Film Review Archives
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Spotlight (2015, 128 min., R)
This terrific newspaper movie gets all the elements right
Spree (2020, 93 min., R)
Man Bites Dog hits the influencer generation
Spriggan (1998, 90 min., R)
This animated 1998 actioner about a Japanese superspy out to defend the world's most guarded archaeological secrets from evil Americans has to be seen to be believed. The frenzied, realistic animation (by the team who also ...
Spring (2015, 109 min., NR)
A genre-tinged story about a love affair abroad keeps us guessing
In turns appealing and horrifying, those contrasts are at the heart of Harmony Korine’s latest outing.
A Buddhist monk, viewed from childhood to old age, becomes a vehicle for exploring the journey of the soul in this cinematically rich Korean film.
Sprung (1997, 105 min., R)
The title refers to being in love, a state that's pure anathema to any man who aspires to well and truly be “The Mack.” At least that's what self-styled ladies' man Clyde (Terry) keeps telling his ...
Spun (2002, 101 min., NR)
Drive. Wait. Score. Pop. Repeat. Being a speed freak is hard work. Repetitive and endless and tiring. And funny? Spun takes everything about this extreme state of being, cranks it into overdrive, and lets the pieces ...
Sputnik (2020, 107 min., R)
Russian sci-fi horror is a welcome break from all the '80s throwbacks
Spy (2015, 120 min., R)
The Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy comedy onslaught continues with a Bond parody
Fascinating documentary about spy/baseball player Moe Berg never cracks his code
Spy Game (2001, 121 min., R)
Ponderous and bulky, swaddled in an aura of flimsy import, Spy Game is the first Tony Scott film I've actively disliked on an almost visceral level. There's a specific point in the film that I can ...
Spy Hard (1996, 81 min., PG-13)
Filled to the bursting point with witless, sub-Mad magazine movie parodies, pointless cameos by a seemingly endless parade of has-beens, and once-hysterical, now stale jokes lifted straight from Airplane! and the original Naked Gun, Spy Hard ...
Spy Kids (2001, 90 min., PG)
The first entry in Rodriguez's kids action movie remains the best in the series.
Preteen superspies Carmen (Vega) and Juni Cortez (Sabara) return for more family-friendly hijinks in this locally filmed follow-up to last year's boffo Spy Kids. After a daring rescue of the president's daughter (Momsen) at an amusement ...
If imagination could be harnessed as an energy source, I suspect local filmmaker Robert Rodriguez could power a small nation all on his own, but after 90 minutes immersed in the video-game world of Spy Kids ...
The family-friendly spy franchise is revived once again, this time with a "fourth dimension" of scratch and sniff.
Jackie Chan plays an undercover CIA agent who turns out to be a disastrous babysitter for his girlfriend's three kids.
Kunis and McKinnon run to Europe, but forget to pack jokes
A scathing and uncomfortable satire of the art world
A satchel full of ill-gotten cash looms over the characters like the iconic root of all evil in this fantastic Australian suspenser.
The Squeeze (2015, 95 min., PG-13)
Gamblers, mobsters, and high-stakes golf matches
In this expertly acted piece about the coming apart of a family of New York intellectuals, humor is served not with a smirk but with a helpless shrug.
St. Vincent (2014, 103 min., PG-13)
Bill Murray plays a hard-hearted grouch who warms to his new neighbors – Melissa McCarthy and her young son.
Victor/Victoria meets Shakespeare in Love at A Star Is Born in this gender-bending backstage story.
3-D Russian film about the bloody Battle of Stalingrad.
Stalingrad (1993, 135 min., NR)
Set in the waning months of 1942, Stalingrad follows with nightmarish accuracy the German Sixth Army's disastrous attempt to take the Russian port city of the title. As seen through the eyes of four German stormtroopers ...
Coogan and Reilly breathe tender life into the Hollywood icons
The film stars Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin as a trio of petty crooks who reunite postretirement to settle some old scores and rediscover the meaning of friendship.
The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris delves into the notorious photographs taken at Abu Ghraib to discover the "truths" they contain and whatever culpabilities they might reveal.