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Movie Review: Kevin Lally- Film Journal
The opening moments of the documentary Catfish are inauspicious, to say the least. Commercials and documentary directors Ariel (“Rel”) Schulman and Henry Joost train their cameras on Rel’s brother Yaniv (know...
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Movie Review: James Greenberg- Hollywood Reporter
PARK CITY/Sundance Film Festival -- It's no secret that thousands of soldiers are coming back from Iraq and their lives are shattered, but no one wants to think too much about it. Writer-director Ryan Pie...
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Movie Review: Kirk Honeycutt- Hollywood Reporter
It took three films, but "The Twilight Saga" finally nails just the right tone in "Eclipse," a film that neatly balances the teenage operatic passions from Stephenie Meyer's novels with the movies' super...
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Movie Review: Lisa Schwarzbaum- Entertainment Weekly
Like an exciting experimental genetic strain bred of time-tested DNA, the cool, unwieldy sci-fi horror-thriller Splice (in theaters June 4) can trace its cinematic ancestry back to Frankenstein. Yet a...
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Movie Review: Christy Lemire-Associated Press
Lots of things get blown up and torn apart in "Iron Man 2," as you would expect from any self-respecting blockbuster kicking off the summer movie season. The magnitude of destruction far exceeds that of its p...
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Movie Review: Duane Byrge- Hollywood Reporter
CANNES -- A happening guy from West L.A. beds a lot of beauties, but he wakes up one morning with blood in his bed and all over his torso. How did it get there and whose is it? That's the deadly question in "...
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Movie Review: John DeFore- Hollywood Reporter
Moving the fanboy wish fulfillment scenario of "Spider-Man" a couple of steps further toward the real world (though certainly not all the way there), "Kick-Ass" delivers an awkward Everykid who succeeds (even...
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Movie Review: Adam Keleman-Slant Magazine
Clearly a quiet and lonely man, Don McKay (Thomas Haden Church) sluggishly scrubs the paint off a high school art class's floor, with a loser shrug affixed to his face. He's employed in janitorial services, and t...
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Movie Review: Marshall Fine-Hollywood and Fine
Conor McPherson’s “The Eclipse” is a gem: a smart, deliberately paced tale of mourning and renewal, a ghost story with a few moments of terror and well-observed emotional truths.
Based on a short st...
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Movie Review: Michael Rechtshaffen-Hollywood Reporter
The future looks awfully predictable (underscore "awfully") in "Repo Men," a blood-soaked, derivative and increasingly ridiculous sci-fi thriller in which Jude Law and Forest Whitaker play a pair of...
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Movie Review: Kirk Honeycutt-Hollywood Reporter
In "Green Zone," director Paul Greengrass brings the frenetic, run-and-gun style with which he utterly transformed the movie thriller in the Jason Bourne series to a different kind of thriller, one with a s...
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Michael Rechtshaffen: Film Critic-The Hollywood Reporter
Bottom Line: Truly, madly wonderful.
Not that there was any doubt that, when it came to restaging the 1865 Lewis Carroll classic for a 21st century sensibility, Tim Burton would be the man for th...
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Critic Review: Rebecca Murray-About.Com
What would you do if everyone in your hometown all of a sudden started acting not only crazy but homicidal? If your friends and family members turned into glassy-eyed, unthinking monsters, could you do whatever you...
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Critic Review: Betsy Sharkey-LA Times
In "Shutter Island," director Martin Scorsese has created a divinely dark and devious brain tease of a movie in the best tradition with its smarter than you'd think cops, their tougher than you'd imagine cases to c...
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Critic Review: Miguel Guadalupe-The Father Life
Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman breaks the remake mold and has brought back the popcorn thriller in an unexpectedly refreshing way.
The story is based on the 1941 classic. Del Toro (Che) plays Lawrence Talb...
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Marshall Fine-Film Critic/Hollywood and Fine
One of the films that played at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Midnight series, Adam Green's Frozen is the horror equivalent of a one-joke movie - except a lot better.
Take three college students, put ...
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Peter Rainer-Film Criic/Christian Science Monitor
What is it about movies and the apocalypse these days? It can’t all be blamed on post-9/11 syndrome. I was just recovering from “The Road” when along comes “The Book of Eli,” starring Denzel W...
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Believe the hype. James Cameron's decade-in-the-making sci-fi dream project is an immersive epic unlike any other. Yes, the story's pretty simple, but with so much else to take in, anything more complicated might have been tough to follow.
The Bigger P...
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Friday the 13th, director M. Night Shyamalan's "The Happening" terrified movie audiences with the tale of a mysterious toxin that causes loss of speech, physical disorientation and death. Toxicologists are bound to tease apart the movie's scientific fact ...
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Underneath the grit, grime, grey skies, and melancholy of THE ROAD, there is a heart to it, an overpowering optimism that stems from the energy a father gives in the love for his son. It is a hard world the father and son in this film live in, and, many ...
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