<em>Big Miracle</em> (Kwapis, 2012)
February 3, 2012 – 12:01 am | No Comment

Big Miracle is the kind of film you dread getting assigned to write about as a film critic, you go to by yourself because none of your friends will join you, you growl through the …

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The Other Guys (McKay, 2010)
August 6, 2010 – 1:38 am | No Comment
<em>The Other Guys</em> (McKay, 2010)

Here’s the most important thing you need to know about The Other Guys: it is funny.

The Kids Are All Right (Cholodenko, 2010)
August 2, 2010 – 8:58 pm | One Comment
<em>The Kids Are All Right</em> (Cholodenko, 2010)

For the past couple of years I’ve been sort of whining, complaining, and ranting about how I want to see a movie that “just happens to be gay” (I’ve said that a thousand times). What …

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev, 2009)
July 23, 2010 – 3:43 pm | No Comment
<em>The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo</em> (Oplev, 2009)

This review contains plot spoilers.
Anyone who reads this blog with any kind of regularity will no doubt have noticed that there are a lot more positive reviews than negative ones. That’s not a matter of …

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977)
July 23, 2010 – 1:33 pm | No Comment
<em>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</em> (Spielberg, 1977)

When is calling something a “spectacle” a slam? How do Spielberg’s films and those of John Ford rankle some viewers in the same way? What about this film is claimed to make Spielberg very uncomfortable …

Predators (Antal, 2010)
July 15, 2010 – 4:21 pm | 3 Comments
<em>Predators</em> (Antal, 2010)

No one, I think, ever looked smart reviewing a movie like Predators.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Simoneau, 2007)
July 14, 2010 – 5:42 pm | No Comment
<em>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee</em> (Simoneau, 2007)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was one of the books of my young adolescence: everyone had to read it and everyone had an opinion about it. Published in 1970 to great popular acclaim (it …