Moana

Set sail for Disney's gorgeous new adventure

"...dazzles the eye with an oceanic kaleidoscope of bioluminescent color, catchy songs, and a perfectly suited vocal cast. Who..."

Nov. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Miss Hokusai

The life of an artist through the eyes of his daughter

"...and printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, is a sumptuous tapestry of color, shadow, and light, a befitting tribute to the Edo..."

Oct. 28, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Too Late

Experimental neo-noir is held together by the magnificent John Hawkes

"...and sex-industry workers pop in and out, and lend color to the plot while convoluting it, often unnecessarily. Sometimes..."

March 25, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

London Has Fallen

This jingoistic blow-’em-up takes no prisoners

"...all known levels. “Them,” of course being people of color, killers driven to demonic deeds, in the end, by..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kung Fu Panda 3

Now a kung-fu master, the panda is no longer a grasshopper

"...is a visually stunning picture, a rhapsody of saturated color and contrasting texture, from the painstaking detail of coarse..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Girlhood

Being an adolescent girl of color in the working-class suburbs of Paris is no easy job

"...yet they also contend with being young women of color who face dead-end futures and few chances to escape..."

April 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Get Hard

Send this one directly to comedy jail

"...in his assumption that Darnell, being a person of color, is intimately familiar with prison life. Topical, interracial, fish-out-of-water..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Strange Magic

Woodland goblins, elves, and fairies go to war in this animated movie from LucasFilm Animation.

"...for the most part. Even the gorgeous hues that color the film (greens and indigos straight from a Tiffany..."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Listen Up Philip

The director of The Color Wheel is back with this film about a narcissistic and abrasive young novelist.

"...Director-screenwriter Perry (The Color Wheel) imbues the feature with a jazzy looseness that..."

Dec. 5, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dear White People

This idea-packed comedy pokes holes in the notion of a post-racial America.

"...Housing Act which had the effect of breaking the color barrier at the all-black campus house Armstrong/Parker, she runs..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Harmontown

Mad genius TV writer Dan Harmon (Community) embarks on a 20-city tour taping his popular podcast in front of live audiences.

"...Wayne White, 2012’s Beauty Is Embarrassing, Berkeley documents another color-outside-the-lines creative force, TV writer Dan Harmon (Community), as he..."

Oct. 24, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Book of Life

Dia de los Muertos provides a colorful and vivid background for this animated film.

"...Reel FX Creative Studios is spectacular, full of vibrant color and activity in every frame. The characters all have..."

Oct. 17, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mood Indigo

Michel Gondry's latest presents us with an elaborate yet handmade artifice that's thoroughly charming until its color drains away.

"...attention in high school French class. It’s such a colorful whirr of geegaws and doodads and other strange delights..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Belle

Inspired by a 1779 painting of two real-life cousins – one black, one white – Belle gives a fictionalized account of their lives.

"...Belle’s birthright and the perceived burden of her skin color in a country plumped up by slave-trade profits. Another..."

May 23, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rio 2

The animated blue macaw family takes a trip back to the Amazon.

"...bursting at the seams. All singing, all dancing, all color: Rio 2 is a modern, studio animation blockbuster spilling..."

April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Louis Black

Runner Runner

A Princeton student and online gambler gets entangled with the operation's devious mastermind in Costa Rica.

"...more nondescript than this: If Runner Runner were a color scheme, it would be beige, with an accent wall..."

Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Less a doc than a lyrical presentation of the cult actor and surprising song man.

"...Alternating between color footage and the genius interplay of startlingly lovely sequences..."

Sept. 27, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kon-Tiki

Real-life adventurer Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 trip across the Pacific on a raft is re-created in this beautifully lensed film.

"...The color blue dominates the filmmakers’ palette in Kon-Tiki: the azure..."

May 31, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Croods

Animated cave dwellers are stealth charmers.

"...That world is a riot of color and gonzo imagining, as if the animators took their..."

March 22, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Beyond the Black Rainbow

Visually striking but completely nuts, this filmmaking debut received a Special Jury Award for Boldness of Vision at last year's Fantastic Fest.

"...a surfeit of staggering images to lay on us. Color filters, bizarre compositions, and lighting distortions combine with the..."

June 8, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

New Work: Performances

Journeys in story, song, and dance with four outstanding women of color

"...such presentations to showcase new work by women of color. That's what makes Women & Their Work's program on..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Marvel's The Avengers

Excelsior! This Marvel adventure knocks it out of the universe.

"...real, for reel – from a scattered array of four-color offshoots and prequels to the biggest of the big..."

May 4, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Goon

Off-color, bloody, and hilarious, Goon is the best hockey comedy since Slap Shot.

"...Exuberantly off-color, bloody, and frequently laugh-'til-you-choke hilarious, Goon is the best..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Boy

Set on the eastern New Zealand coast in 1984, Boy is a wisp of a story, but originally told by the director of Eagle vs Shark.

"...yet both films are filled with compelling characters, situational color, knowing observations about youthful behavior, and quirky bits of..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Undefeated

This Oscar-winner for Best Documentary tells a rousing and heartwarming tale of a West Memphis high school football team overcoming the odds.

"...moral grit can drive someone to be tenacious, racially color-blind, and ultimately successful. But even though the film relies..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Potiche

Catherine Deneuve stars in this French comedy set in 1977 about a trophy wife.

"...and forced, though the film’s delightful performances and brilliant color palette see it through any rough patches. The 1977..."

April 22, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lincoln Lawyer

Matthew McConaughey is the titular lawyer who lands a high-profile case after a career spent defending dirtbags.

"...at it – but it's well-cast and well-shot, its color palette dominated by California's smog-sick, fervid yellows, and its..."

March 25, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Takers

This Los Angeles-set heist movie stars lots of well-muscled men.

"...hip-hop Heat, even aping Michael Mann's fondness for cool color palettes. Like Heat, the L.A.-based Takers takes great pains..."

Sept. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Iron Man 2

Despite a high tech sheen and an excellent but overstuffed cast, this sequel feels more like a setup for the upcoming Avengers movie than its own picture.

"...to bursting with almost 50 years of Stan Lee's four-color melodramatics, Iron Man 2, while no slouch in the..."

May 7, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Book of Eli

In a post-apocalyptic time, Denzel Washington is the lone man who carries the world's last remaining Bible.

"...has happened some 30 years prior and sucked the color out of the sky, most of the people from..."

Jan. 22, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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