Meet Me in Montenegro

Real-life couple and co-directors explore whether love is better the second time around

"...Anderson recounts how they met cute on a train seven years earlier and impetuously decided to travel to the..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

SXSW Q&A: Wyclef Jean

“I am the most famous Haitian in my century, right?”

"...being disqualified on residency grounds. Five years later – seven years since From the Hut, to the Projects, to..."

March 19, 2015 Music Post by Nina Hernandez

Force Majeure

Blackly funny, yet lightly brutalizing, this Swedish film observes a married couple for whom a passing threat turns into an existential crisis.

"...Just who do you think you are? Those seven little words in a row typically signal a taunt..."

Nov. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

I Origins

The director of 2011's Another Earth is back with a another appealing yet fuzzy story about rift between empiricism and spiritualism.

"...point, sudden tragedy strikes and the film cuts ahead seven years. Now a father and husband, Ian must grapple..."

July 25, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

An Eli Wallach Triple-Header

Three Eli Wallach classics will screen over the next few days

"...serendipitous confluence of Eli Wallach movies – The Magnificent Seven, The Misfits, and The Good, the Bad and the..."

July 17, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Armstrong Lie

What's a filmmaker to do with all the footage shot during Lance Armstrong's inspirational bicycling comeback in 2009 but reshape it into a documentary about a sports hero who couldn't stop lying?

"...about his doping once he was stripped of his seven Tour titles in 2012, Gibney already had finished a..."

Nov. 8, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Generation Iron

This doc about bodybuilders vying for the Mr. Olympia title is narrated by Mickey Rourke.

"...competition in Las Vegas, Nevada. The film concentrates on seven different bodybuilders and presents compelling mini-portraits of each. Rather..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black

V/H/S/2

Horror anthology scares up few thrills.

"...horror storytelling (a mode that two of this film’s seven filmmakers – producer Gregg Hale and director Eduardo Sánchez..."

July 26, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Hijacking

This psychologically tense Danish drama about modern-day piracy doesn't cater to cliches or sentimentality.

"...ransom in return for the safety of the ship’s seven-man crew. The negotiations that ensue between the corporate offices..."

June 28, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away

In this 3-D spectacle, the wan drama takes a back seat to the Cirque's acrobatics.

"...film offers up a kind of pupu platter of seven Cirque du Soleil shows, with little niblets of filmed..."

Dec. 28, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

A troupe of top-tier British thesps raises this crowd-pleasing pap into something enjoyable,

"...a fluid opening montage, the audience is introduced to seven aging Brits who, for one reason or another, have..."

May 11, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Damsels in Distress

Greta Gerwig stars in Whit Stillman's new film that's full of awkward artifice and – dance.

"...seek to elevate the student body at their college, Seven Oaks. Exactly what they are elevating their classmates from..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Grey

Bloodthirsty wolves and the brutalizing Alaskan elements conspire against a band of airplane crash survivors.

"...workers’ plane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness, leaving only seven survivors. Survival is the key word, and no sooner..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Young Adult

Actors Charlize Theron and Patton Oswalt prove as riveting a combo as writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman.

"...Thirty-seven-year-old Mavis Gary (Theron) is a beautiful, unhappy, and unlikable..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Meek's Cutoff

The epic and the elementary combine in Kelly Reichardt's Western survivalist tale that stars Michelle Williams.

"...proves elusive here, which is rather the point, as seven pioneers in 1845, journeying along the still-new Oregon Trail,..."

May 6, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

7 Khoon Maaf

In this Hindi mystery, a seven-times married woman leaves behind six deceased husbands.

"...reviewed at press time. In this Hindi mystery, a seven-times married woman leaves behind six deceased husbands...."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

This glad-hearted and furiously funny piece of pop entertainment stars Michael Cera and is told in the vernacular of video games.

"...meets girl, boy woos girl, boy battles said girl's seven evil exes in order to win her hand. Boy..."

Aug. 13, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Ramona and Beezus

Beverly Cleary's beloved Ramona Quimby makes a pleasing leap to the big screen with this adaptation.

"..."pest" who would go on to headline in Cleary's seven sequels. This film adaptation puts the same emphasis on..."

July 30, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

"Hubble 3D"

This breathtaking IMAX documentary follows NASA's May 2009 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.

"...become effectively useless due to a single warped lens. Seven astronauts were sent to rendezvous with the Hubble, necessitating..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

This third outing makes it abundantly clear that this once-fresh mummy franchise is dead in everything but name.

"...Michelle Yeoh, Luke Ford and Isabella Leong. It's been seven years since husband-and-wife adventurers Rick and Evelyn O'Connell (Fraser,..."

Aug. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Durant Watch Part II

"...Midthird, Seattle down by six, and the 19-year-old facials seven-foot Rasho Nesterovic:..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Sports Post by Andy Denham

Evan Almighty

Steve Carell's new film is a mild laffer instead of a divine comedy.

"...a humongous ark in his back yard (and the seven neighboring empty lots). This time-consuming project, of course, interferes..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lord Giveth and the Lord Taketh Away

"...at home, and a 4-3 record over their past seven games. This would have a been a huge step..."

Nov. 21, 2006 Sports Post by Mark Fagan

loudQUIETloud: A Film About the Pixies

This film captures a fair amount of this band's electric charge and documents its 2004 reunion tour.

"...improbably catchy EP and went on from there for seven-odd years before self-destructing in a wave of surfy self-mutilation,..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wassup Rockers

Larry Clark, the director of Kids, is back 10 years later with this look at a group of teenage male Latinos in Los Angeles who have more than the usual difficulties finding somewhere to fit in.

"...that lends his fictions an almost documentarylike feel. The seven teens in this movie are Latinos who all hail..."

July 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Heart of the Game

Seven years of film footage went into this perceptive documentary about girls who play high school basketball, the situations unique to their gender, and their marginalization by the school administration.

"...as the Roosevelt Roughriders play, as the film encompasses seven years and gets mired in other players’ stories, stretching..."

July 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Ball of Fire

"...of the strangest riffs on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ever. Stanwyck is hot!..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Louis Black

Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

A singularly dreadful example of what can happen when potentially capable comedians check their brains at a committee meeting and go slumming for dollars.

"...– the filmmakers like to remind the audience in seven-minute intervals that these guys have names like Assapopoulos and..."

Aug. 19, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

A Lot Like Love

This Ashton Kutcher/Amanda Peet romance film is a lot like mediocrity.

"...Lot Like Love takes place over the course of seven years, but it feels like real time. It’s as..."

April 22, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Sky Blue

This gorgeously dystopian South Korean film rivals and, at times, surpasses the best of Japanese animé.

"...from Kim’s original South Korean production which was a seven-year affair that brought together virtually all of the country’s..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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