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So Long
Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010
It had to end sometime. Now’s as bad a time as any. After thirty-eight years of them — commencing with ...
Life in Him Yet
Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010
Granted, Clint Eastwood in his senior years has demonstrated a remarkable readiness to broaden his boundaries as a director. A ...
Different Strokes
Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010
Trepidation is not the ideal frame of mind in which to approach a film, even around Halloween. But after I ...
Tight Spot
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010
Sort of a Sorry, Wrong Number for the cellphone age, Buried is a gimmicky thriller whose single gimmick, if you ...
October Kickoff
Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010
Everything you never wanted to know about the advent of Facebook, where “friends” gather on the Internet, will be revealed ...
The Other Bostonians
Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010
Ben Affleck’s second directed film, The Town, is a moderately diverting, mildly despicable game of cops-and-robbers that counts, in its ...
The Boss’s Daughter
Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2010
For your Mafia fix, you can safely go to The Sicilian Girl, a fictionalized factual story from the fatherland, focussed ...
Relentless
Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010
Top of the heap this week, The Tillman Story rehashes the shameful facts of how Pat Tillman, Jr., the Arizona ...
Summer Closeout
Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010
They don’t call them the dog days for nothing. Blockbusters are all behind us. Here’s what’s before us. The Switch. ...
Mideast Meets West
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
One of the promises of the independent cinema, seldom fulfilled, is that it take up the jobs abdicated by today’s ...
After an Intermission
Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010
Todd Solondz has described his Life during Wartime as a “quasi-sequel” to Happiness. This is helpful inasmuch as it has ...
Just a Pinch
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Lowering the temperature on the Cold War, below freezing, Salt exposes a subterranean population of Russian “sleeper” agents with far ...
Misconception
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Acclamations of genius plus megamillions at the box-office equal a license for self-indulgence. Case at hand: critical favorite Christopher Nolan ...
Moon in July
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Pardon my priorities. Now that Alain Resnais has been addressed in timely fashion, I am able to double-back and attend ...
Old Dog, New Tricks
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
The first if not the most remarkable thing about Wild Grass is the simple fact that it will open locally, ...
No Summer Break
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Latest outflow from the sluggish mainstream and the rushing tributaries: Winter’s Bone. Debra Granik’s top-prize recipient at this year’s Sundance ...
June Gloom
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Pixar’s Toy Story 3, or if it makes any difference Lee Unkrich’s Toy Story 3, adds little but minutes to ...
The Liverish Liverpudlian
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Faced with The A-Team and The Karate Kid, or going back to pick up the slighted Get Him to the ...
Back to the Future
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
In my years at this post, there have been no fewer than three re-releases of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. (A measure, ...
Behind the Times
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Summer got started without me. Let’s see what I’ve missed. Iron Man 2, to take the first thing first, serves ...
Women's Work
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Back when Kathryn Bigelow was having, or about to have, her historic victory as Best Director on Oscar night, we ...
Solid Geometry
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Had I consented to watch my DVD screener of The Square, there would have been more than a couple of ...
A Winner
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Academy Award for foreign film is historically a hard one to handicap. That’s because the voters in that category ...
Scads
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
We seem to have entered a brief period of frenzy between the pre-Oscar stasis and the slow summer pace of ...
Forget the Titans
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Something to live for (now that March Madness has passed): the new Alain Resnais film, Wild Grass, new as of ...
No Let-Up
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Just to keep pace with the fast-breaking developments, a quick timeout from basketball: Chloe. A renaming and reworking by Atom ...
Around and About
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
In between films at the San Diego Latino Film Festival, I can spare but passing glances at the world outside. ...
Little Wonder
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Well, you wouldn’t expect Tim Burton to do a remake of Pollyanna, would you? Or Little Women or Anne of ...
Crime Time
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
In contention for the foreign-film Oscar, in contention to be exact for two more days after its debut on Friday ...
Head to Head
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010
Major filmmakers, minor films: Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, Shutter Island and The Ghost Writer respectively. “Disturbing” would be one word ...
Bad Lot
Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010
Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Eric Dane, Patrick Dempsey, Hector Elizondo, Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Garner, Topher Grace, ...
Back in the Spotlight
Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
It seems impossible to speak of Mel Gibson’s “comeback” in Edge of Darkness without speaking of what it is he ...
Gray Day
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010
Revivals aside, we are lucky to get one black-and-white film a year. So we must count ourselves lucky, already in ...
Good Buy
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010
First let me confess. I do not know what I’m talking about. Anything naive, ill-informed, mistaken in what follows will ...
To Begin With
Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2010
Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart is pretty much the whole show. His Bad Blake, given name to be held back ...
In Sum
Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009
One thing seems clear. The surprise announcement in June of the expansion of the Oscars’ Best Picture category to ten ...
Look What Santa Brought
Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009
The last of the last. A Single Man. The Christmas movie for holiday depressives (who after all deserve one, too), ...
New World Disorder
Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
The reviewer of Avatar seems honor-bound to declare which Avatar he is reviewing. Me? 2-D, no. 3-D, yes. IMAX, no. ...
Campaign Trail
Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
Here they come, “for your consideration,” clear through Christmas, elbowing each other to the finish line. So consider in haste. ...
Blessings Few
Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
On the Thanksgiving menu: Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, which I was horrified to see is the ...
The Days Dwindle Down
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
Through Independence Day and Godzilla, pre-9/11, and The Day after Tomorrow post-9/11, transplanted German filmmaker Roland Emmerich has inched closer ...
Other Dimensions
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009
Beg pardon, but it has taken me a week to untie my tongue on the subject of Antichrist, which closes ...
Matters of Fact
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
Are you having enough chances to see documentaries? I myself in the past couple of weeks missed my chances at ...
All Together Now
Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009
If I had to read it cover to cover before reviewing it, there’s no telling when I would have leave ...
Something Done
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009
The standard line on A Serious Man, and I see no reason to deviate from it, is that this is ...
Rush to Judgment
Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009
You simply wish to nip over to France for a couple, three weeks, prior to the full-on rush of prize-hunters ...
Huff-Puff
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
The pace holds steady…. The September Issue. R.J. Cutler’s documentary version of The Devil Wears Prada, a revealing inside look ...
Taking Stock
Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009
Collision of the end of summer and the start of fall: massive pileup. Quite separate from the seven new movies ...
The Russians Have Come, The Russians Have Come
Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009
The latest offering of “alternative” cinema at the Reading Gaslamp comes up easily to the Landmark caliber. Which, in light ...
Under the Wire
Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009
August, the customary summer dumping ground, has suddenly yielded the best wide-release mainstream films of the season. And a long, ...
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