Marshall Fine Movie Review

While there is violence galore in A Film with Me in It, the lion's share is accidental.

Unless you're a dog undergoing house-breaking, you don't need to have your nose rubbed in s**t to be reminded that it exists. But that seems to be Michael Haneke's raison d'etre.

If Guy Ritchie and producer Joel Silver (whose ham-handed fingerprints are all over this film) wanted to make a James Bond film set in Victorian times, why call him Sherlock Holmes? Why not Terlock Scones? Merlock Bones? Parkway Homes?

It's exactly the kind of middlebrow entertainment that attracts people who no longer go to movies -- because it seems like the kind of movie they no longer make.

Nine is a tour of Guido Contini's imagination and memory, writ large as a musical. Not a musical comedy; there aren't many laughs.

The film is about a chapter of sports and international political history that few outside of South Africa would be aware of. In most ways, it's a standard underdog tale, but this one comes with a difference.

Brothers is the classic example of a movie that tries to be too many things and ends up not being much of anything except overwrought.

De Niro is at the center of the film in one of the quietest performances of his career, yet one of the most moving -- the kind that ought to draw Oscar attention.

I've been touting Up in the Air as the year's best film since I saw it in Toronto in September -- and I still haven't seen anything that has changed my mind.

I worry about the fate of The Road, John Hillcoat's film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic Pulitzer-winning novel. It's a moving and u...

Perhaps Fantastic Mr. Fox will be the film that convinces adults that animation isn't just for kids.

Uncertainty ultimately doesn't go where you expect it to. It's a fascinating experiment that also happens to be an interesting and highly watchable movie.

Some bad movies you slag off gleefully. Others provoke a certain disappointment at their failure, a mourning at the difference between the film's ambition and its execution. Richard Kelly's The Box is such a film.

This is, by my count, the third version of Dickens' story that Walt Disney Studios has put out. The story, however, was always Dickens', as it is now.

Michael Jackson's This Is It elicited strongly conflicting emotions as I watched a screening this week. It reveals so much about Michael Jackson as a human being.

To get a sense of just how deep the lingering effects of institutionalized racism in South Africa must run, take yourself to Skin, a powerful and compelling drama based on a true story.

A flat, self-consciously mannered film, Gentleman Broncos winds up as a waste of time for everyone involved -- including you, if you make the mistake of seeing it.

No, Ong-Bak 2 isn't a great movie and, no, Tony Jaa isn't a great actor. But so what? If you love the pure kinetics of a well-shot martial-arts film, Tony Jaa is the most exciting figure to come along in years.

Lars von Trier is a fraud, who keeps making movies because he has somehow convinced enough people that his delusions or pretensions (the latter, more likely) are art and that his movies are worthwhile.

Intelligent and provocative, (Untitled) is consistently surprising and funny without pandering for laughs. Is art the idea or the thing? Well, who cares when it's as entertaining as this film?

What to make of omnibus/anthology films such as New York, I Love You? Do you judge them by the best of the short films contained within? Or by the wo...

I don't want to know how Spike Jonze made Where the Wild Things Are. I'd rather simply simmer in the joy of having watched it unfold before my eyes.

Peter and Vandy is touching and insightful, a film that understands what that first whoosh of emotion in a relationship feels like -- and how quickly love can change and vanish.

When is a sports movie not a sports movie? When it's Tom Hooper's terrific The Damned United, yet another feather in actor Michael Sheen's cap.

Trucker is a revelation in terms of the performance Michelle Monaghan gives. Give it a chance and you won't be sorry.