Clue

Jan. 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ready or Not

Party games will be the death of Samara Weaving in this raucous black comedy

"...Part Clue, part You're Next, and part Gormenghast, raucous black comedy..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Testosterone

Part colorful noir, part scatterbrained comedy, Testosterone envisions the severed tether of a presumably functional relationship.

"...public scenes when Pablo’s icy mother (Braga) refuses to clue him in. Early in the film, there’s a hint..."

Nov. 19, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The New Mutants

The last of the X-Men finally get to the screen

"...to be expected, as Boone pretty clearly has no clue about the established New Mutants. Race is undoubtedly an..."

Aug. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Fall of the American Empire

Oscar winner Denys Arcand mixes crime, political commentary

"...recently stolen from a gangster’s safe house. Having no clue how to deal with his newfound fortune, he seeks..."

June 28, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Let the Corpses Tan

Deliciously lurid crime drama is pulp in all the best ways

"...editing, leaping backwards and forwards with time cards to clue the audience in about multiple perspectives of the same..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Game Night

Monopoly was never this brutal before this crime-com.

"...wanted to make a Coen brothers movie for the Clue crowd: Let’s call it kitschy noir...."

Feb. 23, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

The Disaster Artist

The making of one of the most inept films ever made

"...cost of $6 million) without so much of a clue about how to make a movie. After its initial..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Loving Vincent

A lushly painted but boring story of the life of the famous artist

"...piece of nonsense that begins as a game of Clue and ends with the frustration of a game of..."

Oct. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Blade Runner 2049

This visually lush sequel was worth the wait.

"...It’s on that farm that K discovers a perplexing clue literally buried in the ground, which leads him into..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

"...key in search of a lock, and his only clue the surname of Black, scribbled on an envelope. From..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Nothing Like the Holidays

This Christmas-themed movie centers on a family gathering in Chicago's Humboldt Park, a predominantly Puerto Rican section of the city.

"...feels authentic, director De Villa seems to have little clue of how to capture the subtleties of human emotion..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul

In the Tunisian desert, a young girl and her grandfather spin stories of woe, lost love, and religious disenchantment in this trancelike movie.

"...movie began – wandering in that desert without a clue or a map, in the midst of some great..."

July 11, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Nicolas Cage is again on the prowl in this sequel to the 2004 smash success.

"...cinematic series of Russian nesting dolls – crack one clue, and you’re awarded with another, equally inscrutable one. Here,..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Brick

Brick transfers Dashiell Hammett’s hard-boiled universe to the modern high school campus with nary a clue that more than a half-century has passed since the Continental Op’s heyday.

"...to the modern high school campus with nary a clue that more than a half-century has passed since the..."

April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Machinist

Christian Bale lost 60 lbs. in order to play the unsettling title character, a man who has maybe shed his sanity along with his weight.

"...on a table in his apartment provides a solid clue that Trevor’s feeling guilty about something. Yet all through..."

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Statement

The pace of this political thriller about a Nazi collaborator on the run for four decades (Michael Caine) is as listless as the justice system that pursued him.

"...Heat of the Night), but here he hasn’t a clue how to tell this story taken from recent headlines...."

March 12, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Open Range

"...his performance is good, Costner the director hasn’t a clue as to when to say, "Cut." The camera lingers..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Time Machine

"...exactly what's going on, but you won't have a clue as to why. To his credit, Aussie actor Pearce..."

March 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Very Bad Things

"...tastelessness, but Very Bad Things apparently doesn't have a clue where that might be...."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Jealousy

"...waters of emotional malaise and surfaces with nary a clue, although some fine performances from the likes of Eigeman..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Game

"...grabs to the highest bidder? Van Orton hasn't a clue, and neither does the audience. Fincher wisely keeps everyone..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Browning Version

"...no idea what people think of him, or no clue about how badly he is treating others and being..."

Dec. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Jeff Mccord

Radioland Murders

"...it funnier by being more manic. I'm reminded of Clue, another try at a funny whodunit that for all..."

Oct. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Gunmen

"...Van Peebles as mismatched buddies (each has a partial clue regarding the location of the treasure). Leary plays a..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Josh and S.A.M.

"...Tierney's anguished adolescent to Plimpton's enigmatic nomad to Tobolowsky's dad-without-a-clue, the movie is brimming with wonderful, quiet acting. (Wright's..."

Nov. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Last Days of Chez Nous

"...wanders through this story as if he hasn't a clue as to what he's doing here. Though he's been..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Match Factory Girl

With not even 70 minutes total running time and, seemingly, not more than two dozen total lines of dialogue, The Match Factory Girl spins a compelling narrative, a devastating cultural portrait, and an object lesson in the less-is-more school of storytelling.

"...epic action pictures.” Aside from giving us an amusing clue to his moral and aesthetic reference points, it is..."

April 2, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Street Knight

"...the situations in the film. Speakman doesn't have a clue. I don't mean to rave on about Norris. It's..."

March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Highway 61

"...shame that McDonald and writer/lead McKellar give us little clue as to what they're after here, because their film..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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