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Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Mirror
"...Omoumi, M. Shirad, R. Mojhedi and Mina Mohammad-Khani. A young Iranian girl, who has one arm in a cast..."
April 16, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Safe Men
A talentless singing duo become even less-talented safecrackers in this inspired comedy.
"...You Do, subUrbia), two of the funniest and hardest-working young actors around, are fabulously cast in this movie that..."
Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Postcards From America
"...result, one he futilely attempts to comprehend as an adult. The love/sex conundrum haunts him: he hustles, he pursues..."
Feb. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Muppet Treasure Island
"...Muppets once again prove their appeal to kids and adults alike. After watching Muppet Treasure Island, my young companion..."
Feb. 16, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Warrior Marks
"...clitoridectomies and vaginal suturing and excruciating mutilations that keep young girls and adult women subservient, compliant, and in pain..."
Oct. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
American Heart
"...He's perched on that impossible ledge between childhood and adulthood, wrestling with the emotions of both. Furlong plays him..."
Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires
White Dog
With typically blunt, disturbing, combative, unconventional storytelling, Fuller tackles the disease of bigotry with this story about a racist dog.
"...from an unseen direction. White Dog begins as aspiring young California actress McNichol, in her first adult screen role,..."
July 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The paternity mystery is solved, but the ABBA hits keep coming
"...In the other thread, set in 1979, we see young Donna (James) meeting, loving, and bedding three guys after..."
July 20, 2018 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Life, Animated
The magic of Disney unlocks a boy's mind
"...is rarely specified. In Life, Animated – about a young man with autism who found through Disney movies a..."
July 22, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Wadjda
In this first Saudi Arabian film ever directed by a woman, much is revealed about the reality of life for women there via its story of a 10-year-old girl who wants a bicycle.
"...film’s 10-year-old protagonist (Waad Mohammed), a resourceful and self-possessed young thing, who we can tell is a square peg..."
Oct. 18, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Akeelah and the Bee
This story about a girl from the ghetto who wins the national spelling bee has lofty if sometimes unfulfilled goals, but is a rewarding tale nevertheless.
"...documentary Spellbound, you will perhaps recall Ashley White, the young spelling-bee contestant from the D.C. projects who cobbled together..."
April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman
The Woodsman
Writer-director Nicole Kassell’s debut film is a lean drama anchored by subject matter which, although difficult, remains distantly disquieting yet never challenging.
"...serving 12 years for his felonious conduct with a young girl. Based on a play by Steven Fechter, The..."
Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space
This new anime import marks a break with the Japanese traditions and invents a wholly original and kittenish appeal.
"...is the surreal, almost childlike story of Tamala, a young kitten from "Meguro City, Tokyo, Cat Earth, Feline Galaxy,"..."
Sept. 26, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Becoming Astrid
Pippi Longstocking creator's life story isn't for kids
"...in her native Sweden), she was Astrid Ericsson, a young girl growing up in a small village in southern..."
Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Paddington
We extend a big bear hug to Paddington.
"...A Bear Called Paddington. Featuring the misadventures of a young bear from “darkest Peru” who finds himself living in..."
Jan. 16, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
This fantasy film, adapted from Susan Cooper's series of novels, is utterly devoid of anything but bombastically simplistic notions.
"...mythos, and her books may, indeed, be ripping good, young-adult yarns. As scripted by, of all people, Trainspotting's John..."
Oct. 5, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Brick
Brick transfers Dashiell Hammett’s hard-boiled universe to the modern high school campus with nary a clue that more than a half-century has passed since the Continental Op’s heyday.
"...at the world of high school with its bewitching young girls passing for femmes fatales and its lunkhead teen..."
April 7, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Thirteen
Catherine Hardwicke directs her laser-beam gaze into the horrifically malleable soul of young girls caught in bad situations.
"...that bores straight into the horrifically malleable soul of young girls caught in bad situations. What’s a bad situation?..."
Aug. 29, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
An American Rhapsody
"...and Peter manage to flee Hungary with their other young daughter Maria but are forced by fate to leave..."
Aug. 31, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Laal Singh Chaddha
Indian remake of Forrest Gump even more cloying than the original
"...girlfriend Jenny is replaced with Rupa, played as an adult by another A-list actor, Kareena Kapoor. Rupa’s journey is..."
Aug. 12, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Hurtado
The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt's metaphorical novel gets an award-season adaptation
"...by 17th century Dutch artist Carel Fabritius, one that young Theo steals away after he survives the bombing and..."
Sept. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Slappy returns in this perfectly timed sequel
"...worse, overlong. This is one movie that takes its young protagonists seriously, a carry-over from Stine’s books, while keeping..."
Oct. 12, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Back to Burgundy
French drama tries to find life lessons in the vineyard.
"...brings the prodigal son home, after leaving as a young man a decade earlier to escape his father’s clutches...."
April 6, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Goodbye Christopher Robin
The story of A.A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh
"...of the stories’ fame becomes increasingly apparent as the young boy (played for the most part by Tilston) becomes..."
Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
A Quiet Passion
A biographical sketch of poet Emily Dickinson
"...a seamless bit of digital wizardry to transition his young actors into their older counterparts. The effect of these..."
May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Logan
Hugh Jackman sports those famous mutton chops for the final time
"...Saving the world is arguably a young man’s game, and Wolverine (né Logan) is getting a..."
March 3, 2017 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Bounce Back
Charming film pits two love gurus against each other
"...ensemble cast that work hard to make this an adult romance and not a sniggering sex comedy. In this,..."
Dec. 9, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Little Men
Friendships are tested in this bittersweet coming-of-age tale
"...At the film’s beginning, young Jake (Taplitz) and his parents – Brian (Kinnear), a..."
Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
My Golden Days
Teenage first love – as only the French can depict it
"...You have to be very young, or very French, to pitch such grandiloquent woo as..."
