Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“Too often, Damon resembles a besotted, middle-school boy who’s chasing his crush not at recess, but in the Matrix.
“Considering there are so many new ways to tell an alien-invasion story (found footage, mockumentary, spoof), Battle: Los Angeles is almost defiantly old-fashioned.
“This isn’t the imagination of a young girl; it’s the fantasy of a 14-year-old boy steeped in kung fu, Call of Duty and online porn.”
Action/Adventure Rated PG
“It must have taken a lot of computers to pull this thing off; too bad the movie talks like one of them.
Action/Adventure Rated NR
Pure Danish craziness. Director Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson) offers a Viking picture that’s like a Terrence Malick film on steroids. It’s brutal and terrifying, yet every frame drips with beauty. (The clouds are so imposing in these ancient skies, they almost count as characters.) In 1,000 A.D., a mute warrior with one eye (Mads Mikkelsen)
“To watch Super 8 is to witness the birth of our current geek culture.
“I suppose it’s fitting that a movie about aliens extracting human brains would eventually lose its head.
The first video game movie? Though it’s not based on an actual game, Tron is a remarkable transference of the gaming experience onto the big screen – and certainly a better one than most of the iterations we’ve seen since. Jeff Bridges plays a hacker who breaks into a rogue computer system. At first he
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint look — and act — significantly older here than in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. They’re adults, with all the hang-ups, responsibilities and foibles that implies. Deathly Hallows — Part I puts them through a variety of paces — loyalty, jealousy and mistrust swirl among them —
One of Hollywood’s true curiosities. At times a charming, kiddie Western, this John Wayne vehicle also has a real nasty streak. It’s perhaps best personified by an early hanging scene, during which families gather to picnic and watch. When an adult tries to cover the eyes of a young girl, she says, “No. I’m here.
