Inside Job: Forever Blowing Bubbles
“It is impossible to get a man to understand something when his paycheck depends on him not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair
The villains of...
Morning Glory: Happy Talk
A romantic comedy aiming to be the Broadcast News for our generation, Morning Glory boasts a wealth of talent both in front of and...
Due Date Past Due
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: There’s this tightly wound business guy who has to get across the country to be with his...
For Colored Girls: “Sing a Black Girl’s Song”
The mere existence of For Colored Girls is encouraging, though it would be unremarkable if we lived in a better world. African-American actresses have...
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...
Rutherford, Yager Make Changes
Side by side, Burt Rutherford and Tim Yager look like a mismatched comedy duo, best friends who couldn’t look any more different. The two...
Clint and Woody Have Psychic Visions
In their latest movies, Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen are thinking about the great beyond. Of course, it isn’t unusual that filmmakers aged 80...
I’ve Gone Bright Red
Plush and inoffensive, Red is based on a relatively obscure graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, but it bears very little resemblance...
Nowhere Boy: It’s Real Love
It’s mesmerizing to watch Aaron Johnson in Nowhere Boy. The extraordinarily pretty 20-year-old has been performing on screen since his childhood, but the native...
Driving the Limit
You could hear the tiniest stirrings of something on the internet about Cars. Not necessarily a backlash but something smaller: criticism of the movie’s...
