Until Something Better Comes Along

Love is the secular American religion. It is the consideration around which all decisions are...

November 21, 2012

The Sessions (Lewin, 2012)

The same thing that makes The Sessions better than expected is what makes it naggingly...

November 17, 2012

Love Birds (Murphy, 2011)

Love Birds is an innocuous romantic comedy from New Zealand featuring a sad mope (Rhys...

November 12, 2012

Head Games (James, 2012)

I will say that judging nobody but myself, I feel convicted for the money and...

November 09, 2012

Chely Wright: Wish Me Away (Birleffi and Kopf, 2011)

Chely Wright is by all accounts and as represented in Wish Me Away a bright,...

November 09, 2012

Skyfall (Mendes, 2012)

There's nothing seriously wrong with Skyfall, except, perhaps, a little too much Christopher Nolan envy.

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Macky Alston Interview

“God’s Mandate is to Love One Another” Macky Alston’s father was a Presbyterian minister who...

October 20, 2012

Yogawoman (Clere & McIntyre, 2011)

The easiest defense of Yogawoman, if defense is needed, is that its leisurely pace and...

October 15, 2012

Scenes From a Parish (Rutenbeck, 2009)

James Rutenbeck's Scenes from a Parish is the sort of documentary essay film that makes...

October 12, 2012

Simon & The Oaks (Ohlin, 2012)

There have now been enough films about--or set in and around-- the Holocaust that it...

September 2012

September 20, 2012

Thanks for Sharing (Blumberg, 2012)

Long before the soundtrack rhapsodizes about "tender comrades" in the film's final scene, Thanks for...

September 16, 2012

Room 237 (Ascher, 2012)

In the picture above do you see: a) a scene from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining?;...

September 15, 2012

Artifact (Cubbins, 2012)

Given the target audience's love for Jared Leto and Thirty Seconds to Mars, the built...

September 13, 2012

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang (Cantet, 2012)

If you had asked me to pick a director best suited to adapt an Oates...

September 12, 2012

Great Expectations (Newell, 2012)

A surprisingly emotionally engaging film, Mike Newell's Great Expectations is easily the best Dickens adaptation...

September 11, 2012

To the Wonder (Malick, 2012)

I didn't hate To The Wonder. I didn't much like it, but for me and...

September 11, 2012

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (Gibney, 2012)

During a Q&A at the Toronto International Film Festival, Alex Gibney opined that the inference...

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