When Did You Last See Your Father?

Based on British poet Blake Morrison’s written memoir, this film is a very particular yet universal story about the eternal knot between fathers and sons.

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint

This is an old-school heroic drama from Bhutan about an 11th century Tibetan saint whose tale begins with greed and vengeance.

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Slow Burn

Slow Burn – starring Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, and Mekhi Phifer – becomes one of those movies that’s so bad, it’s almost entertaining. Almost.

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Tears of the Black Tiger

This Thai film is part melodrama and part spaghetti western, as if Sirk and Peckinpah fell into a blender and out poured tear-soaked Polaroids, giant exploding squibs and blown-up heads, tearful Asian songbird ballads, and homoerotic outlaw bonding.

Feb. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Thr3e

A Christian psychological horror thriller based on a novel by bestselling Christian author Ted Dekker, Thr3e nevertheless adopts the extreme-horror tactics currently in vogue in movies such as the Saw continuum.

Jan. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Black Christmas

Although this horror remake isn't as suspenseful or emotionally draining as its influential 1974 predecessor, the film almost makes up for that with its overriding weirdness.

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Haven

Lacking purpose or thoughtful complexity, Frank E. Flowers' film, starring Orlando Bloom and Bill Paxton, is an overly ambitious mess.

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Barnyard: The Original Party Animals

Yet another computer-animated film about talking animals offers a fine message for the kids, but little originality.

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

This story of a young man in search of Mr. Right has a certain scrappy underdog charm but doesn’t flout any aspects of the romantic-comedy formula.

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Cars

Muscling for rank in the crowded box-office speedway, this Pixar contender takes an early lead but loses momentum in the middle third.

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Tsotsi

Winner of the 2005 Best Foreign Language Oscar, this South African entry is a harsh but ultimately redemptive tale of a young gang leader who lives in a Johannesburg shantytown.

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The War Within

This fiction film, in which the lead character is but one cog in a plot to detonate a series of bombs in New York City, portrays a terrorist’s point of view in a jarringly matter-of-fact manner.

Oct. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Proof

As with many film adaptations of stage successes, David Auburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about mathematics and madness loses something in its translation to celluloid.

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Echoes of Innocence

Earnest and well-intentioned Dallas-based cast and crew have created a puzzling and inauthentic youth drama that promotes teenage sexual abstinence.

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Constant Gardener

City of God director Fernando Meirelles makes his English-language debut with this bracing, heartbreaking conspiracy thriller set in AIDS-ravaged Kenya.

Sept. 2, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Don't Move

Italian story of a surgeon who falls in love with a country girl (Penélope Cruz), flirts with the self-pitying mindset of the slumming elite, and becomes something of an apology for bourgeois classism.

June 3, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Elektra

Watching Jennifer Garner as Elektra turn somersaults over her foes in her drop-dead-sexy assassin’s gear isn’t nearly as invigorating as it ought to be.

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rosenstrasse

Von Trotta puts a human face on 1943's Rosenstrasse uprising, one of the few public, and moreover, successful citizen protests against the power of the Nazi regime.

Dec. 10, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Kinsey

Kinsey enshrines the scientist at the expense of a more rigorous and more profound scrutiny.

Nov. 26, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wicker Park

Paul McGuigan pulls out all the stops on his Wurlitzter Organ of Incessant Camera Trickery to muddy the waters of rationality in this bizarre remake of a fine French thriller.

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

The boy wizard rides again and this outing proves zippier and spookier than the previous two.

June 4, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Man on Fire

Denzel Washington heads up a pulsating kidnapping thriller.

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Passion of the Christ

So the difference between this and a snuff film is … ?

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Barbershop 2: Back in Business

The franchise is back in business, though this time the project has a more calculated feel.

Feb. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bubba Ho-Tep

Elvis Presley and JFK (played brilliantly by Campbell and Davis) fight a soul-sucking mummy in this twisted sci-fi horror film loaded with generous chunks of cheese.

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Melvin Goes to Dinner

July 11, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hunted

March 21, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Willard

March 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Antwone Fisher

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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