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Wednesday, March 3,2010
Movie Reviews

Oscars Incoming

I send a report to my younger self

A letter to the past explains this year's Oscars to the 1980s: Don’t worry. I’m not writing to warn you about some relentless cyborg death-drone coming back through time to wreak havoc on your world because the machines have taken over. It’s true that the machines have taken over, but we’re actually pretty cool with it. And we even elected the death-drone as the governor of California.

Wednesday, February 24,2010
Movie Reviews

Get Over It

Some guys just don’t know when to quit.

Shutter Island is somewhat hobbled by our sense that Martin Scorsese is directing a little beneath his talents and slumming in the schlock-fest psychiatric thriller genre. Whether the film works for viewers will depend on their tolerance for films they know are playing mind games, and their willingness to wait to see what mind games, exactly, are being played.

Wednesday, February 17,2010
Movie Reviews

Hold On

That Evening Sun burns brightest at its center

Julia Goldberg

Unlike the short story upon which it is based, That Evening Sun begins at the retirement home where Abner Meecham (Hal Holbrook) has lived for several months. A few quick shots of elderly people dissolutely playing cards or taking their medication are all it takes to establish that life here is no life at all.

Wednesday, February 10,2010
Movie Reviews

Easy Rider

Crazy Heart doesn’t try too hard, thank God

After finishing a two-night gig in Santa Fe, country legend Bad Blake lounges in the cab of his pickup truck, waiting for the reporter who’s going to interview him. When she arrives, Jean Craddock apologizes for missing his show, but does he have any idea how hard it is to find a babysitter at this time of night? “I get off work at one o’clock in the morning,” he drawls. “I know how hard it is to find everything.”

Wednesday, February 3,2010
Movie Reviews

Lifetime Original

Heavy-handed and name-droppy, Pippa is OK

That vaguely hypocritical contradiction inherent in the public release of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee seems appropriate for the self-discovering and coyly self-revealing protagonist of writer-director Rebecca Miller’s adaptation of her own novel. From a few different angles, Miller shows us how settling down and settling in are just other ways of becoming unsettled.

Wednesday, January 27,2010
Movie Reviews

Viral Cure

Harrison Ford yells around the clock

If you want to see a movie about a family triumphing against the odds and glowing slightly, you are unlikely to do much better than Extraordinary Measures. If someone who has sex with you wants to see a movie about a family triumphing against the odds and glowing slightly, at least you’ll have an angry Harrison Ford to watch, and that helps a lot.

Wednesday, January 20,2010
Movie Reviews

Dark and Static

The Lovely Bones takes many roads to nowhere

If anything seemed like a sure thing, it was the film adaptation of The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold’s mega best seller—it remained on The New York Times hardback best seller list for more than a year—directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson, helmsman of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and, apropos of the dark subject of The Lovely Bones, Heavenly Creatures.

Wednesday, January 13,2010
Movie Reviews

It's All Been Done

Reduce, reuse, Revolt

I don’t want to be one of those alarmist film critics always telling you how to live but, seriously, we are rapidly depleting the world’s supply of teenage sex comedies. If we don’t stop soon, there may be no boner jokes left for our children’s children.

Wednesday, January 6,2010
Movie Reviews

Head in the Clouds

George Clooney gets high by downsizing

When you live above the clouds, the forecast is always sunny. So that’s where George Clooney’s Up in the Air hero chooses to exist: in a mile-high club accessed by frequent-flyer platinum cards. As a means to this lifestyle, he soothingly executes mass layoffs for cubicle farms, confiscating the key-cards of the newly fired on their way out the door.

Wednesday, December 23,2009
Movie Reviews

Long and Winding

The Road is also very gray and brown

At last: The long-delayed, ambivalently anticipated, Viggo Mortensen-intensive adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about a man and his young son wandering through a glumly gritty post-apocalyptic world, opens in Santa Fe. And just in time to kick off the holiday season!

 
 
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