The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water

The lovable gang from the animated TV show leaves Bikini Bottom to come ashore.

"...a computer-generated sea of carefully obscured traumas and tidy life lessons, one sentient sponge dares not to take animated..."

Feb. 13, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss

The Skeleton Twins

Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig co-star as siblings in this dramatic workout.

"...health on its mind, The Skeleton Twins feels oddly low-stakes; suicide, a recurring concern, never feels like more than..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

God Help the Girl

Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's first film is a charming movie musical in the key of Mod.

"...faux; who breaks into song and dance in real life? And yet: Wouldn’t the world be so much sunnier..."

Sept. 12, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Change-Up

In this body-switcheroo movie, Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman star as pals each a little envious of the other's life.

"...get two persons – each disgruntled by his own life and envious of the other's – to trade places...."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Hobo With a Shotgun

Though it's a great title, this Rutger Hauer movie is an unfocused throwback to Seventies exploitation films.

"...Mark A. Owen and Molly Dunsworth. This Hobo started life as one of the faux trailers in the underloved..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Toy Story 3

The gang is back, and Pixar has delivered another animated gem that has the toys finding their purpose in life now that their owner has outgrown them.

"...Directed by: Lee Unkrich. If you follow film blogs, you might have heard this week of..."

June 18, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Brooklyn's Finest

Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle star in this clichéd police drama that's capped by an outlandish third act.

"...Martin. Fuqua’s visual flash and a good cast in low simmer make the ironically titled Brooklyn’s Finest consistently watchable,..."

March 5, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Girlfriend Experience

Steven Soderbergh directs this DV-cam look at the life of a high-end Manhattan call girl (played by porn star Sasha Grey).

"...advice on financial investments over a nightcap before bed. Life is a series of transactions, director Soderbergh seems to..."

May 22, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fired Up

This new teen sex comedy is both sexist and prudish.

"...pop-culture references that pass for jokes; mix well with life lessons and some low-grade existential collapse; and voilà!: a..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

New Order

Movement: The Factory Years; Power, Corruption & Lies: The Factory Years; Low-Life: The Factory Years; Brotherhood: The Factory Years; Technique: The Factory Years

"...Corruption & Lies: The Factory Years (Rhino/Warner Bros./London) New OrderLow-Life: The Factory Years (Rhino/Warner Bros./London) New OrderBrotherhood: The Factory..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Music Review by Marc Savlov

Soul Men

Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac play a couple of washed-up and forgotten R&B backup singers, who are on an improbable road back to fame.

"...by one of its throwaway characters. But for the life of me, I can’t think of a better way..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

In Search of a Midnight Kiss

In Alex Holdridge's lovely new film, two twentysomething Los Angelenos wander the streets together on New Year's Eve, walking and talking amid the stunning black-and-white cinematography.

"...with awe) talking and talking and talking – about life and love and family and all those other things..."

Aug. 29, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Brick Lane

Brick Lane shows us the life of a Bangladeshi woman, who moves to London to marry a man she's never met, keep house, raise a family, and eventually act on her squelched yearnings.

"...a condemnation of romantic indifference, an anthropological study of life in modern-day London council housing, and a commentary on..."

July 18, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns

Tyler Perry's latest feel-good drama about African-American family relationships scores its best casting with Angela Bassett in the lead, but otherwise falls prey to Perry's slipshod filmmaking technique.

"...film": crass but wholesome stories about modern black family life that mesh comedy, melodrama, and Christian uplift – and..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films: Animation

See the five animated shorts in competition for the Oscar, and judge for yourself.

"...world that looks like a Degas painting brought to life and then reimagined as a dream. At once both..."

Feb. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Hannah Takes the Stairs

The naturalistic indie talker unhurriedly follows a young woman through her days and nights – Nerf-ball games at work, waiting for the bus, and a series of relationships fueled by “chronic dissatisfaction.”

"...and it is not for everyone. The budget is low, the timing is slow, the conflicts are internal, and..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Right at Your Door

Harrowing doesn't even begin to describe this low-budget exercise in siege paranoia, which builds on our current terrorist-related night sweats.

"...how permeable your home, and by extension your entire life, really is. No amount of plastic sheeting and duct..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Factotum

Charles Bukowski's Henry Chinaski is back, played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance; it's 100-proof Bukowski, but with a decent barkeep at the helm and Lili Taylor's Jan on his arm. Factotum, for all its grim grind, is funny-serious and smart-stupid.

"...back, this time played by Matt Dillon in a low-key, gorgeously beery performance that cuts closer to the author's..."

Sept. 8, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jailbait

The stage origins of this low-budget, indie prison movie are simply everywhere, but it is so fantastically acted that it inspires indulgence of its first-timers’ mistakes.

"...Zayas. There’s nothing else in town quite like this low-budget, indie prison movie, which played the Austin Film Festival..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Brown Bunny

Vincent Gallo's notorious film turns out to be an anti-action road trip that has the feeling of a fever dream.

"...a curse on Ebert’s prostate, saying "I hope it blows up to the size of a cantaloupe" before calling..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Intimate Strangers

In this surprisingly romantic tale of confused identity and psychoanalysis, the doctor isn’t in, but the tax attorney is.

"...Gilbert Melki and Laurent Gamelon. This modest French-language film follows the time-honored cinematic tradition of plot as spearheaded by..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

CQ

"...shooting 16mm footage of himself dissecting his tres français flat-life with girlfriend Marlene (Bouchez) and his nights cutting a..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Chai

"...strict and traditional parents the real truth about his life in this low-budget indie project about coming of age..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Training Day

"...Cliff Curtis and Macy Gray. “This is important. Don't blow it,” wife Lisa (Ayanna) tells her rookie cop husband..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Angel Eyes

"...city doing thankless good deeds. After she risks her life in the aftermath of a drive-by shooting, he springs..."

May 18, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Isn't She Great

"...philosophy carried failed actress Susann to a hugely successful midlife career as the author of such tits `n' glitz..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Beefcake

"...for an identity. But given his subject -- the life and times of pulp magazine impresario and low-budget nudie..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Another Day in Paradise

"...setting to Drugstore Cowboy, Clark leeches the hazy outlaw life of any of that previous film's romantic notions of..."

Feb. 26, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Underground

Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, this is a sprawling, epic, comic tale of life during Yugoslavian wartime.

"...1995 Cannes Film Festival, this sprawling, epic tale of life during wartime is just now making it to our..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

"...might expect is what you get. For me, that low-tech, Fifties, camp charm wore a mite thin by the..."

March 28, 1997 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

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