Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

A Hollywood star falls to earth with mad, exhilarating results.

"...is cracking from the stress. The play is in shambles, Riggan’s Broadway big-shot co-star (Edward Norton, a majestic ass)..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Blue Jasmine

Class difference and life's shambles are on Woody Allen's mind as he leads Cate Blanchett through a perfectly calibrated performance as a Park Avenue matron brought low by modern finance.

"...that point, his observations about class differences and the shambles of life are spot-on...."

Aug. 9, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

"...some connection to his father, while his mother (Bullock) shambles at home, near-catatonic with grief. Daldry and his adapter,..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Robert Downey Jr. inhabits the role of Sherlock Holmes to a near-molecular level in this rushing whoosh of a follow-up to 2009's blockbuster.

"...Arthur Conan Doyle's peerlessly curious antihero is a gorgeous shambles. The whole film, which caroms from 1891 London to..."

Dec. 16, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hell Ride

This grindhousey biker film, executive-produced by Quentin Tarantino, is a convoluted, overly snazzy-looking tale of bad blood between even worse people.

"...sight, including Madsen's reptile grin. The story is a shambles, incoherent throughout, veined with tirelessly wearying flashbacks, hallucinations, and..."

Aug. 8, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Fan

"...fans. Despite the fact that his marriage is in shambles, he's out of sync and out of place at..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Father is a Hero

"...Chiu-wai's character in Hard-Boiled, left Li's family life in shambles. Both his disease-stricken wife and young, but equally capable,..."

June 30, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

A Flame in My Heart

"...holes up in his apartment and becomes an emotional shambles, a la Repulsion. On stage she can no longer..."

Aug. 30, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Army of the Dead

Latest zombie flick should just stay buried

"...too much time and space to see where it shambles with no bite. Out-of-date Vegas references, and stand-in locations..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

15 Things You Didn't Know About Bigfoot (#1 Will Blow Your Mind)

Search for the shaggy beast kinda goes nowhere

"...bits are in the frontend. Even when, in the shambles of the third act, Bigfoot finally shows up, it..."

May 7, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Poison 13, Meat Purveyors, and Churchwood Guitarist Bill Anderson Loads Out of Town

If not for Austin, “I don’t know if I would have been a musician at all”

"...Happy Death (1984) Poison 13 (1984-1987) Shockhead (1985-1986) Ballad Shambles (1985-1988) Daniel Johnston (1985-2019) Hand of Glory (1989-1992) Blow..."

March 29, 2021 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

One Hour Outcall

Emotional, rather than physical, consent is tragically probed in this sex work drama

"...Yet, even with a clear theatrical influence, it never shambles into staginess - due in part to director Cottam's..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Aviva

Dance your way through this genderfluid examination of relationships

"...the first time they slept together – while his shambles from that blissful, innocent night towards the foreseen collapse...."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil

A taste of Eighties-style buddy-cop action-comedy hits all the right faces

"...he wakes up in hospital, his empire is in shambles and who's at his bedside? Detective Jung Tae-suk (Kim..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Destroyer

Nicole Kidman's grimy noir mistakes grit for intrigue

"...daylight. Upon first sight, police detective Erin Bell (Kidman) shambles down a Los Angeles service road with the gait..."

Jan. 11, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Action Point

Johnny Knoxville takes one for the team (again)

"...while Bad Grandpa had a shambling amiability, this just shambles. There’s a small sense of drama from Bakkedahl as..."

June 8, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Go behind the groundbreaking book of interviews; a must for cinephiles

"...who’s tenderly worn their copy of the book into shambles, the film’s fresh insights come in hearing great directors..."

Feb. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Roar

Drafthouse Films reissues this truly trippy oddity from 1981

"...scene, a prostrate and helpless Griffith lies amidst the shambles of the house with a huge lioness atop her,..."

April 17, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Delivery Man

Vince Vaughn stars in this remake of a sweet Canadian film about a prolific sperm donor whose contributions catch up with him 20 years later.

"...of parenthood. David’s disorderly life becomes more of a shambles as the news arrives that he is the father..."

Nov. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

'Face Off' Recap: Fast And Furry

Zombies vs. werewolves is nothing compared to backstage fights

"...London is stunning, but the actual werewolf stumbles and shambles. Generally, the most successful transformations have been into wolfmen,..."

March 5, 2013 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Branded

In a dystopian society, corporations can see inside people's minds and keep them deluded, but one man fights back.

"...at transgression, but the film is ultimately a total shambles...."

Sept. 7, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Divide

This is an apocalyptic narrative about a group of people holed up in a bomb shelter who are under attack from biohazard baddies.

"...director) Whichever is the case, The Divide is a shambles, and not in a good way...."

Jan. 13, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Define 'Normal'

Debra Monroe on the families we're born with and the families we build

"...pick and an Elle magazine Top 10 Book, and Shambles, which the Texas Observer praised as a novel of..."

May 14, 2010 Books Feature by Scott Blackwood

The Black Waters of Echo's Pond

Recalling the tone and spirit of Eighties horror films, this is an homage to exsanguinations past.

"...The Black Waters of Echo's Pond – which positively shambles off the tongue like one of H.P. Lovecraft's early..."

April 9, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Occupational Hazards

Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video

"...in and starts milling around the Guadalupe store. He shambles over to the music section at some point, finds..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

My Name Is Bruce

Cult star Bruce Campbell directs and stars here as himself, but the actor is mistaken for his popular character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and is forced to fight a real monster.

"...him and smell bad, and his life is in shambles. Early on, he slurps down a dog bowl of..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost Rider

The movie adds little to Marvel's source material, but to be fair, there wasn't a surfeit of originality in the comic book to begin with.

"...had so much obvious fun with a role; he strut-shambles through the film like an aging BMXer too cool..."

Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Friends With Money

Forget friends with money – how about friends with husbands, kids, mortgages, and so-called life plans? That’s the short list of differences between the depressed, single stoner, played by Jennifer Aniston, and her circle of female friends.

"...marriage to her writing partner, David (Isaacs), is in shambles; clothing designer Jane (McDormand), thick in the throes of..."

April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Matador

A curious, postmodern sort of buddy comedy, The Matador is like Death of a Salesman if Willy Loman had been a contract killer.

"...Wright confides that his life is something of a shambles: His wife Bean (Davis) and he lost their only..."

Jan. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pauly Shore Is Dead

Born and bred L.A. narcissist Pauly Shore turns auteur for this comedy film outing about … himself.

"...his darkest hour of need (his career is in shambles, he has no professional representation, his favorite porn tape..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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