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July 2011

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...

April 2011

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."

April 15, 2011

Hot Coffee (Saladoff, 2011)

Susan Saladoff's Hot Coffee is the documentary that Inside Job tried so hard to be,...

April 15, 2011

Windfall (Israel, 2010)

Less of an indictment of wind energy companies (though it is that to some degree),...

April 09, 2011

Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ (Murphy, 2011)

The key to Hey Boo's success lies in director Mary Murphy's ability to balance critique...

April 08, 2011

Soul Surfer (McNamara, 2011)

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

March 2011

March 25, 2011

Miral (Schnabel, 2010)

Julian Schnabel's latest film brings to the screen the autobiographical novel of Palestinian journalist Rula...

March 15, 2011

The Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001) — Ten Years Later

I can't quite shake the feeling that the world view that permeates this film genre...

March 11, 2011

Battle Los Angeles (Liebesman, 2011)

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

March 09, 2011

The Desert of Forbidden Art (Pope and Georgiev, 2011)

The directors of The Desert of Forbidden Art, Amanda Pope and Tchavdar Georgiev, state that...

March 04, 2011

The Adjustment Bureau (Nolfi, 2011)

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

February 2011

February 27, 2011

A Beautiful Mind (Howard, 2001)

Do I think this was the best film of 2001? No. Neither though can I...

February 13, 2011

Candyman: The David Klein Story (Botes, 2010)

Klein came up for the idea of Jelly Belly, the gourmet jelly bean that comes...

February 05, 2011

Swordfish (Sena, 2001)

I did not ultimately select Dominca Sena's film as my least favorite viewing experience of...

January 2011

January 29, 2011

Monsters, Inc. (Docter, Silverman, Unkrich, 2001)

You know the biggest shock about revisiting Monsters, Inc. ten years later? It was the...

January 10, 2011

Black Swan (Aronofsky, 2010)

Were he still alive today, I can't help thinking that Black Swan would've been the...

January 07, 2011

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)

I tried hard to view the film afresh, to convince myself that my negative (and,...

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...

December 10, 2010

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Apted, 2010)

Which do you trust more: a gushing rave from a person who went into a...