Movie Review: A Separation
The much-deserving winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture (in a precedent-making move, it was also nominated for Best Screenplay, the first time a foreign film has won a nomination...
View ArticleMovie Review: Friends With Kids
Friends with Kids is one of those high concept romantic comedies that posits a Big Life Question—in this case: can a couple have a baby together and keep the romance?—and then spends the next 90...
View ArticleMovie Review: Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jeff is a jobless 30-year-old slacker man-child who does indeed live in the basement of his mother’s house. He is an expert at marijuana smoke rings, daytime television and pickup basketball but whines...
View ArticleMovie Review: Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
Director Lasse Hallstrom (best known for My Life as a Dog and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) is a man unafraid of heartwarming, and his latest, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, is shameless. The big fish...
View ArticleMovie Review: Damsels in Distress
Watching Damsels in Distress, director Whit Stillman’s much anticipated first feature in thirteen years, was for me something akin to seeing an old college flame again after a similar interval. The old...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
From the blowsy, cutesy, painfully unfunny trailer for this film, I went into the screening with eyes half averted, dreading the sight of some of my favorite British film actors pandering to the...
View ArticleMovie Review: What to Expect When You’re Expecting
War has been said to be 99% tedium interspersed with 1% pure terror. And so it is with pregnancy, childbirth and baby rearing, only thankfully (else who would do it?), in these pursuits there are also...
View ArticleMovie Review: Madagascar 3
The beloved former Central Park Zoo denizens and their Antarctic penguin friends who comprise the billion dollar Madagascar franchise are back, this time in 3D. As if that’s not enough to ensure a...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Oranges
I should be a millionaire right now. Thirty-five minutes into this purported suburban romantic comedy, I muttered to my companion, “I’ll bet you a million dollars this movie was written by a couple of...
View ArticleMovie Review: Life of Pi
It’ll be interesting to see how audiences who haven’t read Life of Pi, Yann Martel’s 2001 novel respond to director Ang Lee’s vision of the colorful tale. Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel is a...
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