Fantastic Fest Review: Rats

Morgan Spurlock’s new doc will burrow into your brain

"...realms of documentary and horror intersect in Morgan Spurlock’s Rats, a film that explores the morbid relationship between vermin..."

Sept. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Dan Gentile

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson's delightful animated film has room for both existentialist dread and a grinning joie de vivre.

"...Anderson began his feature career with two nearly flawless films, Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, and he’s been paying for..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I.Q.

"...majority of director Fred Schepisi's (Roxanne, Six Degrees of Separation) most recent film. Ryan, Robbins, and Matthau all deliver..."

Jan. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Blockers

Butt-chugging gags can't hide Blockers' big heart.

"...The latest from the Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg R-rated comedy machine, Blockers has the heart that their tediously..."

April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising

Seth Rogen learns that girls just want to have fun

"...played baby-rearing adults forced to take on the viciously fraternal animal house that moved in next door. Having vanquished..."

May 20, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saw II

With nary a decent, connective character in sight, this nasty sequel quickly becomes little more than a strenuous battle for survival among the already damned.

"...(Bell). Jigsaw’s modus operandi, carried over from the first film, is to awaken the nascent survival instinct in his..."

Oct. 28, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Marquis

"...Decuypere. Definitely not for everyone, the very ribald French film Marquis would be pornographic but for the fact that..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Pope Must Diet

"...Despite all the brouhaha surrounding the title of this film, The Pope Must Diet is actually a fairly innocuous..."

Sept. 27, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Not Your Usual Song and Dance

Indie Meme film showcase explores independent Indian cinema

"...There is no single definition of what an independent film is. Are they films that are independent in thought,..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Carmine Street Guitars

Spend time with the quiet artisans who make the instruments that rock & roll is built upon

"...Kelly and his protégé Cindy Hulej, who daily apply concentrated and reverential craftsmanship to the creation of utterly unique..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Skate Kitchen

Hybrid narrative/doc gets to the heart of NYC skater life

"...New York City’s Lower East Side. Unlike Clark’s 1995 film, however, the kids presented here are for the most..."

Aug. 17, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gemma Bovery

Flaubert's heroine gets a modern spin, courtesy of Posy Simmonds’ comic strip

"...new romantic intrigues, and her life in a ramshackle, rat-infested house with her ineffectual husband, Charlie (Flemyng). The terrific..."

July 17, 2015 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Arts + Labor Heads to Sundance

Local production house is freezing in Utah on our behalf

"...You've probably heard there's a pretty sizable film festival going on this week and next in Park..."

Jan. 16, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

It's All Nice on Ice

Sno Cone Inc. traces one man's exit from the rat race

"...a stockbroker, but he never planned on being a filmmaker. A born salesman, he bought and sold cars during..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell

Out and About

13th Annual Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival

"...and mixed-ethnicity parents ("You don't have to be a rat to marry a rat. You can be a rat..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Screens Feature by Amy Smith

Split Second

"...Cattrall. Let's get this straight right up front: this film is silly, pointless, absurd, confusing, asinine, and more than..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

1991 Festival of Animation

"...humor and a few of the most twisted short films ever seen. David Bishop's “Mother Goose” opens the show..."

Aug. 23, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ice Age: Collision Course

Latest entry of the series is overstuffed and meandering

"...thumb: It’s almost always a bad sign when a film franchise suddenly sends an otherwise earthbound core character into..."

July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Don Jon

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a guy who prefers porn to his girlfriend Scarlet Johansson in this film which also he wrote and directed.

"...Gordon-Levitt stars as the titular character in his debut film as a writer/director. Like the character he plays, Gordon-Levitt’s..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Perfect Holiday

In this lightweight yuletide fluffery, a young girl turns to a shopping-mall Santa to find a husband for her divorced mother.

"...As if in acknowledgment of the fact, this holiday film opens with a desperate sequence of protagonist Benjamin (Chestnut)..."

Dec. 14, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ratatouille

Pixar scores another triumph of animated wonder with this story of a rat who craves haute cuisine over garbage.

"...Directed by: Brad Bird. Brad Bird's first feature-length animated film, The Iron Giant, remains a genuine masterpiece unsullied by..."

June 29, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sonatine

"...do come into play, little else about Kitano's fourth film (shot in 1993 but just now seeing U.S. release)..."

July 17, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

U.S. Marshals

"...(a career bench-warmer whose previous résumé is heavy on film and sound editing) has managed to lose much of..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Senseless

"...stale gags that went bad sometime during the Kennedy administration and a stunningly unengaging romance that has all the..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Almost Holy

Doc chronicles one pastor's mission to keep Ukrainian kids off the street

"...Much in the vein of recent social-justice and accountability films like 2011’s The Interrupters and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act..."

June 3, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Whole Ten Yards

This Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, and Amanda Peet sequel falls several yards short of its mark.

"...farce The Whole Nine Yards is. But the previous film doubled its budget, so here we are. The original..."

April 9, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Ice Age

Prehistoric buddy cartoon.

"...wraps them up in a pleasant package. To the filmmakers' credit, it's the “pleasant,” not the “packaged,” you walk..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Click

Click is a message movie whose real message isn't "Stop and Smell the Roses, Jackass," but "How to Manipulate the Audience in 12 E-Z Steps."

"...to no one's surprise heads the "Beyond" department), Sandler's rat-racing architect, Michael Newman, withered by age and regret, literally..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Reel Paradise

This documentary shows what happens when famed producer’s rep/author/gadabout John Pierson convinces his family to move with him to Fiji, where, if all goes according to plan, he can leave behind the indie-film rat race, immerse himself in a completely foreign culture, and, best of all, screen all sorts of movies for the natives.

"...Pierson (his résumé includes key assistance to the early films of indie luminaries ranging from Spike Lee to Kevin..."

Sept. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Money Talks

"...Directed by: Brett Ratner. Starring: Chris Tucker, Charlie Sheen, Heather Locklear and Paul..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

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