Santa Fe Reporter - Movie Reviews

All's Well That Ends Well - Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing is delightful

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Really, it sounds terrible. William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, updated to the present day...

Snow White and the Six Dwarfs - This Blancanieves fights bulls

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
It looks like a bleak life for Carmen (Macarena García). She loses her mother and her bullfighter father...

Man of Meh - Man of Steel’s superhero gets a super dull movie

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Man of Steel makes clear Christopher Nolan is limited. He needs real world-characters who can supply real-world solutions, even if those real world characters are fighting The Joker.

Drowned in Dick Jokes - Get your non-stop supply of semen in 'This Is the End'

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
So just who is the intended audience for This Is the End? Seth Rogen fans.

Love and Resentment - Celine and Jesse return in 'Before Midnight'

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Nine years after Before Sunset, Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse (Ethan Hawke) return for a glimpse of their relationship.

Alas, Mum, We Hardly Knew Ye - Sarah Polley’s 'Stories We Tell' explores a family mystery

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
How does one confront a family mystery that everyone seems to know the answer to...

Made an Opera Movie for Everyone - ‘Becoming Traviata’ is a welcome surprise

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
For someone whose knowledge of opera is limited to two Bugs Bunny vehicles...

Washed Up at 27 - 'Frances Ha' is charming and funny

Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Frances Ha is a lot of things. It’s good (near great, even).

Convoluted Nonsense - 'Midnight’s Children' is simply bad

Tue, 28 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Now that Midnight’s Children is out, it’s easy to understand why there aren’t more Salman Rushdie movies...

Strap In, Hold Tight - Fast & Furious 6 is stupid and really, really fun [yay!]

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Wow. Where does one begin? The insipid dialogue? Paul Walker’s non-presence? A plot that makes almost no sense? Stunts that defy the laws of physics?

Flesh! That's All That Matters! - So says Renoir in the aptly named Renoir [meh]

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
“Flesh!” shouts Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) at his son, Jean (Vincent Rottiers).

It ends - So the ads for The Hangover Part III tell us [ok]

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
The final (?) chapter in what’s become The Hangover Saga serves up a different plot from its predecessors.

The Reluctant Audience - It’s easy to see where 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' is going [meh]

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
One day Riz Ahmed will be cast in a movie that’s worthy of his talent.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s Father Yod! - Yet another cult in 'The Source Family' [meh]

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel

The Source Family is a cult. Or it was a cult.

Whiskey-Soaked Redemption - Ken Loach tackles comedy with lots of drama in 'The Angels’ Share' [ok]

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel

Has there been a comedy with this many ass kickings since the Coen brothers’ Miller’s Crossing?

The Sky is Falling! Or Something! - No, really, 'It’s a Disaster' [ok]

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
It’s not often that movies subvert expectations.

Summer Has Begun - Shit blows up in 'Iron Man 3'

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
After two Iron Man movies, The Avengers and cameos in other Marvel pictures, it’s hard to tell what Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) has left to prove.

How’d He Do? - Koch on 'Koch' [ok]

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
For those of us who were either too young to remember New York City mayor Ed Koch’s three terms or just didn’t live in New York then,

Calling Conspiracy Theorists - 'Room 237' is for those who own tinfoil hats [barf]

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Reader, you’re about to see the most hateful review I’ve committed to print and the interwebs.

Nope - ‘To the Wonder’ is barftastic [barf]

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
To the executives at Magnolia Pictures: