Movie Reviews

No Country for Bat-Men: The Superb, Disturbing Noir Knight

Alex Remington | Posted 07.19.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

For us, all that remains is to watch the movie and feel the chills, and be so engrossed by the Joker as to forget what befell the actor behind him.

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Hellboy 2 Stands Out in a Weak Summer for Movies

Alex Remington | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

Other than WALL-E, there haven't been many instant classics this summer, but Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is a movie I'll be happy to watch over and over again.

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Batman and Robin (1949): Marching to a Bureaucratic Beat

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment

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Erik Lundegaard

Batman is now less vigilante than establishment figure. He doesn't drop off crooks at the local precinct with bat stickers on their foreheads; now he hangs with Commissioner Gordon in his office and plots strategy.

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"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" Movie Review Roundup: Fun As Hell

Huffington Post | Posted 07.10.2008 | Entertainment

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The long-awaited sequel to "Hellboy" hits theaters tomorrow (July 11), and it looks like it's going to be fun as hell. "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" c...

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Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Robin, Douglas Croft, Movie Serials, Japanese Internment, Lewis Wilson, World War II, Batman, Movies, Japan, Entertainment News
Erik Lundegaard

Given Pearl Harbor, and Hollywood's track record with stereotypes before Pearl Harbor, the racism towards Japanese people in 1943's Batman serial is unsurprising.

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Are Critically Acclaimed Movies More Popular? They Were Last Year

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.07.2008 | Entertainment

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Erik Lundegaard

Both critics and moviegoers seem to like quality and not crap. Is this revelatory? In a society that dismisses quality, and that holds up crap for imitation, it certainly feels revelatory.

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WALL-E: Pixar's Animated Robots Are Better Actors Than Most Live Humans

Alex Remington | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

After billions of dollars of box office revenues and over a decade of unbroken blockbusters, Pixar might just be making the world a better place.

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Why Entertainment Weekly Rules the World

Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media

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Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts

Too many readers are concerned about prestige rather than learning something. EW takes us to new places because the magazine covers only what is new.

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Was it Worth Bringing Indy back? Well, Kind of.

Alex Remington | Posted 05.27.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

It looks and feels like an Indiana Jones movie, although the plot's more rickety than usual, the by-committee script's only serviceable, and the pleasures are modest relative to the expectations attached.

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McCain/Clinton, Torture, & Errol Morris -- A Review

Stephen Elliott | Posted 05.03.2008 | Media

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Stephen Elliott

Joan Didion famously said, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live." Most of us have internalized the American narrative of Abu Ghraib and learned to accept its implications.

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Harold & Kumar 2: Best War on Terror Movie Ever (Though That's Not Saying Much)

Alex Remington | Posted 04.26.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

What is courage? Courage is making a movie called Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay in which George W. Bush is a sympathetic character.

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The Forbidden Kingdom: Bad Script, Bad Acting, Bad Score, Otherwise Okay Movie

Alex Remington | Posted 04.19.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

Shortcomings aside, what's most important is the Jet Li/Jackie Chan fight that has been promised by every movie poster for the past months and fantasized about in every video store for the past 20 years.

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A Card-Sharp Thriller, Huh? You Get Paid for This?

Jeff Dorchen | Posted 04.17.2008 | Entertainment

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Jeff Dorchen

In the TV ad for the movie 21, the announcer says, as if it's a terrific, exciting piece of news, "Entertainment Weekly calls it 'a card-sharp thrille...

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Rest in Peace, Charlton Heston

Alex Remington | Posted 04.06.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

It speaks well of us as a culture that a man's art should outlive his politics. Charlton Heston was one of our greatest stars, and his best movies will last forever.

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Who Should Win the Oscars -- The Major Categories

Alex Remington | Posted 02.11.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

This is it, guys. Here are my selections for who should win the Oscars for the big 6 catetgories: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Bes...

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Who Should Win the Oscars -- The Teaser Categories

Alex Remington | Posted 01.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE OF THE YEAR: Ratatouille: This was pretty close to my favorite movie of the year. It's hard to talk about unhyperbolically -- it's simply magical.

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On Cloverfield and 9/11

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 01.21.2008 | Entertainment

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Jessica Wakeman

The first 45 minutes of Cloverfield is the closest I think I can get to showing sometime else what being in NYC on 9/11 was like for me on an emotional level.

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2007, An Incredible Movie Year: Here's What the Globes and Oscars Missed

Alex Remington | Posted 01.21.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

Best Self-Conscious Schlock: Grindhouse -- One of the more hyped movies of the year became one of its bigger flops, but it was also about as much fun as you can have at the movies for 10 bucks.

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The Remingolden Globes

Alex Remington | Posted 01.14.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

I'm going to leap into the breach and anoint my own damn winners. Just try and stop me, America.

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There Will Be Blood: And Plenty of Overacting

Alex Remington | Posted 01.05.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

In two and a half hours, there is no character development: the end is telegraphed in the title, which like the film itself is ploddingly unnuanced.

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Persepolis: Iranian Feminist as Subversive

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 12.30.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Iran, Persepolis Film, Persepolis Reviews, Reviews, Feminism, Graphic Novels, Entertainment News
Melissa Silverstein

The film tells the story of an independent girl growing up in a secular Iran in the late 1970s, and what happened to her world in the wake of the Islamic revolution.

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Sweeney Todd: Tim Burton, Hollywood's New Musical Man

Alex Remington | Posted 12.28.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Gothic Expressionism, Helena Bonham Carter, Vicente Minnelli, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, Stephen Sondheim, Corpse Bride, Movie Reviews, Reviews, Sweeney Todd Reviews, Entertainment News
Alex Remington

Sweeney Todd is Burton's best movie in nearly a decade, and, along with Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas it's one of the best movie musicals of recent years.

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Why Charlie Wilson's War Couldn't Happen Today

John Fund | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics

Read More: Tom Hanks, Movie Reviews, Mike Nichols, Charlie Wilson, Aaron Sorkin, Charlie Wilson's War, Charlie Wilson's War Reviews, Mujahideen, Politics News
John Fund

Let's hope Washington notes one of the film's lessons: Good things sometimes happened in foreign policy when there was bipartisanship, which now appears to be a bygone concept.

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Why It's a Wonderful Life Still Resonates

John Farr | Posted 12.24.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, Christmas Movies, Holiday Season, Frank Capra, It's a Wonderful Life, James Stewart, Christmas, Best Movies by Farr, Donna Reed, Movies, Entertainment News
John Farr

With passably funny Comedy Central take-offs undermining its stature as an important, enduring motion picture, is the new generation missing out?

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America's Fascination with Terror in Film

David Berreby | Posted 12.21.2007 | Entertainment

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David Berreby

For six years, Americans' fears have been hyped and manipulated by politicians. Meanwhile, our entertainments teach us to enjoy fear, to play with it -- to be connoisseurs of our own terror.

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