Critics

Cloud Atlas

If a reviewer falls asleep and then wakes up and can’t take it anymore and leaves half way through the movie, can they still write about it? Hells, yeah!

This is what happened to me while attempting to wrap my head around Cloud Atlas, possibly the most expensive, unnecessary…

Batman: Review Of A Movie I Ain’t Gonna See

And it’s not because of the massacre in Aurora, but because Christopher Nolan’s…

Bernie

Jack Black gives the performance of his career so far in this excellent film by Richard Linklater, based on an incredible true story about Bernie…

Wanderlust

I laughed plenty.
Comedies always get the short end of the stick. They are held to far more exacting standards than the insufferable, weepy, heroic Hollywood fare that gets a pass because it is serious, drecky drivel. This movie, directed by David Wain, produced by Judd Apatow, and written by Wain and Ken…

Oscars: Award Bathos

Baños de pureza is a phrase in Spanish that means “baths of purity” and is used to denote someone who likes to slather…

Contagion

I’m with the Japanese. I believe that at this point in human history we can relegate the hand shake to an ancient custom. We live in a time where you shake someone’s hand and could get sick. So why don’t we all greet strangers with a respectful little bow? According to Contagion, we could save ourselves a lot…

Drive

I don’t know whether this noirish car chase movie should be taken seriously. There’s much in it that has got to be tongue in cheek, although it’s hard to tell whether director Nicolas Winding Refn and screenwriter Hossein Amini are dead serious or joking. Either way, if we can’t be sure, something’s not working…

Blue Valentine

According to Richard Brody from The New Yorker:

Blue Valentine is a blend of a TV commercial and an acting…