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March 2014

March 21, 2014

Ukraine is Not a Brothel (Green, 2013)

When I first heard of Femen, a group of "feminists" who protest...something (everything?) by baring...

March 03, 2014

The Incredibles (Bird, 2004) — 10 Years Later

Of all the films I reviewed in 2004, The Incredibles is surely the one I’ve...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Cement Suitcase (Castañeda, 2013)

A bit too much happens in Cement Suitcase for me to toss it on the...

February 19, 2014

Sing Over Me (Kindberg, 2014)

Fewer subjects at the intersection of faith and culture are more inflammatory than that of...

February 14, 2014

Endless Love (Feste, 2014)

Endless Love is a bad movie, and, yeah, I pretty much liked it.

February 13, 2014

The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State (Goodin II and Santana, 2010)

The 904: Shadow of the Sunshine State is a documentary about Jacksonville, which has the...

February 02, 2014

Mars at Sunrise (Habie, 2014)

Films about Israeli-Palestinian conflicts, while not exactly a dime a dozen in the United States,...

February 02, 2014

Wings (Wellman, 1927)

William Wellman never won an Academy Award for directing.

January 2014

January 27, 2014

Six Million and One (Fisher, 2011)

The documentary follows the group of four--Estee, David, Gideon, and Ronel-- as they travel from...

January 26, 2014

Spider-Man 2 (Raimi, 2004) — 10 Years Later

Pop quiz. Without using Google or some other search engine, identify the movie Roger Ebert...

January 21, 2014

God’s Not Dead (Cronk, 2014)

My problems with God's Not Dead are almost all ones of execution, not concept.

January 19, 2014

Pandora’s Promise (Stone, 2013)

Freedom of the press means that, paradoxically, Americans are woefully misinformed about any number of...

January 17, 2014

The Truth About Emanuel (Gregorini, 2013)

The Truth About Emanuel is one of those films that reveals its twist about a...

January 15, 2014

August: Osage County (Wells, 2013)

One is reluctant in a public review to say just how deeply one loathed August:...

January 01, 2014

Lovelace (Bellin, 2013)

Given its subject matter, Lovelace could be forgiven for being shocking or harrowing itself...if it...

December 2013

December 16, 2013

Enough Said (Holofcener, 2013)

I happened to see Enough Said the day after screening Inside Llewyn Davis. Both films...

December 10, 2013

Love Actually (Curtis, 2003) — 10 Years Later

Alas, no. No to all of it. No to it being a holiday film, a...

December 05, 2013

Approaching Midnight (Khaleghi, 2013)

This movie isn't that bad. The acting is, but the plot isn't.

November 2013

November 30, 2013

The Bible

"This program is an adaptation of Bible Stories that changed our world" suggests a rebuttal...

November 27, 2013

Frozen (Buck and Lee, 2013)

Evaluating Disney films in a DVD era has become a complicated calculus.

November 25, 2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lawrence, 2013)

I prefer the movie to the book.

November 23, 2013

The Armstrong Lie (Gibney, 2013)

A person--doesn’t have to be a friend of yours necessarily, just someone you know or...

November 19, 2013

Child of God (Franco, 2013)

An outsider, of “carnival folk” in a rustic, small town in the backwoods of Tennessee,...

November 17, 2013

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Weir, 2003) — 10 Years Later

That "B" grade looks stingy in retrospect, especially given some of the films I had...

November 03, 2013

All She Can (Wendel, 2011)

College—it’s Luz Garcia’s dream—it’s her only way of escaping the big trouble of her small...

November 01, 2013

Ender’s Game (Hood, 2013)

I've spent the three days between viewing and reviewing Ender's Game listlessly trying to convince...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

Standing Up (Caruso, 2013)

Standing Up begins and ends with a reference to God. In between, Howie and Grace...

October 24, 2013

Shepard & Dark (Wurmfeld, 2012)

It's hard to know which element of Shepard & Dark is the most refreshingly quaint:...

October 17, 2013

Escape Plan (Håfström, 2013)

Every good escape plan needs three things: 1) Guards that shoot like stormtroopers. 2) A...

October 13, 2013

Cinematic States (Higgins, 2013)

There are film critics and then there are movie guys. You know the former. They...