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February 2012

February 12, 2012

Antwone Fisher (Washington, 2002) — 10 Years Later

Which brings me, roundabout, to Derek Luke. That it is Antwone's story means that Luke...

February 04, 2012

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Kwapis, 2005)

The acting is terrific. Amber Tamblyn is very, very good. America Ferrara is, quite simply,...

February 02, 2012

Albert Nobbs (Garcia, 2011)

In theory, Albert Nobbs is close to my idea of a perfect movie. In practice,...

January 2012

January 24, 2012

About Schmidt (Payne, 2002) — 10 Years Later

I am not sure what it says about Alexander Payne's tragicomedy that the first thing...

January 20, 2012

Red Tails (Hemingway, 2012)

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

January 07, 2012

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011)

Fincher’s direction is smooth and smart...

January 04, 2012

Wit (Nichols, 2001) — 10 Years Later

My relationship to cancer has changed much in the last ten years.

December 2011

December 25, 2011

In the Bedroom (Field, 2001) — 10 Years Later

After viewing In the Bedroom for the first time, I am left with one emotion that...

December 05, 2011

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey (Marks & Shane, 2011)

Being Elmo is good.

November 2011

November 29, 2011

I Confess (Hitchcock, 1953)

I Confess (1953) is an Alfred Hitchcock film that has flown under the radar since...

November 20, 2011

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part I (Condon, 2011)

While I do not count myself amongst the franchise's devotees—I have read the first book...

November 20, 2011

Alps (Lanthimos, 2011)

Over at The Thin Place, the podcast I host at Film Geek Radio, Todd Truffin...

November 07, 2011

Of God and Gucci (Rennar, 2011)

Part art therapy, part legal document (it contains footage of the mediation resulting from the...

November 05, 2011

The Other F Word (Nevins, 2011)

It is hard for me to say, precisely, when The Other F Word lost me...

November 04, 2011

Wrestling for Jesus (Clarke, 2011)

When asked to describe his film, director Nathan Clarke said in an interview, he likes...

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 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 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...