Planes

This new animated film is charmless and schematic.

"...What a clunker. Though billed as coming from “the world of Cars” – that would be Pixar’s 2006 hit..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Smurfs 2

The Smurfs invade Paris. (Must've heard Jerry Lewis is a god there.)

"...Does the world need another movie about a bunch of miniature, blue-skinned..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Puerto Rican Inspiration

Simply made delicious food

"...when it comes time to return to the real world. The very bilingual island is home to a melting..."

Sept. 17, 2012 Food Post by Meghan Ruth Speakerman

The Words

As an examination of the writer's world, this film offers nothing new; as a romance it's not half bad.

"...which is almost always a stumbling block for actual, real-world writers. I can think of only a handful of..."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Katy Perry: Part of Me

The film is an inoffensive slice of canny brand (or is that non-Brand?) management and marketing.

"...her siblings from listening to or experiencing the secular world until they were teens – at which point Perry..."

July 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Wimpy kid, wimpy movie.

"...be a square peg in a round-hole kind of world. But Ramona and Beezus did so with sweetness and..."

April 1, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Very Ecstasy of Love

"...is better than Howard Hawk’s The Thing From Another World. (An old man in the cereal aisle at HEB..."

Aug. 18, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Darfur Now

For all the film’s rallying efforts, its meandering structure and absence of a central focal point result in a film about genocide that is, as unbelievable as it sounds, kind of boring.

"...Directed by: Ted Braun. The world can be a terrifying place. No doubt there. But..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Nanny McPhee

Nanny McPhee is something of a rarity: a movie for children that is about children and their world.

"...movie for children that is about children and their world. There are no aliens in it, no cartoon animals,..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Eye

"...Here the lucky winner is Mun (Lee Sin-je), a pretty young Chinese woman who has been blind since a..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Amen.

"...Jews to continue in virtually full view of the world. This is the story of Lt. Kurt Gerstein (Tukur),..."

March 7, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Jurassic Park III

"...computer effects and Stan Winston animatronics, and they look pretty darn good, although no time is allowed (as in..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get Over It

"...or groan … but probably both. There's also a pretty sweet love story going down between two appealing kids..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Devil's Island

"...and Iceland may have been allies during the Second World War, but in this boisterous period piece from the..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twin Dragons

"...Rush Hour. As flagrant cash-in strategies go, it's actually pretty darned felicitous. Other Chan movies have been more favorably..."

April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Love Is the Devil

"...of the most important English painters to emerge since World War II. He was also, it seems, a fairly..."

Dec. 4, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Holy Weapon

"...massacring the great Chinese swordsmen of the martial arts world. He proceeds to challenge Heaven's Sword, a legendary Chinese..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Rock and Roll Cop

"...both governments due to the ever-approaching 1997 crossover. Wong's world view is far from pretty: Under his direction, Rock..."

Nov. 18, 1994 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Colin Nutley's House of Angels

"...with charmingly sly performances that steal you into the world of the movie. It begins with a freak accident..."

Nov. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Toys

"...movie's crowning achievement is its successful creation of a world out of time, a universe that is total fabrication...."

Dec. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The National Film Board of Canada's Animation Festival

"...with their support, Canadian animators have been among the world's best and most prolific for decades. What we've got..."

Feb. 28, 1992 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

Oliver & Company

"...Fagin, the sadsack human “patron” of the group, with world-weary resignation. The Divine Miss M. is deliciously campy as..."

Nov. 18, 1988 Movie Review by Marie Mahoney

Weathering With You

A magical rainy adventure in Tokyo with sympathy for the underdog

"...who can only get a job with a Weekly World News-style tabloid magazine with a staff of three –..."

Jan. 17, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story

Lisbeth Salander is back, and now she's James Bond

"...suffered catastrophic childhood trauma and has created an interior world that incorporates her nonchalant gender fluidity and her worldview..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Major Artist Bebel Gilberto

“Brazilians are intense. We are not full of shit.”

"...49, who lives in New York, plays the One World Theatre on Monday, May 16...."

May 12, 2016 Music Post by Alejandra Ramirez

DVDanger: Hellions

We binge-watch this month's horror for you

"...axes and a lust for teen blood, and that's pretty much the genesis of Hellions...."

Feb. 7, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Meet Bill

Aaron Eckhart stars in this middle-aged wake-up call whose message – trust yourself and find your inner child – is tired but expressed with a whole lot of enthusiasm.

"...bank, pride be damned. And to everyone else, he pretty much became invisible. Eckhart plays Bill as a man..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Luv Doc: Questioning AI

Terrible taste is pretty much hardwired into the American aesthetic

"..."'Blood Sugar Sex Magik' is America's hate crime on world culture."..."

Feb. 24, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

What We're Listening to Right Now

Aaron Stephens, Paul Cauthen, Drakulas, Glasshealer, Pretty Little Thieves, and more local sounds

"...in the sense that I'm trying to leave the world of Soul/R&B music, but not entirely," Stephens emailed. "I'd..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Music Column by Clara Wang

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt's metaphorical novel gets an award-season adaptation

"...his errant desire to keep something pure in the world, his secrets, but primarily his mother. It was one..."

Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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