Derailed

The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is this thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages our sympathies.

"...nothing altogether pleasant. Owen is the best thing about Derailed, which is saying quite a bit considering the company..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fun Size

Broad-stroked but often funny, this is a teen tale of a Halloween night that doesn't go according to plan.

"...Wren’s plans for unwinding at a Halloween party are derailed by a last-minute babysitting detail, and the straightforwardness of..."

Oct. 26, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Knives Out

Cunning if slight murder mystery revives the whodunit

"...progeny indignantly clamor after learning the gravy train has derailed, the collective avarice displayed by the secondary cast of..."

Nov. 29, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Maggie's Plan

Greta Gerwig delights in this NYC-set screwball romantic comedy

"...suspect, at least in Brooklyn). But Maggie’s plan gets derailed when chance – or is it fate? – puts..."

June 10, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Digging for Fire

Joe Swanberg's latest adds some flourish to his usual marital themes

"...with an old friend. Both of their plans are derailed. When her friend bails on their night out, Lee..."

Aug. 28, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger's Movie

This documentary, co-directed by the film's subject, is both the realization of a lifelong dream and an intriguing, if incomplete, portal into the way the subject's brain works.

"...diagnoses – helpfully detailed in the film’s title – derailed him. Eight years at an institution followed a nervous..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Unstoppable

Denzel Washington stops a runaway train loaded with toxic cargo.

"...and the like, but in the end Unstoppable is derailed by its own one-track premise...."

Nov. 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Class

There's no climactic rendering of "To Sir With Love" in this French classroom drama, just pedagogy in action, exquisitely observed.

"...while students can find their hopes for academic progress derailed by distractibility, inattention, self-disciplinary deficiencies, and lowered expectations. This..."

March 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

1408

Even though 1408 is one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever, this movie belongs to star John Cusack and director Mikael Håfström all the way.

"...the credit. 1408 is Cusack and Swedish-born director Håfström’s (Derailed) movie all the way. Sure, the fact that Cusack..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gay Sex in the 70s

Little more than a series of interviews with those who survived those times, interspersed with titillating soft-core clips from the archives, this documentary offers a sympathetic perspective of the post-Stonewall sexual liberation years in New York City.

"...behavior had its consequences – a heretofore unknown virus derailed the sexual revolution for both gay and straight alike..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Steve Davis

One True Thing

"...a successful, young investigative journalist whose career is temporarily derailed by her mother's battle with cancer and her father's..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Misericordia

Repressed desire and a heinous crime in small-town France

"...After all, the frisson of yearning has been derailed by a crime most heinous, and the once-arrogant Jérémie..."

April 11, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Thelma

A nonagenarian seeks revenge after being scammed

"...understatement. Thelma’s initial attempts to find help have been derailed by time (hard to get the gang back together..."

June 21, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The People’s Joker

Trans coming-of-age story filtered through superhero homage

"...célèbre after Warner Bros. sent a letter that briefly derailed its 2022 festival run and led to a light..."

April 12, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Living

Bill Nighy explores the inner desperation of a very proper Englishman

"...sure nothing gets done. His repetitive, faded life is derailed by a terminal diagnosis, although even his doctor won't..."

Jan. 27, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

She Said

The journalistic investigation of Harvey Weinstein gets the rage but not the tension

"...Weinstein, those whose lives were disrupted and careers were derailed by his harassment and assault. That’s where the film..."

Nov. 18, 2022 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jaaneman

Telugu comedy about a catastrophic birthday party

"...man's attempts to turn around his sad life are derailed by the untimely death of his neighbor...."

Dec. 10, 2021 Movie Review

Coming Home in the Dark

Brutal New Zealand revenge drama asks if monsters are made or just accidents

"...with Mandrake and Tubs ensure that their plans are derailed beyond any repair, shattered, but it's not just physical...."

Oct. 1, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Soul

Pixar's jazzy trip to the afterlife mixes kid-friendly hijinks with metaphysical angst

"...as it launches Christmas Day on Disney+ after COVID-19 derailed plans for a theatrical release. Soul is not the..."

Dec. 25, 2020 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Opinion: Even Post-COVID, A-F School Ranking System Should Get an F

We should take this moment to evaluate the utility of the A-F system as a whole, as it does not sufficiently capture the nuance of the work being done in our schools

"...as minoritized students can have their high school careers derailed by punitively negative grades, so can the schools serving..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Column by Rolf Straubhaar

You Don't Nomi

Should you re-assess Showgirls? No, but that's not what's happening here?

"...a chance to catch some celebrity T&A. Careers were derailed, and the erotic thriller that was supposed to turn..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Becky

Because sometimes you just have to deal with a few neo-Nazis the old-fashioned way

"...side), their plan to extract a mysterious McGuffin is derailed by a teenager. Becky (Wilson) goes full First Blood..."

June 5, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Emma.

Anya Taylor-Joy gives Austen’s priggish heroine the spark she deserves

"...to make amends. The failure to grasp that has derailed so many recent adaptations; it’s why I personally loathe..."

Feb. 28, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Invisible Life

Brazilian drama divides sisters from each other

"...the one she wished for. Guida’s destiny is similarly derailed but in a different fashion...."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

In Fabric

Marianne Jean-Baptiste says yes yes yessss to the dress

"...while even the prim and eerie Miss Luckmoore gets derailed in her own predilections...."

Dec. 6, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ready or Not

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

"...supernatural road-trip collection Southbound, but all that potential seemed derailed by the underwhelming Devil's Due in 2014. Ever since..."

Aug. 23, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Loft

Five married men share a penthouse loft in which an unidentified woman turns up dead.

"...of tawdry potboiler, joining the forgettable ranks of 2005’s Derailed and 2008’s Deception as yet another underwhelming one-night stand...."

Feb. 6, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

Unraveling Shakespeare's Life

Dr. James Shapiro tackles the Bard one slice at a time

"...So it's like a train in a sense getting derailed. I felt like once these biographers made these guesses..."

March 23, 2012 Books Post by Robert Faires

MacGruber

Here's an idea that hasn't been tried in a few years: Turn a Saturday Night Live skit into a feature film.

"...MacGruber's attempts to dismantle ticking bombs were always comically derailed by such personal crises as his racial insensitivity or..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Tooth Fairy

Due to a misdeed, a tough hockey player, played by Dwayne Johnson, must serve as a tooth fairy for a week, tutu and all.

"...from his competitors. His own hopes for going pro derailed by an injury, Derek is in the habit of..."

Jan. 29, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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