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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Film Reviews

Film Reviews
Mother of mercy, is this the end of Gwen Stacy? Emma Stone hangs by a thread in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Turning Point

When I reviewed the reboot of Spider-Man two years ago, I said that while I couldn’t find anything terribly wrong with it, I couldn’t...

Unknown Artist

This story began in winter 2007, when real estate agent John Maloof, a habitué of flea markets and storage auctions, bought a box of...
Scarlett Johansson strips down for her latest victim in Under the Skin.

Study in Scarlett

Scarlett Johansson is naked in Under the Skin. Remarkably, she’s never done that before in a movie. Yet there’s more to it than that,...
Jonas Armstrong wears a Nazi uniform to save Jews in Walking With the Enemy.

Smart Elek

As the Nazi reign of terror swept across Europe, many people in various walks of life found ways of standing against it and making...
Johnny Depp (on monitors) welcomes Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, and Rebecca Hall to his afterlife in Transcendence.

Logging Off

Great news if you were looking for an extended, unfunny parody of Christopher Nolan’s movies, because Transcendence is out this week. This good-looking, arid,...
Sky (middle) and her cubs forage for clams on a beach in Bears.

Bears Looking Into

If you have small children, by now you probably know the drill with these new Disneynature documentaries: lots of breathtaking photography and nothing that...
Denis Leary and Kevin Costner have a tense discussion in the Cleveland Browns’ front office on Draft Day.

No. 1 Pick

I heard other people pitching Draft Day as the NFL version of Moneyball. Certainly this movie is going for the same thing as Bennett...
Iko Uwais and Cecep Arif Rahman go at each other with curved blades in a restaurant kitchen in The Raid 2.

Power Raid

When I reviewed The Raid: Redemption two years ago, I asked, “When was the last time you saw a badass Indonesian film?” Many people...
Russell Crowe plays Noah as a B.C. eco-terrorist.

Noah: Biblical Match Maker

Has Darren Aronofsky long held a desire to make a Lord of the Rings movie? Because Noah bears a lot of stylistic similarities to...

Blazing a Trail

Jasmin Jandreau was born in Los Angeles, but, she said, she’s definitely a “Texas girl.” Indeed, the actor grew up in Richardson and graduated...