In Theaters
The Grey
Joe Carnahan’s poetically virile Alaskan survival tale offers up
some of the most unpleasant moments you can spend at the movies.
I guess that’s the point...
Joyful Noise
Don’t let all that corn-shucking gosh-darn-it
stuff fool you: this is one canny movie...
War Horse
Steven Spielberg’s epic drama is technically superb and
clearly heartfelt. It is also, I’m sad to say, an odd mix
that sometimessoars, sometimes, doesn’t...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
By focusing on the strongest part of the best selling novels, David Fincher
and Steve Zallian have delivered a stylish, mesmerizing thriller...
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
If Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was too cerebral for you,
this movie should make you very happy...
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
This is a mass appeal movie that actually appeals. Jolly good.
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Each scene in this wonderfully mounted production is so near perfect,
Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John LeCarre’s classic Cold War espionage
novel can almost be forgiven for not tieing it all together as well...
I Melt With You
I don’t know who was more miserable: the
charactersin this movie or me, watching them...
A Dangerous Method
David Cronenberg’s take on the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jungis not just a
fascinating look back at the developments of psychotherapy, but very much a remarkable
love story, one between two men and the woman who drove them apart...
The Artist
This is a movie that sweeps over you like a warm breeze with a
self-assured artistry as undeniable as it’s soulful lessons of love...
The Descendants
This movie had me the minute George Clooney, as the responsible but not
particularly engaged Matt King, describes himself as the “backup parent”...
J. Edgar
This is an awfully polite movie about a man who was anything but...
Tower Heist
Silly and well intentioned, this comic action flick feels like a big overstuffed buffet…
boasting a few hearty treats and bloated with a bunch of excessive other stuff...
Ides of March
Ironic: this is a movie about politics that, like most
politicians, promises far more than it ever delivers...
50/50
Unsentimental, smart and funny, this dramatic comedy
is the best film about illness I’ve ever seen...
Moneyball
Like Billy Beane’s 2002 Oakland A’s, this movie may not be a
total winner, but it sure offers up a lot of memorable thrills...
I Don’t Know How She Does It.
Do you have to be a married, working mom to really appreciate this one?
Well, to be fair (one of the basic themes of this comedy), it’s not going to hurt...
Drive
It is with the utmost respect I compare Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive
to some of the seminal movies of the 1970’s….because Drive is as
heartpoundingly good as it is slim, stark and hard to shake...
Contagion
Chilly, but not chilling, Steven Soderbergh’s story
of a worldwide pandemic is oddly antiseptic...
The Help
Well intentioned and likeable, I would have loved this one had its take on the women
of 1960’s Mississippi been a little less, pardon the expression, black and white...
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
This nonsensical tale, by tapping into our most basic emotions, delivers a
science fiction movie that makes profound sense, especially right now...
Cowboys and Aliens
Considering its pedigree, I was expecting (and hoping) for more,
but, as it stands, the mash up of genres still entertains...
Crazy, Stupid Love
I love this movie. Crazy, smart, loving and laugh out loud funny, this romantic
comedy is the best of its kind not just for this, but for many recent years...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2
This, the final chapter, is a remarkable achievement:
as piercingly true as it is astonishingly magical...
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
This clumsy adaptation of Lisa See’s popular novel may not be the biggest problem
Rupert Murdoch’s got on his plate, but it sure isn’t going to help things, either...
Horrible Bosses
Would I have really enjoyed this trio-in-trouble comedy if
I hadn’t felt it was a force feed of the Hangover formula?
A Better Life
Chris Weitz’s light touch has made this incredibly
timely immigrant story especially profound...
Green Lantern
If, indeed, it is true there are only seven original stories in this world, surely
the super-hero comic genre’s got a corner on the market on one of them...
X Men: First Class
Director Matthew Vaughn has shaken the cobwebs off the franchise
and confidently delivered this prequel as a first class blockbuster...
The Hangover, Part II
In this world of give-‘em-what-they-want, the team behind the 2009 comedy
hit has reconvened to try and do just that. Too bad it doesn’t work...
The Tree of Life
Ambitious and imperfect, stunning and overwhelming, profound and perplexing,
Terrence Malick’s mediation on human life and our place in the universe is one
of the most arguably exciting movies to come along in years...
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
I don’t usually like to review a movie through the prism of its budget, but, after
spending a reported $200 million, shouldn’t this one be more of a wow?
Bridesmaids
Thanks to Kristin Wiig, her writing partner Annie Mumolo, Judd Apatow and Paul Fieg,
we’ve got a dandy femme-centric, outrageously funny and downright smart comedy
that nails one of the most emotionally wrought feminine rites of passage...
Everything Must Go
This poignant indie has a lot going for it. Not only is there a finely wrought slice-of-life lesson here,
but there’s also a wonderful cast playing it out, lead by a surprisingly wonderful Will Ferrell...
Opening in Wide Release
Man On A Ledge
One For The Money
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Also in Theaters
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Haywire
Red Tails
Underworld Awakening
Beauty and the Beast 3D
Contraband
The Devil Inside
The Darkest Hour
The Adventures of Tintin
We Bought a Zoo
The Darkest Hour
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
New Year's Eve
The Sitter
My Week With Marilyn
Arthur Christmas
Hugo
The Muppets
Happy Feet Two
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
Immortals
Jack and Jill
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