Nathan Rabin's "The Big Rewind" Needed a Little Re-Edit
Emotional honesty is a lot harder to take seriouslywhen you constantly undercut it by using the same hoary one-liners and jokes from Mr. Show.
Emotional honesty is a lot harder to take seriouslywhen you constantly undercut it by using the same hoary one-liners and jokes from Mr. Show.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.28.2009 | Entertainment
Saw VI still has many of the problems that have plagued the series from the get-go. But, despite this, it's a breath of fresh air for those who have followed the series since the beginning.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.23.2009 | Books
I'm all for freedom expression even when it comes to veiled pornography, but I don't want to be tricked into buying it for God's sake.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
The Children isn't the most violent film, nor the goriest or showiest. It haunts because it boils itself down to an unanswerable question: would you kill your own sick children to prevent them from killing you?
Maria Rodale | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
I had to check out Founding Farmers in Washington this past weekend. The idea is appealing: a casual, family restaurant that's supplied and owned by a collective of American family farmers.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Entertainment
The idea of high-quality entertainment that is specifically directed at children seems to be an oxymoron in the critical community. However, Where the Wild Things Are, is very much a high-quality children's movie.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Entertainment
Horror films work best when you realize that you cannot trust the filmmakers. But writer/director Oren Peli crafts a low-tech chiller that almost plays too fair with the audience.
The Huffington Post | Patricia Holt | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books
I know readers are supposed to mourn the loss of book review sections in newspapers and magazines across the country, but at this point -- well, in fa...
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Entertainment
If Public Enemies was merely a three-part episode of Superman: The Animated Series, it would be a good one. But it falls short as a stand-alone movie.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.29.2009 | Entertainment
Whip It is one of the most enjoyable film experiences of 2009. It's a formula picture through and through, but it is a truly entertaining one.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment
I'm not a particularly die-hard fan of the Scooby Doo franchise, but I have a passing interest. I was shocked at how enjoyable this movie is. It just plain works on every level.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment
For the first time that I can remember, a Michael Moore documentary/propaganda piece is less about the subject at hand and more about Michael Moore himself.
Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 11.14.2009 | Books
The Times did it again, they published a review of a book that was embargoed before publication date. Or did the publisher encourage it by imposing an...
Will Menaker | Posted 09.21.2009 | Entertainment
Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience may have been the smartest movie I've seen this year, but Neill Blomkamp's District 9 is definitely the most fun.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
I love the fact that someone in the studio chain thought that Taylor Lautner had to literally explain the character arcs in the trailer for the the second Twilight picture, New Moon.
Will Menaker | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
This film approaches the kind of unaffected, unmediated portrayal of war and the men who live within its strange, parallel reality.
Marshall Fine | Posted 09.13.2009 | Entertainment
The TIme Traveler's Wife is the movie equivalent of an Oprah book -- full of feeling with just enough ideas to make you think about it (but not too hard).
Ed Levine | Posted 08.22.2009 | New York
Who makes made-from-scratch pancakes at a food cart?
Scott Mendelson | Posted 08.21.2009 | Entertainment
The newest DC Animated Universe feature, Green Lantern: First Flight, is a well-acted and crisply directed science fiction action adventure.
Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 08.15.2009 | Comedy
"Michael & Michael Have Issues" is a show within a show within a show. The two leads, Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter, play themselves introdu...
Washington Post | Mike Musgrove | Posted 08.11.2009 | Media
If you value your spare time, don't start posting comments and reviews on Amazon, Mark Espinosa suggests. It can be a hard habit to break. ...
Will Menaker | Posted 08.03.2009 | Entertainment
The problem with Public Enemies is that it wants so badly to be a grand statement on crime, celebrities, and the country that worships them, but it lacks any coherent idea of what it really wants to say.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 07.24.2009 | Entertainment
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen represents a shocking amount of effort and skill going into a product of little entertainment value and even less significance.
Will Menaker | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment
What is the state of the American bro? Hollywood's been preoccupied with this question as of late and The Hangover is the latest response from director of bro-hood cult classics, Todd Phillips.
Scott Mendelson | Posted 07.09.2009 | Entertainment
You have an R-rated comedy starring a cast of unknowns and moderately recognizable faces that just opened bigger than all but one Adam Sandler comedy and all but one Will Ferrell vehicle.
Alex Remington | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books