Review: “Micmacs”
Throughout his entire career, filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet has been compared to Terry Gilliam, as both men share a love for the absurd and the...
Review: “Sex and the City 2”
The 'Sex' sequel is the high fashion, glass-clinking instruction booklet for life as a successful woman, catering to the needs of the staunchly female...
Review: “MacGruber”
"Saturday Night Live" has produced several peculiar motion pictures based on popular skits over the last three decades, but nothing has been more unlikely...
Review: “Holy Rollers”
"Holy Rollers" embarks on a tale of drug trafficking that's been sold time and again. There's the innocent soul wandering into chemical trouble, corrupting...
Review: “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”
Unlike many features inspired by the world of video games, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" emerges from an extensive history of electronic...
Review: “Letters to Juliet”
Romantic motion pictures tend to cheat, fudging screenplays to evoke intimacy faster, helping along cinematic pace and the ways of love for audiences typically...
Review: “Just Wright”
Showing more pearly whites here than in any of her previous efforts, Queen Latifah appears determined to make her latest film, the romantic comedy...
Review: “Robin Hood”
The legend of Robin Hood has been fodder for countless adventure films, all bound together by a certain tights-n-woodsy appearance. It's a story drained...
Review: “Iron Man 2”
The energetic drive and carefree spirit that made the original "Iron Man" such a welcome change of pace is slightly muted in this problematic...
Review: “The Human Centipede: First Sequence”
"The Human Centipede" isn't a horror film, it's an oozing block of pure shock value, begging on bleeding knees for audiences to find the...
Review: “A Nightmare on Elm Street”
Last year, Michael Bay's remake factory Platinum Dunes churned out a "Friday the 13th" reboot. While far from an inspiring slasher success, the update...
Review: “Furry Vengeance”
Like a tormented crack addict drawn back to the sweet soul kiss of a burnt pipe time and again despite full knowledge of the...
Review: “The Losers”
A hyper adaptation of the comic book series that ran from 2003 to 2006, "The Losers" makes a nice, loud impression on the big...
Review: “Paper Man”
"Paper Man" has the appearance of a deeply felt, earnest film concerning unfinished emotional business. It literalizes the burden of guilt in strange seriocomic...
Review: “Death at a Funeral”
"Death at a Funeral" is a remake that updates the long-forgotten, lost-to-history, somebody-dust-this-one-off-please 2007 film of the same name. A whopping three years have...
Review: “The Joneses”
"The Joneses" contains an impressively timely premise that drills right into the heart of today's financial crisis. It's almost too sharp of a script,...
Review: “Kick Ass”
If "Wanted" was a snuff film for rednecks who use gun oil for lubricant, then "Kick Ass" is stroke material for a generation of...
Review: “Date Night”
Tina Fey and Steve Carell are two extremely formidable comedians, and thank heavens someone, somewhere had the good sense to pair them up for...
Review: “Warlords”
At least in America, the work of director Yimou Zhang has redefined the widescreen scope of the Eastern historical epic, through films such as...
Review: “Chloe”
"Chloe" opens with a clinical description of the female orgasm, and then spends the following 100 minutes displaying increasingly more frenzied examples of it....
Review: “Vincere”
In approaching the sordid history of Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini, director Marco Bellocchio has selected an enthralling operatic method to tell his tale....
Review: “The Last Song”
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. That's not just a motto to author Nicholas Sparks, but the very key to his vast literary...
Review: “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too?”
For his ninth feature film, writer/director Tyler Perry has returned to the source of his most inspired work. "Why Did I Get Married Too?"...
Review: “Clash of the Titans”
Considerably departing from both the original myth and its 1981 cult classic progenitor, Louis Leterrier's remake of "Clash of the Titans" proves a disheartening...
Review: “Greenberg”
In Noah Baumbach's world, there's not a soul around who isn't a ball of razor wire just begging to be kicked. "Greenberg" arrives after...
Review: “How to Train Your Dragon”
This is a wonderful motion picture. Perhaps Dreamworks, in their frantic need to push the movie to every demographic, has lost sight of the...
Review: “Hot Tub Time Machine”
There's a 15-minute period at the commencement of "Hot Tub Time Machine" where matters feel rather dire: faced with a loopy plot, a competitive...
Review: “The Eclipse”
To its credit, "The Eclipse" is a difficult film to summarize. A bizarre concoction of literary world misery and ghostly visitation, the picture takes...
Review: “The Bounty Hunter”
Within the first five minutes of "The Bounty Hunter," two different male characters find themselves on the receiving end of a swift jab to...
Review: “Our Family Wedding”
To describe "Our Family Wedding" as an offshoot of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is undoubtedly an insult to the 1967 Stanley Kramer film....