Movie Reviews
The recognizable face of Tom Hanks is something of a distraction.
Movies reviewed this week: The Incredibles, Ray, Saw, Sideways, and Surviving Christmas In bare outline, Sideways would look like a hundred other buddy comedies. Jack is getting married in a week. Miles, his freshman roommate …
Well, hell. You might suppose that a few decades of reviewing movies, especially the two-plus since Ronald Reagan moved into the White House, would have inured a person to mass displays of bad taste and …
It had to happen sometime. The Man Who Wasn't There is the first Coen brothers movie to disappoint me. That’s not to say that it’s not good, certainly not to say that it’s not even …
Don’t expect am sustained and coherent thought from me any time soon. Like, say, before Judgment Day. But if shorts and the soaps can return to television, I suppose I am obligated to tear myself …
Among people who know me just well enough to speak to, and not well enough to care whether we ever speak again, the most frequently and I suspect ghoulishly asked question over the years has …
It’s silly of me, I know. It has got nothing to do with what’s on the screen. But one of my earliest reactions to Fargo — my feeling about it before I even saw it …
Let's be clear; it matters little to me whether E.T. lives or dies (except that in the second eventuality I could have gone home sooner); it matters even less to art.
Movie critic’s marginalia, 1981. 1. The Sixth Annual Willa Cather Citation for the classiest title of the movie year goes to The Watcher in the Woods, which meets the originality requirement for this award by …
Some weeks ago, with no new movie in town worth writing about, and pretty much stumped for a way to wheedle another paycheck out of my publisher, I decided it might not be too troublesome …
Duncan Shepherd The Fifth Annual Willa Cather Citation for the classiest title of the movie year goes to Hide in Plain Sight, not a very Catherian title, certainly, but perfectly suitable for something on the …
1) What's in a name? a. The Fourth Annual Willa Cather Citation for the classiest title of the movie year is conferred on Yanks, with much the same reluctance as when Carl Yastrzemski was crowned …
The media rampage on the Kennedy twins is not something that originated in the family. The publicity came out of the fact that the PR department of the hospital leaked the word to the press.
Of the many and varied reasons for the peculiar disrepute of movie critics in the public mind (peculiar in that the movie critic's vocation, unlike that of such other low-rated types as the embalmer and …
Film festivals over the past several years have come to be recognized, like hospitals per capita or major league sports franchises, as one of the most visible status symbols available to a modern metropolis, or …
One of the inexpungeable articles of faith in contemporary film criticism maintains that any sequel is cursed by fate, genetics, the law of diminishing returns, and the fickleness of film critics to fall short of …