Drama Rated PG-13
“The fact that The Blind Side is a terrible movie must be approached gingerly…
Comedy Rated NR
“Could the entrance into the Iraq War really have been as petty and misguided as this?
Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
Sherlock Holmes isn’t very good, but it does give you hope that the franchise – and this achingly wants to be a long-running franchise – might some day amount to something. In other words, it’s not a debacle, which is what I expected from a period action flick by director Guy Ritchie with Robert Downey
Comedy Rated R
“There are a lot of illegal drugs in Get Him to the Greek, and the movie itself sort of works like one.
Drama Rated NR
I would call Tulpan the sweetest movie to ever come out of Kazakhstan, except that it’s the only movie I’ve seen from that former Soviet republic. Maybe they’re all as artful and endearing as this. Director Sergei Dvortsevoy trains his patient, observant camera on a family living on a remote Kazakh steppe, where sheep are
Documentary Rated PG-13
From the creepy thermal-camera footage of its opening credits to the covert missions under the cover of darkness, this activist documentary plays like a spy thriller more than anything else. Centered around Ric O’Barry, dolphin trainer to Flipper who has since become a champion for dolphin rights around the world, The Cove visits Taijii, Japan,
Drama Rated R
Jeff Bridges gives a stumbling, puking, greasy performance in Crazy Heart – it’s one of those “ugly” roles meant to reject Hollywood glamour in hopes of making it to Hollywood’s glammest night of all. Bridges plays Bad Blake, a grizzled country-music legend in the twilight of his career – if by twilight you mean playing
The writing and directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) turn their attention to Major League Baseball’s farm system in the Dominican Republic, where promising young player Miguel “Sugar” Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) endures the indentured servitude and eventually shows big-league promise. But what, exactly, is that promise? The second half of
“Ryan Bingham, Michael Clayton, Mr. Fox – these are guys who have what could be called the Clooney Conscience.
Feeling dispassionate about Titanic is a bit like being stranded alone on the North Atlantic. People either looooove the box-office and Oscar juggernaut (it’s actually considered in some circles to be the best film of all time) or find it a crime against the cinema (that’s actually a polite euphemism compared to the way other
