Maudie

A Canadian folk artist falls for a fishmonger

"...other flat, two-dimensional surface she could find. In her lifetime, her work never sold for more than a few..."

July 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hero

Sam Elliott plays a cowboy actor dying of cancer

"...the septuagenarian’s free-form (and molly-buzzed) acceptance speech at a lifetime achievement award ceremony goes viral and he gets another..."

June 23, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

2017 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation

Watch and prepare for your Oscar pool

"...by Patrick Osborne, manages to cram in a whole lifetime’s worth of father-daughter love and well-busked music in general..."

Feb. 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Manchester by the Sea

Casey Affleck shines in this heartfelt drama

"...sublime), but Affleck here has the role of his lifetime. For the most part, Lee manages to keep his..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

When the Bough Breaks

A surrogate mother goes psycho

"...better take things above and beyond the hundreds of Lifetime movies that have come before it. This latest iteration..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Genius

Editor Maxwell Perkins and author Thomas Wolfe collaborate in biopic

"...“A writer like Tom, I get once in a lifetime,” the editor Maxwell Perkins (Firth) insists, by way of..."

June 24, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Family Fang

Jason Bateman directs and co-stars in this dark comedy

"...the siblings, it’s a moment of clarity in a lifetime of a familial dysfunction...."

May 6, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

45 Years

A long-married couple begins to question their union

"...intention. Be it 90 minutes, a weekend, or a lifetime spent in another’s company: Imperfectly is the best we..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas

The former teen heartthrob turned evangelical entrepreneur shows how to put the faith back into Christmas.

"...Crew. Dramatically, this is not scintillating stuff; your average Lifetime Movie Network production boasts a far better grasp on..."

Nov. 14, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Take Me to the River

Memphis and Stax Records music artists from an earlier era mentor a younger generation in this ambient documentary.

"...a privilege to both witness and participate in this once-in-a-lifetime convergence of yesterday and today, particularly for Luther Dickinson,..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

DVDanger: 'Flowers in the Attic'

1950s story, 1970s glam, old fashioned Gothic mayhem

"...about incest among the rich. Mercifully, we have the Lifetime Network to remind us how unbelievably strange that decade..."

April 19, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Still Mine

James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold star in this octogenarian love story.

"...good to be reminded that love that withstands a lifetime is a most precious thing...."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Insidious: Chapter 2

All the same gang's back for this follow-up to the hit spooker.

"...baggage and all – for days, weeks, months, a lifetime...."

Sept. 20, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Language of a Broken Heart

Actor/writer/co-producer Juddy Talt fashions a tale about a romance writer who's unlucky in love, and filmed it largely in Dallas.

"...Broken Heart might have made a passable Hallmark or Lifetime TV movie, cushioned by the TV-movie context. But as..."

March 29, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Parker

Action star Jason Statham plays the latest screen version of Donald E. Westlake's master thief Parker.

"...but holy hell, Parker’s two-hour running time takes a lifetime. Plenty of time for mental doodling, too, sampled forthwith:..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Higher Ground

Oscar-winning actress Vera Farmiga makes her debut as a director with this film in which she also stars as a woman who struggles with religious faith.

"...of faith is no overnight event; we witness the lifetime it took to arrive. Set primarily in the Seventies..."

Sept. 9, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Leap Year

From the director of Shopgirl comes this despairing and barely mediocre rom-com starring Amy Adams.

"...taking in a matinee of Brit director Tucker's soulless, Lifetime-lite flibbertigibbet of a movie, but for once I'm at..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Men Who Stare at Goats

Army experiments in the paranormal become a warped platform on which George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey run narrative circles.

"...more or less bumps into the story of a lifetime, packaged neatly in the mustachioed frame of Clooney’s Lyn..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Stoning of Soraya M.

This impassioned work of persuasion is like a splatter film made for the Lifetime network, a screed against stoning made for audiences who already agree.

"...M. is like a splatter film made for the Lifetime network, with touches of The Ox-Bow Incident tossed in..."

July 31, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest First Wave Films Announced (Finally)

Fantastic Fest 2009, Round One

"...Children ("Jabs an icicle in your eye!") and a lifetime achievement award will be presented to legendary Spanish director..."

July 13, 2009 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

My Life in Ruins

Nia Vardalos, who hit pay dirt with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is on shakier ground with this clichéd story about an American tourist guide in Greece.

"...and Miss Congeniality). Vardalos, who will probably spend a lifetime trying to replicate a fraction of the phenomenal success..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

New in Town

A strident Renée Zellweger stars in this forgettable fish-out-of-water comedy.

"...played on the less demanding stage of, say, a Lifetime made-for-TV movie, where Elmer's muzzy direction and a script..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

P.S. I Love You

Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank needs to call her agent before getting involved in any more romantic codswallop like this.

"...and Kudrow, Swank embarks on a teary journey of Lifetime proportions. Hope floats all over the place in P.S...."

Dec. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Atonement

Joe Wright has fashioned an epic piece of moviemaking from Ian McEwan’s novel: Starring Keira Knightley, the film is consumed with the nature of storytelling and the moral responsibility of the storyteller.

"...exploration of the sins of the daughter and a lifetime spent making reparations...."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Eastern Promises

In Cronenberg's film about the Russian mob in London, the director and star Viggo Mortensen relates a corker of a story.

"...say, Mortensen has been given the role of a lifetime; his transformation into the complexly duplicitous, taciturn, and enigmatic..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Quiet

The first Burnt Orange Productions joint mixes The Piano with Poison Ivy. Perhaps future generations of film scholars will embrace The Quiet as a B-movie that problematizes the oppressive gaze, but for now, it's a misfire.

"...Productions joint is a strange mash-up of Cinemax and Lifetime – a combination which might sound more appealing on..."

Sept. 1, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Joan Plowright stars in this bittersweet yet predictable story about an aging widow's new friendships.

"...well-trained muscle, the film’s melodrama too readily evokes a Lifetime Original Movie rather than subtle sentiment...."

June 2, 2006 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Exorcism of Emily Rose

Derrickson’s film, based on a real event in which a priest was charged with negligent homicide because of a death that occurred during an exorcism, flirts with relevance and assorted hot-button topics but fails to amount to much more than an overlong exercise in Jesuit Theosophy 101, played against the backdrop of Law & Order.

"...daringly nondescript courtroom drama that plays like basic cable’s Lifetime network movie of the week, were it hosted by..."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Clifford's Really Big Movie

The big red animated dog runs away and joins the circus.

"...a contest that will provide his owners with a lifetime supply of Tummy Yummies, his favorite brand of dog..."

Feb. 27, 2004 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Step Into Liquid

Surf's up! It's The Endless Summer: The Next Generation.

"...is a miraculous, jaw-dropping, and, frankly, inspiring collection of once-in-a-lifetime surfing sequences filmed from dangerously low-flying helicopters and with..."

Sept. 5, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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