The Tree of Life: Pictures at an Exhibition
The fifth film in 38 years by reclusive Texas auteur Terrence Malick is The Tree of Life, the polarizing film that drew boos and...
Cowboy Up With Buck
Buck is a close study about a horseman and his methods, so no wonder it has widened out beyond the specialty art-house theaters here...
A Better Life, Mi Hijo
I remember watching Gregory Nava’s drama El Norte for my high-school Spanish class. I thought about that film while I was watching A Better...
Transformers: Cock-Eyed Optimus
Hey, I’m back! I know. I missed the second Transformers movie. Sorry, everyone. But I’m here now to write about the third installment, Transformers:...
Adolescent Dramas
There’s never a shortage of films about coming of age. Everyone comes of age, after all, and such films can often be done cheaply,...
Super 8: Lights, Camera, Alien!
I hate to be the dissenting voice on a movie everybody else seems to love, especially when I don’t think the movie’s bad at...
Mr. Popper’s Penguins Flop
Loosely based on Florence Atwater’s 1938 children’s book of the same name, Mr. Popper’s Penguins never completely gels. But that doesn’t stop Jim Carrey...
Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris
So I’ve now seen two Woody Allen movies, the first being 1973’s Sleeper. I saw that when I was in high school, when the...
Potiche Power
Between them, Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu, the stars of Potiche, have a whopping four wins and 27 nominations for the César Awards, France’s...
Superpowers Falter in the New X-Men
Well, crap. I had such high hopes for X-Men: First Class. The fifth entry in this loosely connected series features the return of Bryan...
