Wrestling for Jesus (Clarke, 2011)
When asked to describe his film, director Nathan Clarke said in an interview, he likes to say it is "everything you expect from the title and everything you don't."
Author: kenmorefield
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Garbo: The Spy (Roch, 2009)
Garbo: The Spy is a sometimes surprising, sometimes amusing, always engaging documentary about a subject that most Americans paradoxically have heard lots but know relatively little about: espionage.
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The Thing ( van Heijningen, Jr., 2011)
I don't say that it was a poorly conceived or executed horror film. It certainly seemed competent and, for all I know, it may very well be more skillfully done than most horror films. I just mean that I found it more disgusting than scary.
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Courageous (Kendrick,2011)
I thought I was going to get away without having to write anything about Alex Kendrick's Courageous, a film which is admittedly hard for me to be fair to at least in part because I'm not really the intended audience.
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Real Steel (Levy, 2011)
Real Steel is a hard film to not like, so about half way through I stopped trying and just gave myself permission to enjoy it.
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African Chelsea (Roske, 2011)
I don't normally say a lot about short films in these pages, but I thought I would give a shout-out to African Chelsea for a couple of reasons.
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50/50 (Levine, 2011)
Does it really fall on me to be the dissenting voice on this film? Grimace. I don't want to be. I want to respect it (in fact I do respect it) for its earnestness and good intentions. But...
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4th & Goal (Seavey, 2010)
One of the abiding mysteries of film criticism is why there are so few good football movies.
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Tyrannosaur (Considine, 2011)
Hannah is in an abusive relationship (and that's the understatement of the year), and the way Considine lets this play out without Hannah verbalizing the way her relationship with God affects and is affected by her attempts to negotiate her husband's treatment of her allows the film to be achingly real without ever preaching.
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Habemus Papam (Moretti, 2011)
Ultimately Habemus Papam felt less like a blasphemy and more like a failure of imagination.