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Review: Sin City
If you’re reading this review, chances are pretty good that you already know Sin City was adapted by Robert Rodriguez from the series of hard-boiled graphic novels by Frank Miller. You probably already know that Rodriguez used Miller’s stark black-and-white images and kinetic storytelling and intertwines them with his own frenzied filmmaking techniques to come [...]
Review: Daddy Day Care
Daddy Day Care comes off like a movie developed entirely by a studio’s marketing department and focus groups–funny, since that’s exactly what Eddie Murphy‘s character does for a living (albeit for wretched cereal and not wretched movies) before getting sacked and going into the daycare biz. This movie was produced for exactly two reasons: because [...]
Review: Closer
The relationships of four damaged people come under the microscope of director Mike Nichols in Closer, a movie so obviously based on a stage play you can almost see the proscenium arch surrounding the scenes. The screenplay, which was written by Patrick Marber and was indeed based on his play, practically drips with intimacy: rarely [...]
Review: I, Robot
Fresh from the Certainly Better Than I Thought It Was Gonna Be Department, we’ve got Will Smith‘s I, Robot, an entertaining and surprisingly thought-provoking movie. Not too thought-provoking, of course…it’s still a movie largely about a bunch of psycho robots. But coming as it did for me hot on the heels of the abysmal Daddy [...]
Review: Shaun of the Dead
Shaun of the Dead (2004) Grade: A- Directed By: Edgar Wright Written By: Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg Starring: Simon Pegg Kate Ashfield Nick Frost Lucy Davis Bill Nighy Studio: Rogue Pictures It’s exceedingly hard to create a movie (or any other work of fiction) that both lampoons a particular style or genre but also [...]
Review: The Village
M. Night Shyamalan‘s The Village, while not a bad film by any stretch, suffers because of the reputation of its director: if you’ve seen any of his previous movies, you know that at some point there’s going to come a pretty major plot twist, most likely in the last reel of the movie. And if [...]
Review: The Day After Tomorrow
As long as you can shut off that part of your brain that might actually try to think about what you’re watching at all, The Day After Tomorrow can be reasonably enjoyable at times. At other times it borders on financial-report dull. It’s hard to take any movie directed by Roland Emmerich too seriously–he’s in [...]
Review: Garden State
I’m not one who’s usually big on surprises. I tend to like to know what’s going to happen so I can be prepared when it does–I guess that’s why I have a bad habit of seeking out spoilers for the TV shows and movies and comics I enjoy. (OK, “seeking out” might not be quite [...]
Review: Elf
My opinion of Elf essentially boils down to the same one I had of Anchorman: if you like Will Ferrell, you’ll probably like this movie, and if you don’t, then why exactly are you watching it in the first place? The big difference in my opinion of the two movies? Elf (2003) Grade: B- Directed [...]
Review: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Most of the time, technical innovation comes at a price. Most of the time, the movies that show us things we’ve never seen before (or show us old things in new ways) become so concerned with the “hows” of what they’re trying to accomplish that they lose track of the “whats” or, even more frequently, [...]
Review: Tuck Everlasting
Tuck Everlasting falls squarely into the “nice movie” category: it has a nice story, some nice acting, some nice moments, some nice cinematography, though very little about the movie stands out as excellent. But I have to be honest and say that Tuck Everlasting fits into another category as well: movies that are far better [...]
Review: Hero
I don’t really feel like writing a full review of it right this moment, but I will say that you should do yourself a favor and rent Hero is you haven’t seen it. I think that for all the hype that surrounded Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon touting it as this amazing blend of artistic acheivement [...]
Review: 13 Going On 30
All you really need to know: If you like Jennifer Garner (as I really, really do), you’re gonna like this movie; if you don’t (and, hard as it is to believe, there are those people out there), you’re not. It’s that simple. 13 Going On 30 (2004) Grade: B- Directed By: Gary Winick Written By: [...]
Review: About A Boy
Hugh Grant has built his career playing a particular type of character–the dapper, charming, harmless, handsome, loveable Englishman–in a series of romantic comedies chiefly dating back to 1995′s Four Weddings and a Funeral. He’s played that sort of character so frequently and so well that he’s become almost an archetype unto himself, a cottage industry [...]
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