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.
Category: Reviews
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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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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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Habemus Papam (Moretti, 2011)
Ultimately Habemus Papam felt less like a blasphemy and more like a failure of imagination.
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The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne & Dardenne, 2011)
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have been so consistent and so dependable for the last fifteen years, turning out high quality films every two to three years, that a new film from them doesn't seem to generate the buzz or excitement of a fresh, new talent.
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A Separation (Farhadi, 2011)
Asghar Farhadi's A Separation is a riveting domestic drama that works equally well as a character study and a social critique.
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Dear Uncle Adolf: The Germans and Their Fuhrer (Kloft, 2010)
One of the academically interesting consequences of the end of the cold war has been access to historical material that would not necessarily been available to Western historians while the Soviet Union was still in existence.