Film Reviews

Mike Leigh’s last film was Vera Drake, a dark, visceral and foreboding look at (the lack of) abortion rights in 1950s England, and how one woman chose to act despite...

In modern gore, it’s usually the guys that have made the Saw films, or maybe Eli Roth of Hostel fame, that get the props as blood and guts masters. But...

In Role Models, Seann William Scott and Paul Rudd play a pair of slackers and energy drink spokesmen that through a reckless act of public endangerment discover that the true...

Realistically, there was no way that any sequel to Madagascarwas going to measure up to the artistic and technical accomplishments of Pixar’s WALL-E, but it’s nice to see that the...

The 22nd James Bond film is anything if not intriguing. The course began in Casino Royale is enthusiastically capitalized upon in Quantum of Solace as, for the first time, Her...

A lot has been made about The Duchess that sort of begins and ends with the comparisons between Georgiana Spencer Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, and her great-great-great-great-grandniece Diana Spencer, the...

Stupidity abounds in the new “thriller” Passengers, a tired old, cliché-filled romp through the netherworlds of creativity and netherworlds that are a little more literal. The basic problem with the...

The interesting thing about Clint Eastwood as a filmmaker is that he knows how to take time. His films are meticulously paced, but the impact of his deliberate timing can...

If Rachel Getting Married suffers from one thing it’s that it feels a little too much like we’re watching a family wedding unfold. The very documentary-style of directing employed by...

Considering what Kevin Smith’s been up against with promoting and releasing Zack and Miri Make a Porno, you’d think it was just short of Deep Throat it terms of smuttiness....