Lion

An orphan's search for his birth mother gets an assist from Google Earth

"...from home, in the teeming, wild streets of Calcutta. After a series of events, he lands in a dodgy..."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Le Week-End

A long-married couple amusingly dance toward the kind of despair borne from overfamiliarity.

"...a sigh. It’s a meaningful introduction to the character. After all, Meg (Duncan), his fed-up wife of 30 years,..."

April 4, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I, Frankenstein

Aaron Eckhart stars as a modern-day Frankenstein, who faces off against supernatural creatures in this film based on the graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux.

"...instead of rotting away in the peaceful and cool earth, or perishing in a windmilling conflagration, or yukking it..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Surfer, Dude

Matthew McConaughey joins with the director of Hand on a Hard Body in this ode to near-naked bodies, weed, and surf-speak. Oh, and it's also a work of fiction.

"...hard body: It boggles the mind that 11 years after his engrossing documentary about an endurance competition to win..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Southland Tales

Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.

"...unfortunate result of a identity duplication that took place after a rift in the fourth-dimensional space-time continuum caused by..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Aviator

Scorsese's best film in years is a work of bravura, classic Hollywood filmmaking.

"...as the key female figure in Hughes’ adult life (after his mother, of course, who is introduced briefly in..."

Dec. 24, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Exorcist: The Beginning

Help us, Lucifer. This prequel is cursed.

"...you’ve probably been saying to yourself, "Gosh, where on earth can I find a horror movie that features dead..."

Aug. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fahrenheit 9/11

Michael Moore's agitprop is a political scorcher.

"...the Palm d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival after receiving a 20-plus minute standing ovation, is nothing if..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dragonfly

"...to say. Joe's trying to let the grieving begin after his wife Emily, a doctor, goes missing on a..."

Feb. 22, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Early Man

Aardman's prehistoric animation has some evolving to do.

"...place when an errant meteor slams down on prehistoric Earth and startled cavemen kick around its burning-embers remains. It’s..."

Feb. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Darling

A woman appears to go ’round the bend in this well-done horror film

"...but with this and Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth, appears to be mildly trending with indie filmmakers, apparently...."

April 15, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

People Places Things

Indie relationship comedy starring Jemaine Clement is slight but sweet

"...low-stakes. It’s not like there’s an asteroid crashing to Earth or anything. But real-life cataclysms tend to be more..."

Aug. 21, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Pixels

Ever wish you could pixelate Adam Sandler?

"...comedies, the film is nevertheless flat-footed and grows tedious after the first hour. The screenplay by Sandler regulars, Tim..."

July 24, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Moviegoers Assemble!

"...it, Tony Stark finds himself thinking a bit bigger. After all, 2012's The Avengers saw the arms dealer-turned-do-gooder and..."

May 1, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

The Boy Next Door

Jennifer Lopez stars in this brazenly dumb MILF thriller.

"...Homer and swap out an alternator with equal ease. After their mutual attraction culminates in a steamy midnight fuck,..."

Jan. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Gravity

Sandra Bullock is lost in space – alone with the beauty, terror, and the laws of gravity.

"...In space, no one can hear you. Certainly not after a Russian satellite explodes and a mile-wide debris field..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Four Space Nerds Sitting Around Talking…

Space Tech After NASA: Boom Time for Innovation, or those were the days?

"...the Omni to catch the last one, Space Tech After NASA: Boom Times for Innovation?...."

March 13, 2013 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

The Intergalactic Nemesis Strikes Back

The live action graphic novel debuts book two this week

"...After a pan-galactic trip (well, to the nation's stages) Austin's..."

June 7, 2012 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Point Blank

In this frenzied French thriller, a man races to save his wife's life – and then races some more.

"...repeatedly makes movies about husbands who move heaven and earth to rescue their imperiled wives...."

Sept. 2, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Around the House

Negativity thrives in state House primary run-offs

"...defeated lawyer Holly Turner, 54% to 46%, but only after a scorched-earth campaign smearing her as a carpetbagger, an..."

April 16, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Army experiments in the paranormal become a warped platform on which George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey run narrative circles.

"...soldier that came out of the military’s mid-Eighties’ “New Earth Army,” the brainchild of Bill Django (Bridges), a Vietnam..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sex and the City

The new feature stands on its own (typically stilettoed) feet, while holding fast to the series’ singular mix of the giddily ribald and brutally confessional.

"...of best gal pals. We pick up several years after the series’ finale, with Carrie on the precipice of..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Teeth

Austin-shot horror pic about a girl who discovers that her naughty bits are bitey.

"...Sam Gross (with a healthy dose of John Waters salt-of-the-earth lasciviousness sprinkled throughout), Teeth is all over the tonal..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Am Legend

After a terrific start marked by the film's striking views of a desolate Manhattan island, Will Smith's mostly solo action movie devolves into a monster-movie malaise.

"...a couple of times as The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price and The Omega Man starring Charlton..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Fans of the novel can exhale, finally; panic is unwarranted. On the other hand, audiences unfamiliar with Douglas Adams’ bizarre world may wonder what all the fuss is about.

"...and from here on out it’s one loony adventure after another, all with a decidedly Monty Python-esque edge. Eventually,..."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

An affectionate parody of 1950s sci-fi movies, The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra spoofs ’til it poops out.

"...drive-in fodder that Blamire is aiming at – but after the introduction of the main characters The Lost Skeleton..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gerry

"...Affleck. Gus Van Sant gets back to narrative basics after mucking around in the commercial wilderness of Finding Forrester..."

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Gambler

"...for Luise Rainer, the back-to-back Oscar winner (The Good Earth and The Great Ziegfeld) who returns here to the..."

Oct. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

DVDanger: Box Sets of Blood

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Nightbreed, and more Vincent Price

"...ready to call a cop," gasps Kirk (William Vail) after he helps kick the maniac hitchhiker (Ed Neal) out..."

Oct. 28, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

'Veronica Mars' Kickstarter Ends With a Bang

Movie project raised $5.7 million in one month

"...Earth to Mars! Or, rather, we should say, "Mars to..."

April 13, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

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