"Meeghan Morongova: Boundless Abandon" at Butridge Gallery

The photographer's first solo show is a clever and colorful fabrication of portraits

"...The show is called "Boundless Abandon," and yeah, the abandon is pretty damned boundless, all..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Abandon

"...a game rather than watching a movie. The university-themed Abandon is no different. Although the film attempts to meld..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gay Place: Intention ... With Abandon

Good intentions pave the way to more pool parties and storming the bastille

July 13, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

Don't Abandon Pets

"...dog. What I cannot understand is the justification of abandoning a helpless animal to cut costs. How much money..."

April 22, 2009 Postmarks

One Family Won't Abandon Ship: The Last Holdout

Feb. 14, 1997 News Feature

No Impact Man

Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, and his cooperative family are the subjects of this documentary about their yearlong project in environmental sustainability.

"...daughter, Isabella. These New York City dwellers elected to abandon material consumption and buy nothing new over the course..."

Oct. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pinocchio

"...longed for fondue forks to be plunged with feverish abandon into my eyes and ears, the better to enact..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Harriet

Overdue biopic of the fearless anti-slavery hero loses sight of reality

"...lead fugitives, and defies patriarchal authority to refuse to abandon those still shackled by the “monster of slavery,” and..."

Nov. 1, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gloria Bell

Julianne Moore excels (as always) in this funny, poignant character study

"...through the wringer, Moore radiates hope and caution, joyful abandon and the heaviness of another heartache behind her. Again,..."

March 22, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Meg

This giant shark tale simply lacks bite

"...a submersible 50 fathoms down and was forced to abandon ship, as it were, leaving behind other crew members..."

Aug. 10, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Baja

Kerouac-loving road trip stalls out fast.

"...times, the film reaches for larger themes only to abandon them. For instance, the four leads broach a conversation..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Other Side of Hope

Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants

"...Two men abandon their former lives and take big gambles on attaining..."

Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Salesman

Gripping drama from the director of A Separation

"...high school teacher, and his wife Rana (Alidoosti) must abandon their home after a construction bulldozer compromises the infrastructure..."

Feb. 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

About Last Night

Sexual perversity is released with gleeful abandon in this second film outing for Mamet's 40-year-old play.

"...Los Angeles and reinstates the sexual perversity with gleeful abandon for a talk-heavy, hard-R comedy about hooking up and..."

Feb. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

After Earth

Often gorgeous, sometimes fascinating, this Smith-family outing is ultimately unwieldy and unsurprising.

"...A millennium after humans have been forced to abandon Earth, the planet has reverted to a wild, malevolent..."

May 31, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

Carnage

Roman Polanski directs this chamber piece about the demise of social decorum that's adapted from the play God of Carnage.

"...may be thin, but Waltz chews it with wolfish abandon...."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Rite

In this supernatural thriller, Anthony Hopkins plays a Vatican-based exorcist who trains a doubting seminary student to drive out the Devil.

"...from God, it is unsurprising that Michael decides to abandon the priestly gig before taking his vows. Yet the..."

Feb. 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

Quite the opposite of treacly holiday fare, this European import features one very bad Santa.

"...what this Christmas Tale does, it does with wild abandon. When a multinational corporation begins taking seismic samples (so..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jackass 3D

Now with even more stupefying stunts and added dimensions.

"...while testicles and taboos are smashed flat with equal abandon. Jackass is 10 years old this year but thankfully..."

Oct. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

This collegiate coming-of-age comedy is about as exciting as near-beer.

"...his friends and swills the bad life with reckless abandon, but he's also a suit-and-tie guy waiting to happen...."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

Jeremy Piven stars in this swift-moving, cynical, equal-opportunity offender about a team of used-car liquidators.

"...film flings about insults and crass jokes with the abandon of a more Middle-American-seeming Ari Gold (Piven’s character on..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II is the most splendidly imaginative and creatively uncorked piece of fantastic cinema since his Pan's Labyrinth netted an Oscar trifecta in 2007.

"...Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. Co-scripted with wild abandon and plenty of heart by del Toro and the..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Grand

There's some truly hilarious material (though not nearly enough) in this partially improvised movie about characters competing in a Las Vegas championship poker tournament.

"...deliciously funny moments are scattered about with such carefree abandon? Harrelson (in a bad hairpiece) is cast as the..."

April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Resident Evil: Extinction

Milla Jovovich continues to fight zombies and the apocalypse.

"...apocalyptic cinescapes (such as Hitchcock's The Birds) with wild abandon. Say what you like about the Resident Evil series..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hatchet

The terrifically retro maniac in this horror film recalls the heyday of Eighties gore films with gleeful abandon.

"...heyday of Eighties gore films with such gleeful, moist abandon. Hatchet (whose malformed antagonist resembles nothing so much as..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eight Below

We smell penguins, even though Eight Below's animals are really a pack of sled dogs in a wonderful man-and-dog movie.

"...American scientific outpost, whose human members are ordered to abandon the base when one of those "perfect storms" (that..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Green Street Hooligans

The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.

"...he gets and cracking skulls with something approaching gleeful abandon. Green Street Hooligans is at its best when it..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lords of Dogtown

This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.

"...wheels on asphalt, the windy rebel thrill of curb-hopping abandon, and the pure delight of what was and is..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jersey Girl

Ben Affleck plays a widower dad in this family dramedy from an uncustomarily sweet Kevin Smith.

"...stars as Ollie Trinke, a Manhattan publicist who must abandon the big city and move back to his hometown..."

March 26, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sweet Home Alabama

"...pleasantly enough, but rarely cuts loose with the rowdy abandon of the song that inspired it. What it needs..."

Sept. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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