Film Review Archives
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Standout doc about the Sixties explores still relevant lessons in police oppression
R.I.P.D. (2013, 96 min., PG-13)
The Rest in Peace Department of undead police officers is joined by a recently slain cop.
Ripe (1997, 93 min., NR)
When their parents die in a car accident that leaves the 14-year-old fraternal twin sisters -- Violet (Keena) and Rosie (Eagan) -- unbruised, the two decide to take off on their own and head, for some ...
Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.
Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and the Sandman team together like Cartoon All-Stars in this animated picture.
The special effects in this prequel may be infinitely more elaborate, but they hold little of the charm and "humanity" of the original.
Risen (2016, 107 min., PG-13)
A Roman soldier is sent to track a rumor about the Christ's resurrection
Ironically, Japanophile Kaufman, assigned to Michael Crichton's xenophobic Rising Sun, decided to go classicly hard-boiled as a way of defusing the novel. In nationally specific terms, he de-politicized the book, shifting from an attack on Japan's ...
Ambitious elevator horror falls straight to the ground floor
Risk (2017, 94 min., NR)
Doc follows WikiLeaks' Julian Assange
“Sexy energy” is how Nikki (Price) describes the dynamic between her brother Joe (Ilku) and his girlfriend Maya (Sillas) in Deidre Fishel's debut film Risk. Their energy is palpable and their romance is quick and passionate. ...
After 70 years of being someone else, the screen legend gets to be herself
The Rite (2011, 112 min., PG-13)
In this supernatural thriller, Anthony Hopkins plays a Vatican-based exorcist who trains a doubting seminary student to drive out the Devil.
River (2023, 75 min., NR)
Astonishing nature documentary forces us to reconsider our connection to our waterways
More than a nature hike, this border wall documentary replaces rhetoric with reality
Music and culture connected in West Louisville
What compels Robert Redford to make movies from seemingly impossible subject matter? Politics? Self-challenge? Masochism? An affinity for the visual beauty of the written word? Whatever the motivation, we are the richer for his labors. In ...
There's something empowering about watching Meryl Streep navigate the rapids in The River Wild. Directed by Curtis Hanson (The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Bedroom Window), this film marks Streep's first full-fledged action picture. The ...
Andy Goldsworthy's art of the ephemeral in nature is granted permanence in this feature documentary.
Rize (2005, 84 min., PG-13)
Celebrity photographer David LaChapelle casts his lens toward the newest L.A. dance craze.
The first images of Zhang Yimou's The Road Home are startling -- a jittery, through-the-window vantage on an unplowed mountain road winding through desolate rural China, photographed in flat, stark black-and-white. Here, thirtysomething city worker Luo ...
The ultimate POV rush with Russian dash-cam compilation
Shot in 1991, Road Scholar is that rare film: a documentary road movie that looks at America with eyes not hampered by the rose-tinted cultural nostalgia which so often plagues similar ventures. The expected, whiny sense ...
Perish the day we turn to cartoons for historical accuracy -- a philosophy that serves The Road to El Dorado well, for this new animated picture is more buddy movie than informative history lesson. Obviously, there's ...
Conventional Mexican crime drama
That gunshot to the head in the last moments of Sam Mendes' American Beauty was something of a portent; his follow-up, The Road to Perdition, is a death binge, with a new bullet to the brain ...
Produced by Billy Graham's World Wide Pictures, this breezy, earnest dramedy takes the old “on the run from the mob” storyline and adds a heavy dose of evangelical Christianity -- strange bedfellows, indeed. While it's competently ...
Simply execrable, or just plain shitty? Parker's take on T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel about cereal magnate and health food guru Kellogg is a muddled mess of boorish scatological jokes and preachy asides that goes nowhere, does ...
Road Trip (2000, 93 min., R)
Teen sex farce meets teen gross-out comedy, which I suppose makes this a sexy movie for gross teens, or vice versa. All I know is that guys are strongly advised to avoid this on a first ...
The Road (2009, 119 min., R)
Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel survives the transition to the screen with remarkable veracity.