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A plot to blow Hitler up goes wrong

"...obviously failed, and Elser was immediately caught trying to cross over into Switzerland. Unwisely, his pockets were still laden..."

July 28, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dunkirk

A harrowing new World War II classic

"...war – Hitler’s army and Luftwaffe blitzkrieged their way across Belgium and France in a matter of days with..."

July 21, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monster Trucks

Boy meets monster, adventure ensues

"...What do you get when you cross an antediluvian giant squid with a dilapidated pickup truck?..."

Jan. 20, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Innocents

Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues

"...assistance of Mathilde (de Laâge), a young French Red Cross intern who agrees to secretly treat the expectant mothers,..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Finding Dory

If only Dory had ruby slippers, she could click her heels and be home

"...his son Nemo (Rolence); in this film, the three cross the ocean in search of Dory’s long-lost parents. It..."

June 17, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Divergent Series: Allegiant

The penultimate installment in this YA series arrives with a thud

"...Part 2 when Tris gets nailed to the proverbial cross. Can’t wait to see what her hair looks like..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Midnight Special

Is a boy with special gifts a savior or a weapon – or neither?

"...good playing against Bill Murray in St. Vincent) sitting cross-legged under a blanket reading a comic book by flashlight..."

March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Program A

Let the voting begin

"...Garmai Sumo as she, along with her fellow Red Cross workers, remove dead bodies at the height of an..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentaries – Programs A & B

"...12” follows Garmai Sumo as she and fellow Red Cross workers remove dead bodies at the height of an..."

Feb. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Last Witch Hunter

The Last Witch Hunter? Promises, promises.

"...as it’s called in the film, the Axe and Cross. Filled with cardboard characterizations from otherwise excellent actors –..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fantastic Four

Marvel not at this Fox flop

"...Joltin’ Jack Kirby’s classic superheroes plays like some misguided cross between an Eighties Afterschool Special and a failed WB..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Amira & Sam

Cross-cultural love between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi girl flourishes in the Big Apple.

"...and co-produced – is a relatively slight slice of cross-cultural love in the Big Apple, it more than makes..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dumb and Dumber To

They're ba-ack!!!

"...in which a missing suitcase gives rise to a cross-country trip. This time, the guys embark on a journey..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

Touching documentary captures Campbell's final tour, which is made more poignant and brave because of the musician's worsening Alzheimer's.

"...This documentary about the final concert tour of country-music crossover legend Glen Campbell that was undertaken while the singer-songwriter..."

Nov. 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Before You Know It

There's an aging LGBT community that is only getting bigger and older, and this documentary investigates that process – in ways both specific and universal.

"...begins to explore his sexuality and desire to publicly cross-dress with the determination of someone busting out of the..."

June 20, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Borgman

This Dutch film is a darkly nuanced fable that keeps us consistently off-balance.

"...with the surreal sequence of Borgman (Bijvoet) – a cross between Rasputin and Jean Renoir’s Boudu – fleeing his..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

The Signal

A trio of tech-savvy twentysomethings get waylaid and wind up as subjects in a weird but stylish sci-fi mystery.

"...and Jonah (Thwaites, Cooke, and Knapp) – allow a cross-country trip to get waylaid by the provocations of a..."

June 13, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

On My Way

In this road movie, Catherine Deneuve plays a Frenchwoman having an existential crisis on wheels.

"...of cigarettes, and ends up flooring it on a cross-country odyssey...."

May 2, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Nymphomaniac: Volume 1

Lars von Trier's latest provocation is more meditation than outright flagellation.

"...recounts to him the increasingly seedy stations of her cross to bear. Fixated first on adolescent masturbation and then..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club

Tyler Perry makes a comedy about single mothers who don't get enough credit.

"...single moms have it tough, and that their difficulties cross all racial and socio-economic divisions. Perry’s films are also..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Need for Speed

Somewhat fast but seldom furious, this is an adrenaline junkie’s wet dream that stars Aaron Paul.

"...competition, Keaton alternately channels Wolfman Jack and Beetlejuice.) The cross-country trip that precedes the big race is the film’s..."

March 14, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Narco Cultura

This documentary about the Mexican drug wars and their relationship to populist narcocorrido music becomes a fascinating study of the cultural cycle of violence.

"...so. No wonder the working class is desperate to cross over into the U.S., even at tremendous personal (and..."

Dec. 6, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

Johnny Knoxville unleashes jackassery on unsuspecting bystanders while dressed as 86-year-old Irving Zisman and accompanied by his equally brazen 8-year-old grandson.

"...been tasked with driving his grandson Billy (Jackson Nicoll) cross-country for delivery to the boy’s deadbeat dad. Using hidden-camera..."

Oct. 25, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Parkland

The events surrounding the assasination of JFK are witnessed through the eyes of those who were there in this made-in-Austin film.

"...The film cross-cuts among all these figures as it progresses. Little is..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Blue Jasmine

Class difference and life's shambles are on Woody Allen's mind as he leads Cate Blanchett through a perfectly calibrated performance as a Park Avenue matron brought low by modern finance.

"...to prison, Jasmine decamps to Brooklyn (horrors!) before moving cross-country to crash with her sister Ginger (Hawkins) in San..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mud

Hypermasculine yet soulfully romantic, this coming of age story with thriller elements stars Matthew McConaughey.

"...small stretch of land in his boots with nails cross-hatched on the bottom to “ward off evil spirits.” Mud..."

April 26, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Guilt Trip

Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen are a mother and son on a road trip but the humor's mostly on autopilot.

"...Andy Brewster (Rogen) is about to start on a cross-country road trip to pitch his new product – a..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Movie Review by Louis Black

From the Vaults: James Patterson on Film

Reviews of 'Alex Cross,' 'Along Came a Spider,' and 'Kiss the Girls'

"...transposition to film. In reviewing the new film Alex Cross, Marc Savlov says: "It’s a mess, really, but a..."

Oct. 19, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Haywire

A technically exemplary but otherwise unremarkable piece of fisticuffs filmmaking.

"...finds herself the victim of a double- (possibly triple-) cross after a rescue mission in Barcelona goes … well,..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Magic Trip

This doc about Ken Kesey's famed bus goes all over the place but never seems to end up anywhere all that revelatory.

"...reconstitute Kesey and his Merry Band of Pranksters' seminal, cross-country bus trip in 1964. "We weren't old enough to..."

Sept. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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