Dasavatharam

New Indian film is a biotechnology action mystery that takes place one week before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.

"...for the fourth time with director Ravikumar. Dasavatharam uses chaos theory and the butterfly effect to help explain its..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paprika

The multilayered Paprika, the newest animated film from Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers) captures the childlike, helter-skelter chaos and curiosity of the human mind better than any other animated film.

"...suitable for kids, manages to capture the childlike, helter-skelter chaos and curiosity of the human mind better than any..."

July 20, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ratatouille

Pixar scores another triumph of animated wonder with this story of a rat who craves haute cuisine over garbage.

"...flawless; colorful, deeply realized, and ably conveying both the chaos of the kitchen, and the sensual allure of food..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shrek the Third

The big, green cash machine has finally run dry, perhaps not of box-office power but most assuredly of the caustic wit that made the first two films so winning.

"...among them Captain Hook, the Evil Queen, and Rumpelstiltskin. Chaos ensues, though not amusingly so. Shrek the Third is..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Babel

Four disparate stories are woven into an eloquent and electrifying depiction of mankind's increasingly fractured state.

"...is an incendiary piece of cinematic ordnance, backlighting incipient chaos and the random yet infinitely complex nature of human..."

Nov. 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

District B13

Set in the near-future of 2010, this French import is not big on plot exposition, instead focusing on its finely wrought action momentum, which moves ever forward with rushing exhilaration.

"...the core city to protect its citizens from the chaos of the suburban ghettos, which in turn are controlled..."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story

Tristram Shandy’s inspired, breakneck madness provides a good forum for Michael Winterbottom’s chief talent: the illumination of human nature, with all its messes and occasional marvels.

"...film-within-the-film’s examination of parenting. Quite astonishingly, amidst all the chaos – and there’s no better word for Tristram Shandy’s..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Bee Season

Myla Goldberg’s novel about spelling-bee fever, a family in chaos, and religious/mystic exploration arrives on the screen with all its faults intact but few of its charms.

"...Myla Goldberg’s novel about spelling-bee fever, a family in chaos, and religious/mystic exploration arrives on the screen with all..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Seed of Chucky

Over-the-top gore is the rule when Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their anatomically incorrect offspring.

"...voodoo-inflected metaphor for addictive personality disorder and the resulting chaos it can inflict on an otherwise healthy relationship, but..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Resident Evil: Apocalypse

You can't keep a bad zombie down.

"...especially well, and he has an eye for night-lensed chaos, but ultimately his fight choreography ends up being so..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Butterfly Effect

Ashton Kutcher lays to waste a promising script involving time travel and unforeseeable consequences.

"...Elden Henson, Eric Stoltz and Melora Walters. Taking the meteorological/chaos-theory tenet that the flapping of a butterfly’s wings in..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cheaper by the Dozen

Cheaper comedy dozen't add up.

"...Bakers’ dozen turns the family’s domestic life into raging chaos. Young star Hilary Duff gets to play a secondary..."

Dec. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat

Bad cat makes stink in theatre.

"...sporadically funny but only just so, and its sugar-high chaos gives you little but woe. It’s too loud, it’s..."

Nov. 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Riotous comedy mixes live-action and animation for a great result.

"...Bugs and Daffy that carry this riotous, everything-and-the-kitchen-sink film. Chaos, obviously, is timeless...."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Masked and Anonymous

The answers to this new Bob Dylan movie are "blowin’ in the wind."

"...kind of fictional America, riven by civil war and chaos and looking more like a lawless banana republic than..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

"...much of a good thing, this unreined tumult of chaos. Yes, it’s a kick to see the top-heavy Mr...."

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

"...burgeoning paramour, and Pfeiffer as Eris, the Goddess of Chaos. Anyone who’s seen Wolf can fall in line with..."

July 4, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spider

"...themes of mental and physical dissolution – Cleg’s interior chaos and mental rot is mirrored with perfect imprecision in..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times

"...in which the speaker tackles everything from the political chaos arising post 9/11 to globalization, the West's role in..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Punch-Drunk Love

Sandler plays a socially inept, outwardly calm warehouse worker who harbors a maelstrom of rage.

"...oddly sedate compared to his usual smorgasbord of human chaos. Sandler's regular fanbase, too, will probably leave the theatre..."

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Big Bad Love

"...their two little children, and he's the dad as chaos theory; whatever he can do wrong, he will do..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Time and Tide

"...with this mind-boggling and terrifically thrilling slice of cinematic chaos, and not a heartbeat too soon. Ostensibly another HK..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chopper

Story of legendary Australian renegade and dreamer.

"...from planet Thug Life, here to inject a little chaos into ordinary society. Ultimately, Chopper's just another pathetic, fast-fisted..."

June 15, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Cried

"...both oppressed by their bloodlines, thrust together amid the chaos of war -- it ought to work like gangbusters,..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Goodbye South, Goodbye

"...his focus from the countryside to the loud, fast chaos of suburban Taipei. Moving shots (radically different from his..."

Nov. 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wirey Spindell

"...meaning, jokes, and stunning women amid the city's creative chaos. Schaeffer has repeated this narcissistic pattern in his three..."

March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember … Yes, I Remember

"...implies, this is a pure release into the tender chaos of memory, in which the only overt structure is..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Snake Eyes

"...Snake Eyes becomes a reconstructive thriller in which the chaos is explained, clarified, and elaborated upon, much like another..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Pi

"...the mystical, revelatory goings-on, but amid the steadily mounting chaos around him, he imparts a kind of feverish, terrifying..."

July 31, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Underground

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, this is a sprawling, epic, comic tale of life during Yugoslavian wartime.

"...collide on an almost existential level; Underground is surreal chaos tamed into subservience. And Kursturica's cast is superb, emotional,..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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