Red Road

This subtle psychological thriller from Scotland holds its cards close to the vest while keeping viewers intrigued but perplexed.

"...woman who is seemingly indifferent to her own angular beauty, Jackie reveals little of what goes on in her..."

June 15, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Crazy Love

Documentary portrait of a mutually obsessive, interdependent, tabloid-fodder marriage going on 30 years.

"...Directed by: Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens. When Bronx beauty Linda Riss met Burton Pugach in 1957, she thought..."

June 15, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Surf's Up

This animated avian surf epic is most alive when its radio-friendly pop hits accompany beautiful CGI waves.

"...when its script calls for radio-friendly pop hits accompanying beauty footage of CGI waves. There’s nothing terribly wrong with..."

June 8, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Away From Her

Based on a short story by Alice Munro and confidently directed by actress-turned-director Sarah Polley, this drama starring the stunning-as-ever Julie Christie is a penetrating story about love's mysteries.

"...as "that Alzheimer's film starring that old Dr. Zhivago beauty" or some such. Away From Her, like its dominant..."

May 18, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pan's Labyrinth

Pan’s Labyrinth catapults Guillermo del Toro to the top ranks of international filmmakers: His dark and fertile imagination appears to have no limit.

"...hold. There are no happily-ever-afters here despite the exquisite beauty inherent in the face of the young actress Baquero...."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Painted Veil

Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.

"...native, the obligatory scene of Peking opera, and pastoral beauty shots by Stuart Dryburgh, Jane Campion’s cinematographer) there is..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Art School Confidential

This follow-up to Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes’ transcendent Ghost World is too scattershot to be truly great, but their smarty-pants campus yarn is on fire with satire.

"...its concept, and it has moments of real, heartbreaking beauty to go along with its bile – a sucker-punch..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things

Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of alleged teen author J.T. Leroy, Asia Argento's film describes a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.

"...Eric Alan Edwards) is a thing of heady, evil beauty. Make no mistake: Argento’s film in no way condones..."

April 14, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Libertine

Johnny Depp runs away with the show in this murkily filmed picture, cackling all the while and defiling beauty in all its forms as the exceedingly decadent Earl of Rochester.

"...with the show, cackling all the while and defiling beauty in all its forms along the way. Or trying..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ringer

A Farrelly brothers comedy that purports to have a message about treating the intellectually challenged as regular human beings and stars Johnny "Jackass" Knoxville is about as disingenuous as a comedy that urges us to see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit.

"...see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit...."

Dec. 23, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jarhead

Though lacking a clear point of view, the film seems to say that war not only dehumanizes soldiers but also infantilizes them. It’s not a pretty picture, but it is a lovely film.

"...With Jarhead, the director of American Beauty has adapted Anthony Swofford’s 2003 bestseller about his maddening..."

Nov. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

You could call it Seabiscuit Jr., but this horsey heartwarmer does something surprising in spite of its underdog sports-movie formula and shameless emotional manipulation: It manages to be an enjoyable movie about and for girls.

"...in spite of its underdog sports-movie formula, its sun-dappled beauty shots of Kentucky thoroughbred farms, and its shameless emotional..."

Oct. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

South Korean horror cultist Park Chan-wook's 2002 film is the opening freshet in his bloody cinematic triptych; it’s also a finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty.

"...finely wrought and emotionally complex film of surpassing, stylized beauty. As a director, Park possesses an auteurist’s eye for..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lila Says

Based on an eponymous 1996 erotic novel, Lila Says is the story of a French girl and an Arab boy who learns the difference between words and actions.

"...provocations of a 16-year-old girl. Lila, a blond-haired French beauty, drives the Arab boys of the quarter crazy with..."

Sept. 9, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Turtles Can Fly

New Iraqi drama by Iranian Kurd Bahman Ghobadi is lyrical and heart-wrenching as it focuses on the children of conflict.

"...dot this film, which is good because without their beauty and lyricism, Turtles Can Fly might be too horribly..."

May 27, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Motorcycle Diaries

Young Che Guevara takes a road trip up the length of South America and discovers his humanity in this portrait of the future revolutionary as a young man.

"...Gautier (Irma Vep), has an eye for the crazy beauty of youth on the road, and you can bet..."

Oct. 8, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Maria Full of Grace

A desperate young woman from Colombia, who hopes to better her life, becomes a drug mule for the syndicate, transporting heroin to the States.

"...and in possession of a gritty kind of terminal beauty that’s arresting to the eye even as the storyline..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Van Helsing

Hugh Jackman's mysterious monster hunter is pittefd against nearly the entire pantheon of Universal’s classic monsters, including Dracula and and the Wolf-Man.

"...is aided in his quest to kill Dracula by beauty Anna Valerious (Beckinsale), the last of a Romany bloodline..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nói Albinói (Nói the Albino)

This bewitching Icelandic film mines frozen veins of resentment and quirky, black-ice humor.

"...with little cause falls hard for the equally wayward beauty. In love, or lust, or more likely from sheer..."

May 7, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Willard

"...Glover’s subtly nuanced performance is a thing of queer beauty. Director Morgan’s debut is one of those delicious cinematic..."

March 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

City of God

City of God, like the Rio de Janeiro housing project for which it’s named, is often grim and dire, but the film is also imbued with hope and transcendence.

"...transcendence and has the technical artistry to find the beauty that lies within the rawness of his images. The..."

March 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sex and Lucía

Medem's film is a bleached-out beauty, hitting our most commanding human emotions – lust to love to grief to rage and back again – while only occasionally striking a wrong chord. – Kimberley Jones

"...the ball rolling). Still, Medem's film is a bleached-out beauty, hitting our most commanding human emotions -- lust to..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Human Nature

"...is a goofy and winning thing of sheer lunatic beauty, and although it never quite jells as well as..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Chop Suey

"...singer Frances Faye, and a showcase for the physical beauty of a young man named Peter Johnson, the model..."

Jan. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Steve Davis

From Hell

"...Heather Graham by his side, is a thing of beauty to behold, all dark shadows and much innovative camerawork..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Others

"...have a quiet little masterpiece of dark and chilling beauty. Shudders all around, and not a moment too soon...."

Aug. 10, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Jurassic Park III

"...and Lost World) to admire their sheer magnificence and beauty. These dinosaurs have evolved socially and vocally. It's proposed..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Fast and the Furious

"...sequences they're involved in, are things of sleek, shark-like beauty. Mitsubishi Eclipses, Toyota Supra Turbos, and unmentionably cool Tokyo..."

June 22, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Man Who Cried

"...else, The Man Who Cried is a thing of beauty. But then so is a cloud and I wouldn't..."

June 8, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Claim

"...Railroad Company and its affable chief surveyor, Dalglish (American Beauty's Wes Bentley). The first railroad to ever be built..."

June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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