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Sept. 16, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Nine Lives
Kevin Spacey gets trapped inside the body of his family's cat
"...tries to use a computer to reveal his human identity, he remarks, “Ironically, I could really use a mouse..."
Aug. 12, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis
The Brothers Grimsby
Sacha Baron Cohen's spy comedy goes awry
"...period. Let him get on with assuming another obscure identity, then let him loose on the presidential candidates. Now..."
March 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Phoenix
In postwar Germany, a woman with a reconfigured face reclaims her identity
"...Identity is the theme that burns through the heart of..."
Sept. 4, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
The Age of Adaline
Romantic hokum, well done
"...a career fugitive, establishing a routine of renewing her identity and general emotional detachment every decade...."
April 24, 2015 Movie Review by William Goss
Horns
Daniel Radcliffe sprouts horns in this spiky fable about the devil in all of us.
"...if you think about it.) But once the killer’s identity is revealed, this allegory about the perils of perception..."
Oct. 31, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Ida
Concisely but with great depth, this Polish film explores questions of individual and national identity.
"...this stark and piercing film set in 1960s Poland, identity is something to be grappled with by individuals and..."
June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
We Are the Best!
Lukas Moodysson gives us a captivating portrait of 13-year-old proto-punk girls in 1982 Sweden.
"...it informs every aspect of their still-developing senses of identity. Written and directed by Lukas Moodysson (already alert to..."
June 13, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Dom Hemingway
Jude Law, all piss-and-vinegar as the titular safe-cracker, can't light the fuse of this dud.
"...a mantra, as if to remind himself of his identity, which makes sense in a movie that doesn’t really..."
April 18, 2014 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Stories We Tell
Canadian filmmaker and actress Sarah Polley goes looking for her biological father and comes homes with a wise and poetic documentary about the nature of truth.
"...a very personal yet inventive inquiry into the true identity of her biological father, as well as the many..."
June 7, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Arthur Newman
Colin Firth and Emily Blunt star in this road picture about two people who try to escape their identities but fall in love and learn to accept their responsibilities.
"...films charts a voyage having to do with personal identity and self-awareness. Mid-level manager Wallace Avery (Firth) is tired..."
May 10, 2013 Movie Review by Louis Black
Starbuck
A sperm donor learns 20 years after the fact that he is the father of 533 children in this mild, French-Canadian comedy.
"...offspring have filed a class-action suit to learn the identity of the man responsible for their Y chromosomes, a..."
April 19, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Mansome
Will Arnett and Jason Bateman are our guides in this Morgan Spurlock documentary that looks at men's relationship with their body hair in contemporary America.
"...and fundamentally more important issues of machismo and male identity are glossed over. Most of what Spurlock offers up..."
May 18, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Family Matters
Exploring identity at the Austin Jewish Film Festival
"...The subject of Jewish identity may seem like an obvious topic for a Jewish-themed..."
March 23, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Albert Nobbs
This melancholy picture is distinguished by Glenn Close's vanishing act in the titular role.
"...say to you about issues of gender, class, and identity depends entirely on what you bring to it. In..."
Jan. 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Dream House
Despite an impressive cast and director, Dream House is a confounding mess.
"...into a rote "Who's crazy here?" exercise in memory, identity, and murder...."
Oct. 7, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Take Me Home Tonight
In this Eighties-set romance, a guy spends an unforgettable evening chasing the woman of his high school dreams.
"...into the store, Matt quickly devises an impressive alternate identity for himself, which pays off when she mentions getting..."
March 11, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Martin Lawrence revisits his FBI undercover alter-ego, Big Momma.
"...Forced by unlikely circumstances (again) to assume the floral-print identity of the wisecracking Big Momma, the agent this time..."
Feb. 25, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
For Colored Girls
Tyler Perry tackles Ntozake Shange's beloved play.
"...and directing Ntozake Shange’s self-described “choreopoem” about black women’s identity – becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In his first film..."
Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Megamind
This animated film is vibrant and exceedingly clever, but also a rather slight thing for such mega-sized proportions.
"...an alien who was orphaned young and crafted an identity in counterpoint to another foundling who fell to Metro..."
Nov. 5, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Easy A
The Scarlet Letter is refitted for the app age in this winning high school comedy.
"...social insecurity, unlikely camaraderie and stutter-stepped formation of adult identity. Stone is, quite irrefutably, a knockout as the husky-voiced..."
Sept. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
La Mission
Benjamin Bratt plays a reformed convict and recovering alcoholic in this film written and directed by his brother Peter Bratt.
"...Jesse, however, harbors the secret of his true sexual identity, and when macho Che unwittingly discovers that his only..."
May 14, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Oceans
The makers of Winged Migration are behind this documentary about the creatures that live in the waters covering nearly two-thirds of the Earth's surface.
"...Winged Migration, narrator Pierce Brosnan wonders aloud about the identity – no, the essence – of the substance that..."
April 30, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Last Song
Miley Cyrus steps out of her Hannah Montana comfort zone to play a rebellious teen in this Nicholas Sparks melodrama.
"...Chaikin. Cyrus waves goodbye to her Hannah Montana tween-star identity with The Last Song, the latest Nicholas Sparks-penned romance..."
April 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
New York, I Love You
The central thesis in this ominibus of short films is that New York is not its landmarks or its landscape; New York is its people.
"...or female perspective – is a surface preoccupation with identity; they hang on “gotcha!” moments that presume, well, presumptions..."
Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
The Edge of Heaven
This Turkish film is a transgenerational, transborder microcosm of modern cultural melding.
"...his 2004 film Head-On, in which confusion over cultural identity didn’t just define lives; it burned them up from..."
Sept. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Roman de Gare
Until its piffling ending, Frenchman Claude Lelouch delivers a film that's intellectually cagey, potentially romantic, and, above all, an entertaining puzzle box.
"...provocative and trés française musing on the nature of identity in both the real and reel world. It's contemporary..."
June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
My Brother Is an Only Child
This Italian film is a coming-of-age story about a young man who – like the era he was born into – has no idea how to come of age, except by fits and starts.
"...a badge of distinction, or at least proof of identity. He greets each change of loyalty with the religious..."
May 16, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Planet B-Boy
The global revival of breakdancing is the subject of this documentary, which shows off the mad skillz of competitors around the world.
"...I started breakdancing, I became more aware of my identity and open to other ways of thinking." This from..."
April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Badland
Badland is a well-meaning but pointlessly overblown drama about an American vet with post-traumatic stress disorder.
"...his surviving daughter and seeking redemption and a false identity in a new town. It’s a tough sell, and..."
