 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" The centerpiece of An Education is the breakout performance of young Carey Mulligan. She is enchanting, and almost convincing as the teenage Jenny, though she can't completely obscure the (justified) suspicion that she's in her twenties and old enough f"
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"Why are quality pros like Howard and Hanks involved in this enterprise? Do they need the money? Angels and Demons is sure to make plenty. But their artistic souls will do hard time in purgatory for it."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" Writer-director Robert D. Siegel grew up listening to callers like Paul on The FAN, New York City's all-sports radio, and he gives us a bizarrely sympathetic portrait of a guy who is as devout and as obsessive as any religious fanatic."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"Campion, who won fans with The Piano (1993) and lost them with the dismal In the Cut (2003) here returns to the top of her form."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"In traditional terms, this is hardly a film at all. It's more like a bootlegged YouTube video."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"The Cove is guerrilla journalism at its best. Structured and paced by director Louie Psihoyos as a thriller/caper movie, it brings audience-grabbing cinematic conventions to work in telling its story of dolphin genocide"
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"It's all up there on the screen in this impassioned, exhilarating documentary. They want to dance for you. It's what they did for love."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"The good parts of this movie are often wonderful, but Apatow never finds the rhythm to keep it going. It lurches from inspiration to inspiration, but always manages to muddy its feet in mediocrity in between, as it drags on toward the two-and-a-half-hour"
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" The sense of authenticity in this movie is palpable, but the scenes are sometimes so dark and so impenetrable that it takes a herculean effort to keep up with who's who and what's going on."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" This is not a rare movie, but it does have a warm red center. It's likable, and its appeal grows as it recovers from a shaky start and finds its footing."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" The film takes flight on the brilliant title performance by Tony Servillo (Gomorrah), who plays Andreotti like a mummified Alec Guinness, as if encased in layers of plaster of Paris."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"The International is strewn with wild improbability, but that hardly deters from its appeal."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"There are cycles of inspiration and rebirth, but the barbed promise of the early going loses its way in choices aimed at sentimentality rather than, as Harvey Kurtzman memorably put it, humor in a jugular vein."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" Petzoid takes the Cain themes of lust and duplicity and twists them into a reflection on modern Germany, where nationalism and loyalties and identity and economics are jumbled and thrown into confusion."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"Hamer creates a quirky, beguiling, and very funny mood piece that reflects on age, adventure, uncertainty, and humanity. Owe gives the character of Horten an off-center dignity that will suggest comparisons to Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton"
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" Curtis's movie is loosely based on the historical truths of the time, but it isn't meant as a documentary, a rockumentary, or even a docucomedy. It's just a hell of a lot of fun."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"In the hands of a director more suited to the material The Soloist might have been a deeply moving experience. Here, we know something important is being played out before us, and there are times when it hits home with force. But in their exercise of dram"
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"n Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas's gently provocative rumination on family and possessions, a trio of siblings wrestles with the problem of what to do with the old homestead once Mother is gone."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to the master) is best known for his up-market horror films (Cure, Retribution, and many others.) Here he is dealing with a horror of a different sort: the meltdown of the Japanese economy and the collapse of the soc"
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
"The most remarkable revelation of the movie is its subject's thoughtful, reflective eloquence and unflinching self-perception...Tyson may or may not be entirely who he says he is, but he's probably not who we thought he was, either."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2009) |
|
" Bichlbaum and Bonanno don't just try to make the world a better place. They treat it as if it already were."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"If you like your women half-naked, strung upside-down from pulleys, and sliced like deli meat, this is the movie for you. Whether the victims are more tortured than the plot is a serious question."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"It makes an urgent case for the futility of most wars, which serve immediate political goals that afterward don't seem terribly important."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Good solid far-fetched multiplex action-adventure fare in the Bondian mode, with awe-inspiring technology and just enough moral philosophizing laced through it to give the mind a little something to chew on."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"There are shivers of humor from time to time, but the mask in place here is the mask of tragedy."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
" Eastwood, who has made fine movies in recent years, has got hold of a humdinger of a story. But he's too detached and lazy here."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries"
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"But ultimately it's a fascinating, sometimes exhilarating movie that seems to make a genuine contact with the classroom, and shows us an educational system struggling, and managing, to survive."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Shanley, who has not directed a feature film since his maiden misadventure almost twenty years ago with Joe Versus the Volcano, has neither the skill nor the perspective to turn his Broadway powerhouse into a movie of similar punch."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"With his fierce, impeccable craft Kingsley shows us around David's tortured, preening, desperate psyche."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"If it doesn't rise to the level of It's a Wonderful Life, it's because Marc Abrams is no Frank Capra. And after all, this isn't about angels, it's about windshield wipers."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Lamorisse's film was a third of this length, and was lighter than air. Hou's is about the weight of air itself on a muggy day, and whether that sustains over 113 minutes will be between each viewer and his attention span."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Langella inhabits the pouchy skin of the man he's playing, until soon any meaningful distinction between actor and subject disappears."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"The great Serbian actor Rade Serbedzija gives Fugitive Pieces its heart."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"If Mt. Rushmore were to make a movie, it would probably look a lot like a Clint Eastwood movie."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Though its quiet pastoral charms may not change your life the way they do Antoine's, you'll find the scenery comforting, the humanity reassuring, and the story appealing."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"The movie is filled with wonderful moments, set pieces of absurdity, and a richness of humor. But underneath, Menzel and Hraba have a wry and sometimes painful story to tell of the history of their country in the 20th century."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
" This is a thriller, though, in the sense that it is a thrill to watch Scott-Thomas give one of the finest performances of the year."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Eran Riklis, who directed and co-wrote with Suha Arraf (they also collaborated on The Syrian Bride), has made a compelling movie that takes its strength from the ground-level picture it gives of the human aspect of the problems in that part of the world."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"In this exhilarating, palm-moistening documentary by British filmmaker James Marsh (Wisconsin Death Trip), the twin towers are back to celebrate one of their finest moments."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Sachs combines humor, suspense, and twists of plot that keep the ground shifting under our feet."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Lee is a filmmaker who, through talent, accomplishment, and a constant working of the refs in the Hollywood system, has earned autonomy over his films. I'm all for artistic freedom, but here he could have used a bit of oversight."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"When we think of the fearsome Genghis Khan, we don't picture him as ever having been a little boy. But he must have been, and that is where this grand throwback to the sweeping historical epics of yesteryear takes up the Great Khan's story."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"What it lacks in subtlety and intelligence it makes up in violence, brutishness, and hackneyed story lines. These are qualities best enjoyed at home."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Maher is essentially and professionally a comic, and the measure of this movie is not just the thoughts it provokes but the laughs it generates."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"If Revolutionary Road had been filmed back in 1961, when the novel came out, it would have been timely and powerful."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2008) |
|
"Lelouch is now 71 years old, and I bet he's never had as much fun with a film. Roman de Gare threads plots and characters and twists together like a demented weaver."
[movie review] |
|
Film.com |
|
|
