Alice in Wonderland

Sadly, the mirth-to-muck ratio in Tim Burton's new film is deeply imbalanced.

"...Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway and Crispin Glover. Long gone is Lewis Carroll’s nonsensical idyll: In this topsy-turvy take,..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Miss Potter

This Renée Zelweger movie about the life of Peter Rabbit author Beatrix Potter lacks dramatic tension and a sense of purpose.

"...a modest, delicately illustrated children's book that has since gone on to sell more than 40 million copies worldwide...."

March 9, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Wicker Man

Notorious director Neil LaBute's well-intentioned but inadvertently silly film starring Nicolas Cage replaces the vague, sinister paganism of the original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire.

"...the original with a creepy infusion of earth-mother estrogen gone haywire. Anyone who thinks the world might be a..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inside Man

Although with Denzel, Jodie, and Clive in tow it would be difficult to go wrong, Spike Lee and screenwriter Russell Gewirtz have created a truly original film from various shopworn genre clichés.

"...among them, the New York City bank heist/hostage standoff gone awry. As with all of Lee's films, there's much..."

March 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

S.W.A.T.

"...before. Trite and violent (television historian Alex McNeil has gone so far as to describe it as "generally criticized..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joy Ride

"...in your new '71 Chrysler Newport with your best girl on one side and your hooligan brother on the..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Psycho Beach Party

This campy send-up of surf and slasher movies uses Gidget movies as its comic template.

"...1962, Psycho Beach Party throws together a wannabe surfer girl named Chicklet (Ambrose); the B-actress star of such movies..."

Sept. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fun

"...a harrowing glimpse into the world of desperate friendship gone horribly awry. Bonnie and Hillary (Witt and Humphrey) are..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clean, Shaven

"...skin -- they're the sounds of a mind that's gone unhinged. In his startling, if somewhat uneven, directorial debut,..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mamma Roma

In this early Pasolini film marked by the director's sumptuous neo-realism, Magnani plays a middle-aged prostitute who retires from the trade to become a full-time mother to her 16-year-old son.

"...instantly: Ettore begins hanging out with the local bad girl, his friends try to talk him into petty theft..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Monkey Trouble

"...typical of the care and thoughtful execution that has gone into this movie. The story is pretty simple, though..."

March 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Boy Who Cried Bitch

"...less) with fellow patient Jessica (Moira Kelly), a young girl plagued with neuroses. As the psychiatrists at the hospital..."

March 27, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I'd Much Rather Be With the Girls

What a box set should be:'One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found'

"...heartache of young love like a heavenly choir of girls' angel voices. One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl..."

Dec. 9, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Marc Savlov's Top 10 List

"...3) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Speaking of lovelorn nosferatu..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Sweetest Thing

"...and one-track-minded as men. How's that for progress? Golden girl Diaz stars as hyperactive ad exec and sexual predator..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Susanna Kaysen Lays It on the Line

The Camera My Mother Gave Me, by Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, is a memoir that has nothing to do with either the author's camera or her mother, Marion Winik writes. It is about her vagina. It is the chronicle of a mysterious and intractable medical problem she had with this little-discussed part of the body, and of the interesting experiences she endured in what I think of as Patient-World, the alternate reality inhabited by those of us who have something wrong with our bodies.

"...have been waiting for more from this writer since Girl, Interrupted will not be disappointed. Kaysen's deadpan, ironic, stripped-down..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Books Feature by Marion Winik

Little Women

Relish the contemporary touches in this new version of Alcott’s classic

"...a linear fashion the tale of the four March girls of Concord, Mass. – pretty and practical Meg (Watson),..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

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

"...and Bobby Pontillas’ “One Small Step” presents a Chinese-American girl whose maturation can be tracked by her treatment of..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

American Assassin

The bestselling series hits the screen

"...fighter. The opening scene shows Mitch proposing to his girlfriend Katrina in the waves of an Ibiza beach, but..."

Sept. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Snatched

A mother/daughter vacation from hell

"...The mother and daughter in the vacation-gone-wrong comedy Snatched­­ – a title chosen, no doubt, for..."

May 12, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Top Books to Inspire Hope Amidst Change

Jessi Cape's top reads of 2016 helped ground her during a roller-coaster year

"...is local writer Amy Gentry's fantastic debut, Good as Gone: A Novel of Suspense (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Immediately ushered..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jessi Cape

A Winter Rose

A star is born (again)

"...told) talented fuck-up, the thorny Winter Rose (Whalen). The girl is perfect for the job. She’s an orphaned, whiskey-chugging..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Boss

This Melissa McCarthy comedy is funny, but should be even funnier

"...crude. To be honest, the crude humor isn’t really gone, though it’s more focused than in some of her..."

April 8, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Like to Watch

Bringing The Thomas Crown Affair to Shondaland

"...would ever laugh at her in that moment: a crowdsourced "Oh girl," rather. A comforting, shared anxiety for her...."

March 18, 2016 Screens Column by Jacob Clifton

The 33

Antonio Banderas stars in this story about the trapped Chilean miners

"...is almost tantamount to admitting defeat from the get-go. Gone is the suspense regarding the event’s outcome, as well..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beautiful Creatures

She's a witch, he's a mortal, and they both read Charles Bukowski: Some teens will never make it to heaven.

"...easy charm sustains his popularity. Ethan dreams of a girl whom he’s never met, and then one day she..."

Feb. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Living an almost feral existence on a wild, low-lying area of the Louisiana coast known as the Bathtub, young Hushpuppy narrates her own vivid life story.

"...the center of it stands firm a fierce little girl with a will of iron and the lyrical imagination..."

July 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Virginity Hit

This faux documentary chronicles the efforts of a 17-year-old kid to lose his virginity.

"...by affluent, indulgent, mostly absent parents and by nonspeaking girl groupies who are unaccountably adoring of these jerks. Significantly,..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Lords of Dogtown

This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.

"...never feels remotely like a Hollywood version of youth gone wild. If anything, it’s closer to Jonathan Kaplan’s gritty..."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girls Will Be Girls

Valley of the Dolls meets Female Trouble in this all-male semimusical romp.

"...roommate, Coco (Leupp, as a horsy Paula Prentiss-type "good girl") longs for marriage to the doctor (Gould) who performed..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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