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June 2012

June 08, 2012

Prometheus (Scott, 2012)

Prometheus's biggest problem is not a lack of ambition, but of execution. The film is...

May 2012

May 29, 2012

U.N. Me (Horowitz and Goff, 2009)

U.N. Me describes scandal after scandal with a relentless dullness and surprisingly glib attitude.

May 25, 2012

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (Madden, 2011)

I've often said I would pay to watch Tom Wilkinson or Judi Dench read the...

April 2012

April 22, 2012

Blue Like Jazz and other Podcasts

I have been busy podcasting over at Film Geek Radio. New episodes include discussions with...

April 13, 2012

Big Boys Gone Bananas!* (Gertten, 2012)

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, aside from having the distinction of the hardest title in awhile...

April 13, 2012

Love Free or Die (Alston, 2012)

Nobody has ever hated me the way Christians have hated me.

April 11, 2012

Italy Love It or Leave It (Hofer and Ragazzi, 2011)

Italy Love It or Leave It is a modest film, almost modest enough to work.

April 10, 2012

The Waiting Room (Nicks, 2012)

Peter Nicks's The Waiting Room is the sort of documentary that advocates on either side...

April 07, 2012

Mr. Cao Goes to Washington (Chiang, 2012)

"The Tea Party does not represent this district, I do."

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Mirror Mirror (Singh, 2012)

But Mirror Mirror has Julia Roberts in it, so it must be a Julia Roberts...

February 2012

February 03, 2012

Big Miracle (Kwapis, 2012)

Big Miracle is the kind of film you dread getting assigned to write about as...

January 2012

January 20, 2012

Red Tails (Hemingway, 2012)

Red Tails is an earnest, straight forward, somewhat generic, but easily likable war-action movie that...

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 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...

September 2011

September 30, 2011

50/50 (Levine, 2011)

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

August 2011

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 15, 2011

Winnie the Pooh (Anderson and Hall, 2011)

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

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 06, 2011

Thor (Branagh, 2011)

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

April 2011

April 08, 2011

Soul Surfer (McNamara, 2011)

UPDATE: A podcast on Soul Surfer at The Thin Place.

March 2011

March 11, 2011

Battle Los Angeles (Liebesman, 2011)

The title credits of Battle Los Angeles, which I always thought were the ultimate authority...

March 04, 2011

The Adjustment Bureau (Nolfi, 2011)

The biggest flaw of The Adjustment Bureau may be that its negatives are so easily...

January 2011

January 21, 2011

No Strings Attached (Reitman, 2011)

I don't feel too grinch-like in saying I didn't believe the film since the film...

January 06, 2011

Country Strong (Feste, 2010)

The religion stuff is a red herring, though, I know. It wouldn't bother me if...

December 2010

December 22, 2010

True Grit (Coen & Coen, 2010)

Walking to my car after the screening, the first thing I said to my friend...

December 14, 2010

The Tourist (von Donnersmarck, 2010)

The shots of Venice were dazzlingly beautiful in The Tourist. I would really love to...