The Best of Enemies

Unlikely alliances grow as conversation finds common ground in this historical true-life drama

"...story of how Klan stronghold Durham was finally dragged kicking and screaming into line with other proudly Southern cities..."

April 5, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spy

The Paul Feig/Melissa McCarthy comedy onslaught continues with a Bond parody

"...from a frumpy, lovesick Langley-basement operative into a full-fledged, ass-kicking, world-saving icon of full-figured female empowerment, with chuckles galore...."

June 5, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mortdecai

Johnny Depp fails to unleash his inner Peter Sellers in this globetrotting spy comedy.

"...all more or less playing straight to his silly, high-kicking, show pony act. Only Bettany, scarred up like a..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Romeo & Juliet

Till death do us part …

"...I know this thing’s been kicking almost half a millennium, but is it too much..."

Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Battlefield America

It's You Got Served for a younger dance generation.

"...1976 tweens-as-gangsters misfire Bugsy Malone, only with preadolescent dancers kicking and splitting their way through Long Beach, Calif.'s (apparently)..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Red Tails

George Lucas exec produced – and bankrolled – this action/drama about the historic Tuskegee Airmen.

"...13-year-old boy (or if your inner one is still kicking), then the magnificently choreographed aerial battles in Red Tails..."

Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Of Gods and Men

This Cannes Grand Prix winner is a spellbinding tale of Trappist monks amid Algerian civil chaos and finding purpose in faith.

"...goes unpunished, however, and soon enough Kalashnikov-wielding thugs are kicking up a fuss, demanding painkillers and medical aid for..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ip Man 2: Legend of the Grandmaster

This sequel is a model of the martial arts movie form.

"...he schools overeager youths in the finer points of kicking ass. Hong Kong is under the thumb of sanctimonious..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

It's Kind of a Funny Story

When a 15-year-old overachiever checks himself into a mental ward, he learns to affirm the good things in life without ever whitewashing the bad.

"...with stillness. It’s a neat contrast to the voices kicking around the frazzled head of 15-year-old overachiever Craig (Gilchrist)...."

Oct. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Taken

Call it the last cinematic gasp of the Bush era.

"...straight through that berth and get away with it, kicking feeble notions such as plausibility and morality out the..."

Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Girls Rock!

"How do you teach a teenage girl how to like herself?" is the key question that drives Portland, Ore.'s Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, as well as this documentary survey of the experience.

"...rock camp isn't just a five-day immersion in rock & roll; it's also a crash course in confidence, self-respect,..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Taking You to Ninja School

Seven reasons why Naruto is kicking everybody's ass

"...mention that up front, so the ass that he's kicking is mostly abstract. He's the protagonist of Masashi Kishimoto's..."

June 1, 2007 Screens Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Flushed Away

Flushed Away has a wicked, smart, and subtle sense of humor, and unlike so many kids movies these days, its characters are living, breathing parts of a small ecosystem.

"...that also produced Chicken Run and the ingenious Wallace & Gromit films) revels in its British-ness – it’s full..."

Nov. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Ray

Ray Charles, we can't stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.

"...seem like the movie’s almost fairy-tale episode of Charles kicking heroin is the real end of this story: It’s..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Don't Live Here Anymore

What people fight about when they fight about love.

"...messing around with Hank in his absence, kickstarting another screaming match (and it’s a testament to the inherent likeableness..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Austin @ Large: Vote, With Your Feet

This week's elections set the stage for years of citizen butt-kicking to come

"...executive leadership to replace the departed and unmourned Richard Fonté. Candidates like our endorsees Jeffrey Richard and Guadalupe Sosa..."

May 14, 2004 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

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.

"...growth). So is JFK (Davis), who’s been alive and kicking since 1963, only he’s black (the CIA dyed him,..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

X2: X-Men United

"...and long-running series about mutant superhumans living, loving, and kicking some righteous bad-guy booty when they’re not schooling or..."

May 2, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Quiet American

"...out a story. Whether it’s his journalistic instincts finally kicking back into gear or the fear of losing Phuong,..."

Feb. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spider-Man

"...feels like it's holding back when it should be kicking out the proverbial jams. Still, there's a real joy..."

May 10, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Knock Off

"...as it becomes all but impossible to tell who's kicking whose asses -- or indeed what specific blurrily photographed..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Dragon Chronicles

"...to give the nudge-wink to such stock tomfoolery as butt-kicking centenarian Buddhist monks and reverential allusions to “the Shaolin..."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Ghosts of Mississippi

"...the South and the popular urge to drag it kicking and screaming into the 20th century. It’s not enough,..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saint of Gamblers

"...a whole 10 minutes as “Lone Seven,” a tough, high-kicking lawman who saves our silly heroes from certain death..."

March 13, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Show

"...fractious world of rap and hip-hop has been slowly kicking its way around the country for the last two..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

High Voltage Asian Cop

"...performance appropriate to the vicious goings-on (in addition to kicking some serious butt in the film's numerous hard-hitting fight..."

June 16, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Basketball Diaries

"...or foams at the mouth and agonizingly convulses while kicking his habit. But what DiCaprio fails to capture is..."

April 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

King of the Sea

"...Wai Kwong and Conan Lee. Lo Wai Kwong, the super-kicking bad guy from Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II, teams..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Heroic Trio

Three female superheroes, who were initially enemies, team up to defeat an ancient monster who is stealing children of royal blood.

"...so for some tastes. After all, can sugary romance, high-kicking martial arts, grotesque infant deaths, wild stunts, crazed melodrama,..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Man Trouble

"...soon announces that she's over her timidity and starts kicking people, making us all a lot more comfortable. The..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

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