In the immediate aftermath of the passing of his wife, Helen, Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) writes the African child he is sponsoring one of his long, confessional letters that serve as the reason-de-voice over for …

Red Tails is an earnest, straight forward, somewhat generic, but easily likable war-action movie that will probably be both overpraised and overcritized due to it being produced by George Lucas. 

A lot of things change in ten years.

End of year lists are about quality, not quantity, so I try to eschew comments about the strength or weakness of a given year based on how hard it may be to fill out the bottom …

Making the Boys feels at times like it is seven potentially great documentaries struggling to emerge from one good one.

Being Elmo is good.
It doesn’t matter, as one of my colleagues is fond of saying, how you want to parse that.