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Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace Body of Lies follows the fight against terror into cyberspace
Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy thriller we deserve
A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: October 09, 2008
Happy-Go-Lucky gives you something to smile about Happy-Go-Lucky gives you something to smile about
The protag of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky is a modestly gaudy people's heroine industriously repairing the social world, one frayed interaction... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: October 09, 2008
Blindness blurs the line between bleak and sappy Blindness blurs the line between bleak and sappy
The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles' mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's international best seller... More>>
By Anthony Kaufman
Published: October 02, 2008
How to Lose Friends and Nick and Norah: Double Your Disappointment How to Lose Friends and Nick and Norah: Double Your Disappointment
Two mediocre adaptations by two directors who really should have known better
There are copious ways to link How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Both are based on feather-light... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 02, 2008
Choke Choke
Palahniuk adaptation needs the Heimlich
There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 25, 2008
Miracle at Santa Anna Miracle at Santa Anna
No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's World War II drama is an epic bore
On some level, you've got to hand it to Spike Lee. There is probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: September 25, 2008
Your Friends & Neighbors Your Friends & Neighbors
Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: September 18, 2008
Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People Ricky Gervais Sees Dead People
And they bring him to life in Ghost Town
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the audience to warm to Ricky Gervais. During the... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 18, 2008
Intolerable Cruelty Intolerable Cruelty
Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading
Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: September 11, 2008
Oh, Canada Oh, Canada
Midway through the Toronto film fest, and things are looking bleak
If this year's Toronto International Film Festival had a subtitle, it could be "When Good Directors Go Bad." At least that's what it has felt... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: September 11, 2008
Wipeout
It took four credited screenwriters to pen a script in which every other word is "dude" or "bra"; but then, how one "writes" or "directs" a film... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: September 11, 2008
In the Heat of the Knight In the Heat of the Knight
Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south
And so another summer movie season comes to an end, not with a bang but a whimper—what else to call four new releases (Babylon A.D.,... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: September 04, 2008
Not to Be Not to Be
Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic
In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to knock... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 28, 2008
Spy vs. Why Spy vs. Why
Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor
Despite his reputation as that rarest of creatures—a Hollywood intellectual—new evidence suggests that Steve Martin reads...prepare... More>>
By Chuck Wilson
Published: August 28, 2008
Schoolhouse Rock Schoolhouse Rock
Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hard-core funny
The Rocker bears the decidedly unmistakable odor of something made in 1983 and left on the shelf a good 25 years. Which isn't to suggest that... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 21, 2008
Hard-Knock Life Hard-Knock Life
Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom
When I heard that Quentin Tarantino handed the Grand Jury Prize for best feature to Courtney Hunt's Frozen River at this year's Sundance Film... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: August 21, 2008
Mighty Aphrodites Mighty Aphrodites
Penélope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson join forces—and some other stuff—in Woody Allen's (winning!) latest
Perhaps this review should begin with a disclaimer: Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's 39th film as writer-director, will do little to... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: August 14, 2008
Apocalypse Whatever Apocalypse Whatever
Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower
Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 14, 2008
True Bromance True Bromance
Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 07, 2008
Towering Cinema Towering Cinema
Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies
Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center—that twin-pronged erection jutting from the... More>>
By Jim Ridley
Published: August 07, 2008
Not Quite Ripe
Send it back: Bottle Shock's corked
Bottle Shock, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: August 07, 2008
Small Change Small Change
Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote
Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it were. The... More>>
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: July 31, 2008
Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Fiction
High-school heroes and zeros roam the halls of Nanette Burstein's "documentary," American Teen
Notwithstanding all the pundit-driven hot air about the horrors of being young in today's America, I'm willing to buy the argument that it's... More>>
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: July 31, 2008
Costume Ball
Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento put their stamp (or tattoo) on 19th-century France
Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy... More>>
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: July 31, 2008
Corpse Fried
The Mummy franchise has seen better days
I was 13 when Stephen Sommers's 1999 remake-in-name-only of The Mummy came out—just about the ideal age. Sommers is definitely some kind of... More>>
By Vadim Rizov
Published: July 31, 2008
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