Knight and Day: Up in the Air
I’m not in the habit of using the word “piffle.” Yet that sprang to mind as I was watching Knight and Day, and the...
Conviction Has Courage, Lacks Craft
Hilary Swank stars in Conviction as a woman who launches a more or less single-handed assault on the legal system, and this suffocating, curiously...
Oh, God! Book II
The biggest laugh in the 2003 comedy Bruce Almighty didn’t come from the movie’s star, Jim Carrey.
It came from a then-little-known Steve Carell, playing...
How Ya Get So Fly
Jason Reitman has now directed three films, and so far the most famous is his second one, Juno. I suspect we'll look back on...
Blood Sausage
I’ll bet that relatively few people have ever watched a movie while sitting in one of the locations where it was shot.
That happened...
The Drop: Streetlight People
It’s likely that the late James Gandolfini’s performance in The Drop will be lauded in tearfully hyperbolic fashion, maybe even to the point where...
Creature Feature
Your dose of cartoon escapism for this week: Monsters vs. Aliens. Between my reviews of Coraline last month and Journey to the Center of...
Cosmic Dust
If you were to drop in at any point during The Golden Compass and watch only 30 seconds of it, you'd probably think the...
Splinter Cell
A satisfyingly little thriller in danger of getting lost at the multiplex, Traitor works better if you haven't seen the TV spots. Don Cheadle...
The Bali/Julia Project: Eat Pray Love
I read Elizabeth Gilbert’s polarizing memoir Eat, Pray, Love and found it as annoying as many others did, though I couldn’t help but wonder...
