Red 2

No wonder Bruce Willis has become the king of the sequels: He reliably delivers more of whatever it is we liked the last time.

"...black-ops agent Frank Moses, trying to go straight but forever being pulled back into the game by nefarious forces...."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Only God Forgives

Drive's Nicolas Winding Refn reunites again with Ryan Gosling and adds Kristin Scott Thomas to the mix for this descent into heartlessness.

"...concludes, only its scuzziness remains. This artistic misfire will forever be knocking on heaven’s door...."

July 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hangover: Part III

The hard-R comedy trilogy concludes with more mortal peril and questionable taste.

"...the idiot glue in the series’ quartet of friends forever finding themselves in mortal peril – but it also..."

May 24, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dead Man Down

Noomi Rapace, the original Lisbeth Salander, reunites with her The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director for this NYC gangland thriller starring Colin Farrell.

"...it isn't revealing too much to say that the forever-underused Colin Farrell is the best thing about this sorely..."

March 15, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Turns Out the Title Wasn't Prophetic

The curious staying power of so-called lost film 'Nothing Lasts Forever'

"...found its way into Schiller's 1984 film Nothing Lasts Forever, which, fittingly enough, follows the journey of a young..."

Dec. 21, 2012 Screens Feature by Ashley Moreno

Former 'SNL' Writer Tom Schiller on His TV Roots

'Nothing Lasts Forever' director recalls his favorite sketches

"...writer Tom Schiller about his 1984 film, Nothing Lasts Forever, which was never released despite appearances by SNL stars..."

Dec. 20, 2012 Screens Post by Ashley Moreno

The Man With the Iron Fists

Wu-Tang Clan firebrand RZA branches out into directing a martial arts film.

"...is the Blacksmith, a badass tradesman beholden to the forever-warring clans of 19th century bad-guy backwater, Jungle City. He’s..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hotel Transylvania

There's no need to put a stake in the heart of this animated film full of familiar monsters; it's already deadly dull.

"...way to keep the antsy Mavis under his wing forever. When Jonathan (Samberg), a lost human backpacker stumbles stonily..."

Sept. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Reunion

Thirteen years after American Pie jump-started sexual innuendo for a new generation, this sequel is the best one in the series.

"...Thirteen years after the Weitz brothers forever defiled the great American apple pie with sexual innuendo..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Skateland

Skateland is a sweet, knowing, visually spot-on evocation of early-Eighties teen life in a small East Texas town.

"...titular hangout, and he'd be happy to stay there forever. But, you know, life has other plans, girlfriend trouble..."

May 20, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dhobi Ghat

The lives of four people in Mumbai intersect in this Bollywood film, and are forever changed.

"...in Mumbai intersect in this Bollywood film and are forever changed. In Hindi...."

Jan. 21, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ajami

This Oscar-nominated Israeli film reveals not only the divides between Jews and Arabs, but also those between Muslims and Christians, young and old, men and women, and rich and poor.

"...on the virulent pathology of violence that has been forever endemic to the Holy Land. Working with a battalion..."

April 23, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Runaways

A grittily femme perspective governs this otherwise conventional music saga about the Runaways, America's first all-girl rock band.

"...primal mover/shaker Kim Fowley (Shannon), the crazy-like-a-fox pop-musical madman forever scheming behind the scenes. Situated nearer to the historical..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

This collegiate coming-of-age comedy is about as exciting as near-beer.

"...His 11th-hour epiphany (you can't be a total jerkwad forever, apparently) is as lame as a near-beer drinking binge...."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Rust never sleeps, and metal never dies in this doc about the band Anvil.

"...14-year-old best friends making a pact to rock together forever...."

Sept. 18, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Public Enemies

Michael Mann's film is a human-scale biopic of the gangster folk hero John Dillinger.

"...assure his girlfriend that, well, he's going to live forever. It's a crucial moment in the film's trajectory, but..."

July 3, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Dance Flick

The next generation of the Wayans clan delivers one more spoof – this time of dance movies.

"...Sedaris. While Dance Flick’s abiding comedic principle has a forever-young quality to it (to sum up: You can’t go..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

State of Play

Starring Russell Crowe, this American redo of a great BBC miniseries about investigative journalism and nefarious institutions neither embarrasses the original nor is superior to it in any way.

"...of the film. Affleck, who already has a facile, forever-frat quality to him (I'd wager it's part of his..."

April 17, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

What We Do Is Secret

Darby Crash, the L.A. punk rock junkie godhead leader of the Germs who died of an overdose in 1980, is revivified in this long-gestating but strangely sterile biopic.

"...Such is the stuff of great drama, and this forever-gestating (20 years, give or take) Crash/Germs biopic has been..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wedding Weekend

This earnest, well-acted ensemble film is a seriocomic meditation on what it means to be an American male approaching the dreaded four-oh.

"...of course, all involved would much rather remain 19 forever. Fluctuating wildly between surprisingly honest, unforced moments of male..."

May 30, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shutter

Shutter is a shabby American remake of a Thai movie about a couple who sees mysterious images in photographs.

"...the annoying blond highlights of Taylor, ex-Transformers babe and forever, as the Thai say, farang. New rule: No more..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stop-Loss

A real-world fuse burns throughout the military drama of Stop-Loss, the Austin-lensed film by Boys Don't Cry's Kimberley Peirce that stars Ryan Phillippe.

"...with a potentially sympathetic senator. The road goes on forever, but somehow the party never starts. Phillippe does a..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel is brought faithfully to the screen, although the melodramatics of the story's latter section undercuts the poetic drama of the first half.

"...effectively set up the tragic turn of events that forever separates the two, both in the physical and the..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Into the Wild

Sean Penn adapts Jon Krakauer's bestselling mystery adventure to the screen with frequently stunning but ultimately unsatisfactory results.

"...life and solitary death of Christopher McCandless would remain forever unknowable. Unfortunately, an unknowable character makes for a stubborn..."

Oct. 19, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Live Free or Die Hard

As John McClane, Bruce Willis once more brings the noise and blows the bejesus out of the bad guys.

"...Smith. There's something enormously comforting about watching Willis' smoldering, forever put-upon NYPD Detective John McClane as he once more..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Zodiac

The director of Fight Club and Se7en switches gears here from psychological thrillers to something that more closely resembles a police procedural.

"...primary focus on the four men whose lives were forever altered by their pursuit of the Zodiac’s identity: two..."

March 2, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

The literal and figurative institutionalization of Austin music and art legend Daniel Johnston is analyzed from many angles in this perceptive film profile.

"...in The Devil and Daniel Johnston, the once and forever Austin musical phenomenon is compared – and in some..."

May 5, 2006 Movie Review by Raoul Hernandez

Friends With Money

Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, kids, mortgages, and so-called life plans? That’s the short list of differences between the depressed, single stoner, played by Jennifer Aniston, and her circle of female friends.

"...Friends With Money follows the three couples and Olivia, forever the seventh wheel, as they navigate middle age in..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ice Age: The Meltdown

An exercise in the superfluous, this sequel lacks the original film’s geniality – and all of its pro-environment stumping.

"...director, Chris Wedge) returns, too, as a half-squirrel/half-rat concoction forever foiled in his bid to reclaim an acorn, and..."

March 31, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Jarhead

Though lacking a clear point of view, the film seems to say that war not only dehumanizes soldiers but also infantilizes them. It’s not a pretty picture, but it is a lovely film.

"...movie that portrays Our Boys as either tentative heroes, forever on the cusp but never quite allowed to achieve..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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