Malice

"...Gallagher, Josef Sommer, George C. Scott and Anne Bancroft. Malice is well-named. It's a seething cauldron of animosity and..."

Oct. 1, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Lions

This stunning nature documentary about the vanishing lions of Africa is not your children’s Lion King.

"...and “violent but never malicious.” That last part about malice is important because The Last Lions is the rare..."

March 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hangover

The Hangover is deliciously darker than Todd Phillips' previous comedies, Old School and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice or drenched in the "bromance" creed of the present.

"...and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice as those credits suggest (this is not, thankfully, Very..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Epic Movie

The filmmakers are completely tone-deaf when it comes to the art of film parody, and their special form of sadism-as-punch-line leaves the audience in a perpetual cringe.

"...movement in American movies, wherein a deep and abiding malice for their protagonists and a desire to see them..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Believer

"...commits against Jews or how many words of unspeakable malice he utters about them, he cannot escape the fact..."

July 5, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Breaking the Waves

"...for one another. The tragic denouement results not from malice, but the unintended fallout from that love. Watson is..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Close My Eyes

"...with incest, but it comes dangerously close. It's not malice on Poliakoff's part; it's lack of control. And it..."

Dec. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Crossing the Line

"...gangster and his minions come chasing after Danny with malice on their minds but Danny has now, most literally,..."

Oct. 11, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Child's Play 3

"...up in dark corners with knife in hand and malice in heart to maim and kill all who stand..."

Sept. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Drop Dead Fred

A grown woman's imaginary childhood friend (called Drop Dead Fred) returns when her adult problems are at their bleakest, and creates all kinds of mayhem and fun – and, along the way, helps our heroine self-actualize and become a more centered human being.

"...most of the cuteness was replaced with venom and malice...."

May 31, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What We're Listening to Right Now

Deezie Brown, El Combo Oscuro, Ifé Neuro, Don Leady, Lizzy Lehman, and more locals worth a listen

"...Deezie Brown’s “Malice at the Palace”..."

May 13, 2022 Music Column by Clara Wang

Staying Hospitable During Our Nation's Division

Local restaurateurs discuss civility at the table

"...body, members of the same team once again: "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Food Feature by Melanie Haupt

Girl in Progress

The roles of mother and daughter get mixed up in this old story told in a smart way.

"...her single, often absent, working mom Grace (Mendes), with malice aforethought. Well, pseudo malice, anyway. Girl in Progress plays..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spotlight: Clipse/Re-Up Gang

Clipse Re-Ups a new collaboration

"...eclipsed by T's Virginia Beach concern. Clipse's Pusha and Malice have reached the apex of success, first collaborating with..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature by Chase Hoffberger

New CM Zimmerman Loses to Bulldog

New District 6 Council member dinged for suing publication

"...Zimmerman's request for limited discovery in order to "demonstrate malice," by searching Martin's computer for the names mentioned in..."

Jan. 9, 2015 News Feature by Amy Kamp

Raging Grace

Gothic-tinged immigration melodrama is neither lurid nor incisive enough

"...to The Turn of the Screw levels of miniature malice...."

Dec. 1, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Evil Dead Rise

Deadites go to the big city in the franchise's fifth film

"...His last film was about a mother risking magical malice to reclaim her child: This time, Ellie is physically..."

April 21, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Marvel gets tiny, weird, and wonderful again

"...that makes Quantumania work, just as much as Majors' malice, even if they're clearly imbalanced in powers. The MCU..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Skinamarink

Avant-garde horror strains eyes and patience

"...fend for themselves against an unseen force that whispers malice. Repeat for 100 minutes...."

Jan. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Piggy

Spanish teen slasher subverts the tropes with a new kind of protagonist

"...an underlying message that if everyone is capable of malice, no one is deserving of it...."

Oct. 7, 2022 Movie Review by Jasmine Lane

The Innocents

Norwegian "evil kids" horror delivers a sickening catharsis

"...about the disgusting) and ramps it up with endless malice that slowly builds to horrific action. It's the anti-jump..."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Black Phone

Ethan Hawke is a villain for the ages in this brilliant horror

"...implication and threat, and it's all in the quiet malice of Hawke's take on the controlling, unhinged Grabber. In..."

June 24, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Men

Alex Garland's mix of gender and myth is saved by its villain

"...her discovery turns to fear, and a level of malice hangs over everything. But in between such moments, Men..."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

You Won’t Be Alone

Macedonian witch drama straddles dreamy and pretentious

"...the dirt. However, where Maria kills with intent and malice, Nevena never kills with purpose. With her wicked nails,..."

April 1, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Offseason

Coastal cosmic horror in the eerie latest from Mickey Keating

"...quality jump scares and terrifying yokel menace, until the malice under the island finally reveals itself. Chilling and unsettling,..."

March 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Power of the Dog

Benedict Cumberbatch is malevolent and magnetic in this High Plains tragedy

"...incapable of processing change except through ferocious and bitter malice. Those misreadings are through his eyes, the result of..."

Nov. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

No Time to Die

Daniel Craig's last Bond adventure is a misfire

"...it wasn't also delivered with all the gravitas and malice of a bus timetable. It's ponderous, tedious, and somehow..."

Oct. 8, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

John and the Hole

Psychodrama from the bottom of a very literal pit of despair

"...how a family can ignore all the signs of malice fermenting in their own, was what John and the..."

Aug. 6, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Dry

Murder and secrets in the Australian Outback

"...from help that adds an air of menace and malice. It depends greatly on Bana's fractured, wounded urgency as..."

May 21, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sator

Occult horror will hold you in its dark, subtle spell

"...before if it wasn’t for that all-important miasma of malice and dread that sweeps over everything. What has gone..."

April 23, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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