Almost Heroes

"...plus. As with many duff comedies, the concept of Almost Heroes is actually pretty sound. It seems that early..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission

Latest anime outing for the heroes-in-training is loud but not much fun

"...the second film in the series, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising, the oddly high-stakes World Heroes' Mission picks up..."

Oct. 29, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Imaginary Heroes

Only this troubled suburbanite family knows if they are imaginary heroes or ordinary people.

"...wonder. Harris’ film has a third act that consists almost entirely of skeletons tumbling out of the closet, but..."

March 11, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Heroes and Villains: Mike Love

Q&A with Beach Boys mainstay prior to Sunday’s Moody show

"...Beach Boys” shirt, and she was singing along to almost all the songs. When you see that kind of..."

Jan. 18, 2014 Music Post by Luke Winkie

Heroes on the Half Shell

The oyster is Austin's world

"...oysters in the Gulf since 1980. The menu is almost exclusively seafood, with a variety of oyster dishes, and..."

May 6, 2016 Food Feature by Jessi Cape

The Searchers

Regarded by many as Ford's masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time, this John Wayne Western is a meditation on survival, the loss of faith, and the death of heroes.

"...about the loss of faith and the death of heroes. The classic Western heroes, those who helped break the..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Chronicle Guide to the Marvel Cinematic Universe

As Captain America enters a Brave New World, every MCU film reviewed

"...The Marvel Cinematic Universe has lost its greatest heroes, but there's still some avenging to be done. Now..."

Feb. 14, 2025 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie

"...the art of Ninjetti (read: Ninja), so that our heroes can hop in some cool new robots and save..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Don't Look Back

Why the crush at the Hole in the Wall on Wednesdays?

"...sweep the room with its atmospheric, dusty Southwestern instrumentals, almost in defiance of what a country bar-band should be...."

April 4, 2008 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

First Man

Gosling and Chazelle's moon man biopic soars

"...space exploration is a rescue mission: to reclaim as heroes these fragile men, strapping themselves into ramshackle machines and..."

Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Big Short

The financial meltdown of 2008 is treated with terrific comic spin

"...Funny or Die – a name that suggests an almost-grim commitment to merrymaking – and there’s something of the..."

Dec. 25, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Avengers: Infinity War

Earth's mightiest heroes face their greatest, most nuanced threat

"...know exactly what all of that means is an almost unprecedented achievement in pop culture history. Nineteen interlocking films..."

April 27, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

V/H/S/2

Horror anthology scares up few thrills.

"...– helped usher in with The Blair Witch Project), almost all of the imagery is of the low-light, shaky-cam..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pokémon: The Movie

"...short has lots of background detail, giving it an almost psychedelic look, while the feature is more two-dimensional-looking, with..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cool Runnings

This movie about those most unlikely of sports heroes – the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team – is often silly but almost never funny.

"...Runnings, a movie about those most unlikely of sports heroes -- the Jamaican Olympic bobsled team -- is often..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

True Romance

"...several groups of killers on the trail of our heroes. Slater is Clarence Worley, a Detroit comic-shop employee who..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Best of the Best Two

"...gang, and Roberts (who, as far as martial arts heroes go, looks almost as scrawny as his kid sister..."

March 12, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

Romero revivifies even more zombies with this new picture, but now the filmmaker depicts humankind as hardly worth saving.

"...Dead in which the cigarette-jonesing security cop tells the heroes he's "got an idea – maybe we can make..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eternals

Marvel’s immortal heroes overstay their welcome

"...mixed his ongoing obsession with the blurry lines between superheroes and gods, and added in a layer of New..."

Nov. 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Dark Waters

Todd Haynes' courtroom drama is a true-life environmental horror

"...run by E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. Almost against his better judgment, Bilott ended up taking the..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

The slang-slinging, sewer-dwelling, pizza-loving lot are back.

"...brutish Foot Clan lands her face-to-face with Manhattan’s secret heroes – a slang-slinging, sewer-dwelling, pizza-loving lot – and the..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Iron Man 2

Despite a high tech sheen and an excellent but overstuffed cast, this sequel feels more like a setup for the upcoming Avengers movie than its own picture.

"...Stark as one of Marvel Comics' all-time great flawed heroes. Also on hand for some seriously excellent catsuited butt-kicking..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vice

Unsubtle Dick Cheney bio-pic is the political bludgeon we deserve

"...Bale captures the character in a way that feels almost molecular; it’s an extraordinary feat of a person dissolving..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Grown Ups

Grown Ups is the latest in an ongoing series of achingly nostalgic Adam Sandler schmaltzfests.

"...Steve Buscemi fans, desperate for a fix of their heroes’ ever-dwindling screen careers?; or d) seriously, who cares? The..."

June 25, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

P.S. I Love You

Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank needs to call her agent before getting involved in any more romantic codswallop like this.

"...a terrific screenwriter (The Fisher King, The Ref, Unstrung Heroes), but this adaptation (with Steve Rogers) of Cecelia Ahern's..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clerks II

Kevin Smith is on solid footing with this sequel, which finds the filmmaker and his raunchy protagonists at the precipice of maturity but moving ahead with cautious baby steps.

"...performance is so breezy and seemingly effortless that she almost single-handedly elevates the quality of Smith's movie, which is..."

July 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pooh's Heffalump Movie

It’s not big and bright and busy and boffo, but it's a perfectly marvelous matinee option for young children. It’s a sweet little story, from a kid’s-eye view, about the anguish of being too little to do stuff.

"...by: Frank Nissen. We debated whether to bring our almost 3-year-old to this traditionally animated Disney featurette – it’s..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Ray

Ray Charles, we can't stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.

"...this past summer, making it seem like the movie’s almost fairy-tale episode of Charles kicking heroin is the real..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Seabiscuit

"...Gary Ross fills in back story for his three heroes, awkwardly interweaving their separate threads. Howard makes a fortune..."

July 25, 2003 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Three to Tango

"...over. Three to Tango isn't as bad as, oh, Almost Heroes, but rather than stretching Perry's comic talents, it..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

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