Reviews

[Review] Lone Survivor

In its best moments, Lone Survivor, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg, is a lean, mean thrill machine reminiscent of something like Black Hawk D...

[Review] Grudge Match

Someone had the brilliant idea of putting Rocky Balboa and Jake LaMotta in the ring together at the ripe old comedic age of seventy and their Hollywood surrogat...

[Review] August: Osage County

Performances aside, August: Osage County mostly directs itself. In adapting his own Pulitzer-Prize winning play, Tracy Letts has made a compressed-but-extremely...

[Review] The Selfish Giant

A contemporary fable thematically adapted from an Oscar Wilde short story and inspired by the world writer/director Clio Barnard entered while filming her docum...

[Review] All the Light in the Sky

All the Light in the Sky, the latest film from Joe Swanberg, brings us back to his closed world of film festivals, recruiting filmmaker pals like Ti West and So...

[Review] The Wolf of Wall Street

At one relatively indeterminate point in The Wolf of Wall Street's lengthy, fuzzy chronology -- 150 minutes? six years? -- a plane explodes, hurtling the burned...

[Review] Jack, Jules, Esther & Me

I was about twenty minutes into Jack, Jules, Esther & Me when worry struck. Centered around two best friends from disparate neighborhoods/social classes in ...

[Review] Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

Yes, the rumors are true; the legend of Ron Burgundy continues, and if it’s not an unexpected journey, it not so unexpectedly utilizes some Journey songs along ...

[Review] Hours

Paul Walker, who will forever be remembered as an action star, is an interesting choice to lead Eric Heisserer’s Hours, a drama with elements that seem borrowed...

[Review] Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas

Guess who’s coming to dinner? It’s Madea and Larry the Cable Guy. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas is another fascinating trainwreck of a Tyler Perry film. Like ...