Ice Age: Continental Drift

Amusing but never rousing, this fourth installment in this cartoon franchise comes fretted with freezer burn.

"...Manny, Sid, and Diego from their herd, setting them adrift at sea, they must claw their way back to..."

July 13, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Drift Toward a Perfect Coffee Experience

New biannual magazine is a java junkie’s dream come true

"...Drift magazine knows. Drift magazine tells you...."

July 27, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Racing junkies would be better off browsing the many online drifting videos in which the camera doesn't cut and the people don't speak.

"...inconsequential; the film's focus is racing and, more specifically, drifting, a technique that involves fishtailing around sharp corners or,..."

June 16, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

Your Marxist Drift Into Neo-Leftist Class Envy – A Heavy Thinker Weighs In

"...Bush administration's so called profligacy, you reveal your Marxist drift into neo-leftist class envy. We must ensure that our..."

Feb. 27, 2006 Postmarks

Page Two: Slow Drift

The eternal winter of our discontent

Oct. 2, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Conservatives Drift to Straus

Last remaining Craddick supporters accepting the inevitable

Jan. 8, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Continental Drift

Scenes from the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival

Sept. 19, 2008 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pacific Rim

When monsters and robots engage in epic battle, puny humans huddle in movie theatres to pay respect.

"...any hints from me, you already know if you’re “drift compatible” (to use the film’s terminology) with Pacific Rim..."

July 12, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Something something family something. The unkillable franchise lumbers on.

"...characters are never subtracted, only added, and their inevitable drift toward broad heroism often dulls any sharp edges they..."

Aug. 2, 2019 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

The Academy's five favorite animated shorts, plus two ringers

"...main character, Emily, whose age-related dementia causes her to drift back in time. A biscuit falls in her tea..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mustang Island

A deft millennial comedy of manners

"...break in and set up camp. Now aimless, they drift along eating and drinking. Eventually, a waitress named Lee..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Croods

Animated cave dwellers are stealth charmers.

"...enough, with the Earth fracturing around them in a continental-drift doomsday scenario, the whole clan is forced to leave..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Maddowpalooza

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow brings political (un)convention to SXSW

"...Rachel Maddow's appearance at SXSW, while billed as a..."

March 11, 2013 SXSW Post by Kate X Messer

Drive Angry

Nicolas Cage plays a parent on a mission to avenge the murder of his daughter and granddaughter.

"...with this retro drive-in also-ran. Cage continues his Tokyo drift into mid-career mediocrity with this decidedly bottom half of..."

March 4, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Food, Inc.

Documentary lifts the veil on our nation's food industry.

"...but you don’t need the pictures to get the drift here, which is, more or less, that the American..."

June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Fast & Furious

This third franchise sequel doesn't have as much smarts as speed, but it's still an uncomplicated, undemanding lark.

"...or less stand-alone The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Nothing here hews remotely close to reality: certainly not..."

April 3, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

The fascinating documentary explores the overlooked career of this influential yet enigmatic music legend.

"...in the studio recording 2006's critically acclaimed head-scratcher The Drift and creating his singular sound through such means as..."

March 27, 2009 Movie Review by Audra Schroeder

The Love Guru

Is it redundant to mock self-help culture? Not if you're Mike Myers and have a new sketch-comedy character to introduce.

"...real girl): the better to ensure that audiences don’t drift away and lose the thread of hilarity. In the..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The World

Using a sleek visual style and bits of animation, this elegant Chinese film explores the effects of modernism, globalism, and international commerce upon its culture and society.

"...lyrical story, grazing the city’s criminal underbelly while they drift together and apart as lovers, and director Jia (2002’s..."

Jan. 13, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Three ... Extremes

This lush and horrific anthology film from three of the finest craftsmen working today – Fruit Chan, Chan-wook Park, and Takashi Miike – is an instantly memorable and squirm-inducing assemblage.

"...an adolescent acrobatic duo suffers from an odd, experimental drift that distracts from the film’s eerie charms. That said,..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

8 Mile

Eminen's semi-autobiographical story of a young, white rapper on the rise in Detroit has a soft-focus Hollywood tint.

"...neither is it a bomb, if you get my drift. Rapper Emimen's film debut is, most notably, much better..."

Nov. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Spy

"...programming that has all the raging excitement of continental drift. It's a buddy movie with zero chemistry between its..."

Nov. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

3 Strikes

"...But by the point you might be ready to drift away, the excessiveness of the foul language bombards the..."

March 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sudden Manhattan

"...fun and a bit thrilling, actually, to watch her drift through her film, huge eyes staring out of her..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Heroic Trio II: The Executioners

"...got subplots galore which, unfortunately, crowd out the main drift of the story and make for a confusing 90..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

"...since Look Who's Talking Now,” if you get my drift and I think you do. Crystal and the gang..."

June 17, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Calendar

"...recorder of it. He refuses and watches his wife drift away from him, toward the land and culture of..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Romper Stomper

"...of charm and humanity: if not for the wayward drift of their cause, this motley group of super-patriots would..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slacker

Slacker's perception of our city's subcultures shows them not to be so marginal after all.

"...so apropos to the themes of disconnectedness and cultural drift. No plot, no major characters, no suspense: just fleeting..."

July 5, 1991 Movie Review by Chris Walters

From the Vaults: Wandaful, Wandaful

Wanda Sykes' Granny stands out in "Ice Age: Continental Drift"

"...Ice Age Continental Drift, the fourth go-round for this animation franchise, has met..."

July 13, 2012 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10     NEXT ›    16 »