Movie Reviews
Review: Hancock
Dear Will Smith: You’re a naturally likable guy. That’s why you’re one of the biggest movie stars in the world — because people like you. So why in the world would you want to appear in a movie in which you’re so not likable — especially in a disaster like HANCOCK?
Review: Gone Baby Gone
It’s easy enough to mock Ben Affleck after the downward trajectory into ridiculousness his career took, especially between 2002 and 2005 when he was conceptually inseparable from Jennifer Lopez and made a tremendous number of terrible, terrible movies. But I’m not going to mock him now: his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone (for [...]
Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The darkness that began seeping into the Harry Potter series of films with HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN continues to progressively deepen: never has the sense of menace felt as strong as it does in HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE. The ancient halls of Hogwarts have never seemed so confining or so dangerous.
Review: The Nines
A troubled actor under house arrest for arson. A television writer juggling both creative and political concerns trying to get his show on the air. A video game designer trying to find help for his stranded wife and daughter. What do these three men have in common? Well, they’re all played by Ryan Reynolds, for one thing, but the nature of their connections is the mystery at the heart of John August’s thought-provoking but maddening THE NINES.
Review: While You Were Sleeping
There’s a good reason Sandra Bullock took the title of “Queen of the Romantic Comedy” away from Meg Ryan in the middle of the 1990s. Bullock projects a naturally awkward adorableness which makes the audience feel very protective of her: we empathize with her romantic plight and we want her to succeed because she obviously deserves the attention she’s so desperately craving.
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