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October 2011

October 28, 2011

The Rum Diary (Robinson, 2011)

To say that Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary was an unfocused mess would be implying...

October 23, 2011

Garbo: The Spy (Roch, 2009)

Garbo: The Spy is a sometimes surprising, sometimes amusing, always engaging documentary about a subject...

October 14, 2011

The Thing ( van Heijningen, Jr., 2011)

I don't say that it was a poorly conceived or executed horror film. It certainly...

October 13, 2011

Courageous (Kendrick,2011)

I thought I was going to get away without having to write anything about Alex...

October 07, 2011

Real Steel (Levy, 2011)

Real Steel is a hard film to not like, so about half way through I...

October 03, 2011

African Chelsea (Roske, 2011)

I don't normally say a lot about short films in these pages, but I thought...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

50/50 (Levine, 2011)

Does it really fall on me to be the dissenting voice on this film? Grimace....

September 19, 2011

4th & Goal (Seavey, 2010)

One of the abiding mysteries of film criticism is why there are so few good...

September 16, 2011

Tyrannosaur (Considine, 2011)

Hannah is in an abusive relationship (and that's the understatement of the year), and the...

September 15, 2011

Habemus Papam (Moretti, 2011)

Ultimately Habemus Papam felt less like a blasphemy and more like a failure of imagination.

September 14, 2011

The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne & Dardenne, 2011)

Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have been so consistent and so dependable for the last fifteen...

September 11, 2011

A Separation (Farhadi, 2011)

Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a riveting domestic drama that works equally well as a...

August 2011

August 21, 2011

Dear Uncle Adolf: The Germans and Their Fuhrer (Kloft, 2010)

One of the academically interesting consequences of the end of the cold war has been...

August 05, 2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (Wyatt, 2011)

But rise they must, and rise they will, and when when the film remembers that...

July 2011

July 29, 2011

The Mummy Returns (Sommers, 2001)

Ten years ago, Ken called The Mummy Returns the worst movie of 2001. A decade...

July 15, 2011

Winnie the Pooh (Anderson and Hall, 2011)

There is a difference, I suppose, between feeling genuine delight at a film and simply...

July 12, 2011

Beginners (Mills, 2010)

So, when I say I am over the moon with a film--I mean it. And...

July 03, 2011

Memento (Nolan, 2001)

Memento is both better and worse than I remember it (no pun intended).

June 2011

June 29, 2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Bay, 2011)

My advice: don't sleep for a day before you go and drink about two liters...

June 24, 2011

Bad Teacher (Kasdan, 2011)

Bad Teacher has a lot of problems. Or, rather, it has one problem that could...

June 10, 2011

Super 8 (Abrams, 2011)

Many years ago, an exasperated student asked me "What is Pulp Fiction about?" After thinking...

May 2011

May 27, 2011

The Hangover Part II (Phillips, 2011)

The Hangover Part II is either a profound and mournful examination of human nature and...

May 22, 2011

Moulin Rouge — 10 Years Later (Luhrmann, 2001)

Normally, when I hate a movie, I can, at the very least, see what drew...

May 13, 2011

Everything Must Go (Rush, 2010)

I'm not here complaining about the too pretty alcoholic, like Elizabeth Shue in Leaving Las...

May 06, 2011

Thor (Branagh, 2011)

True, I can't recall two consecutive minutes of the film where I was conscious of...

May 05, 2011

Miss Gulag (Yatskova, 2007)

Miss Gulag tries hard to balance the story of a beauty pageant in a Siberian...

May 01, 2011

Emergenetics and Made in Dagenham — 1More Podcast Episode 12

Tune in for a fascinating discussion about the differences between being assertive and being expressive,...

April 2011

April 23, 2011

Gun Fight (Kopple, 2011)

I have spent the better part of a week since screening Barbara Kopple's Gun Fight...

April 20, 2011

The Grove: A Fight to Remember (Wilson, 2011)

The Grove: A Fight to Remember begins with, pretty much ends with, and is interspersed...

April 16, 2011

An Encounter With Simone Weil (Haslett, 2011)

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

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