Movie Reviews

If Tina Fey wins a Nobel Prize in Physics, will that make people start watching 30 Rock? Possible answer: Maybe?

Once again, Big White Dude saves the Little Yellow Dude -- unable to protect himself or his family, of course -- and gets to be the hero.

In The Wrestler, director Darren Aronofsky and screenwriter Robert D. Siegel refuse to reduce anyone.

The whole entertainment industry is built around sucking up to celebrities. You think Ben Lyons is uniquely responsible for this? Have you watched any entertainment "news" in your life?

Seven Pounds is the very definition of a "noble failure." It is the very kind of film that "they just don't make anymore" and I am glad for its existence.

Milk 2008 128 minutes Rated R by Scott Mendelson Gus Van Sant's Milk is a fine character study and a solid look at a specific political movement an...

Dragon Hunters is France's official submission for 'Best Animated Film' at this year's Oscars. For what it's worth, it is easily one of the three best cartoons I have seen this year.

If you're expecting the dark, wicked humor and dazzlingly gruesome violence of Sin City, you'll be sorely disappointed.

As it is, this version of The Day the Earth Stood Still feels like a vehicle that's stuck in neutral with the engine revving but no forward -- or backward -- motion to speak of.

In today's kid-friendly and fantasy-drenched multiplexes Nothing But The Truth stands out as that rarest of things -- a quality drama for grownups.

What unfolds is episodic and at times a bit long, but a good deal of the sequences are quite original, some very funny, most important extremely intriguing, much of which holds our attention.

It's best movie you could expect for a remake of Dog Day Afternoon with Van Damme as himself: saggy, unwieldy, but funny, captivating, and a welcome return to celebrity for my favorite C-list star.

One failing of the otherwise interesting film is that it never gives any insight into the reason behind Milk's rapid career change from insurance to gay insurgency. It's not too much of a stretch to say that Milk was born again.

The movie is based on a certain, now almost eerie, fluidness of time, while at the same time being about a distinctly specific time -- merging lines between now and then or here and there.

To say that I kinda liked Twilight but didn't care for the romantic drama at its center may be the epitome of absurdity. It should be noted though that the other elements of the film are worthwhile.

Boyle and Tandan have made an enchanting story about the power of knowledge, knowledge gained from experiences and gained from life itself.

New indie documentary film War Child is a must-see. It tells the sad, courageous story of Emmanuel Jal, a young Sudanese man who was a child soldier during the Sudanese Civil War of the 80s, and became a successful Hip Hop artist.

I finally saw Sex And The City: The Movie (it looks stunning on Blu Ray). I would love to get on a high horse and proclaim that it's a terrific movie ...

I posted a version of this about a couple months ago on The Hot Blog, as people were discussing their favorite films of the 1990s. Here is the extend...

Batman: The Complete Animated Series 2008 originally aired September 1992 - September 1999 17 discs 109 episodes TV-Y7 1.33:1, English 2.0 For many...

Roger Ebert has posted twenty iron clad rules for being a film critic. Many of them are obvious (don't talk, text, or be obnoxious in a theater), but...

Brolin's performance is certainly worthy of an Oscar, and his mastery of Bush's body language and speech pattern is remarkable. It is worth seeing the film for that alone.

Brolin hits every note beautifully and only grows stronger as the film goes on. His only problem is that people simply want Bush to go. They are too exhausted to discuss his legacy now.

Thus, it's not about the California campaign or the Connecticut decision. Rather, it's a documentary about the first state that legalized gay marriage - Massachusetts, five years ago.

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.