Movie Reviews 
Review: Speed Racer(1)
* * * 1/2
Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman. Written by Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski, from the animated series by Tatsuo Yoshida. Directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski. Rated PG. 135 minutes. Warner Brothers.
Speed Racer, the much-anticipated visual extravaganza from The Wachowski Brothers, is an […]
Review: What Happens in Vegas
Film: * ½
Diaz: * * *
Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Lake Bell, Rob Corddry, Queen Latifah, Treat Williams, Dennis Farina, Dennis Miller. Written by Dana Fox. Directed by Tom Vaughan. Rated PG-13. 99 minutes. 20th Century Fox.
As lowbrow comedies go, What Happens in Vegas is neck and neck […]
Review: Made of Honor
*
Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Sydney Pollack, Kathleen Quinlan. Screenplay by Adam Sztykiel, Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont. Directed by Paul Weiland. Rated PG-13. 101 minutes. Sony Pictures.
A dreadful film. Made of Honor, the paper-thin and shopworn new romantic comedy about an unrepentant bachelor realizing […]
Review: Iron Man
* * * 1/2
Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges, Terrence Howard. Written by Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, based on the Marvel Comics character. Directed by Jon Favreau. Rated PG-13. 126 minutes.
In Iron Man, the summer’s first big action movie, Robert Downey Jr. delivers what just […]
Review: Chapter 27
Unconcerned with making larger statements about our obsession with celebrity or the cultural impact of Lennon’s death, Chapter 27 isn’t so much a bad picture as a pointless one marching to a foregone conclusion.
Review: Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall has many healthy laughs and a solid ensemble as the latest entry geek makes good silliness currently revolutionizing the American movie comedy.
Review: The Visitor
* * * *
Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira. Written and directed by Tom McCarthy. Rated PG-13. 108 minutes. Overture Films.
The Visitor, a superb new drama charting the personal awakening of an aging college professor who unexpectedly befriends a pair of young illegal immigrants, is a moving character study of adults […]
Review: Stop-Loss
* * * 1/2
Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Victor Rasuk, Timothy Olyphant. Written by Kimberly Peirce and Mark Richard. Directed by Kimberly Peirce. Rated R. 112 minutes. Paramount Pictures, MTV Films.
Stop-Loss, Kimberly Peirce’s moving anti-war polemic is a story of patriotism torn asunder, and not by any axis of evil. In […]
Review: Never Back Down
* * *
Sean Faris, Djimon Honsou, Cam Gigandet, Amber Heard, Evan Peters, Leslie Hope. Written by Jeff Wadlow and Chris Houty. Directed by Jeff Wadlow. Rated PG-13. 106 minutes. Summit Entertainment, LLC.
Jake Tyler (Sean Faris) is one angry young man at the start of Never Back Down, a teenaged coming-of-age picture in which an […]
Review: Funny Games
* * 1/2
Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet, Devon Gearheart, Siobhan Fallon Hogan. Written and directed by Michael Haneke. Rated R. 112 minutes. Warner Independent Pictures.
There will not be a more upsetting film this year than Funny Games, director Michael Haneke’s shot-by-shot remake of his controversial 1997 Austrian tale of a family in […]
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