Movie Review: Life of Pi
What audiences were waiting for: the cross between Cast Away, Contact, and Titanic. Life of Pi is a tremendous motion picture. It is equal parts …
Drama
Movie Review: Anna Karenina
Every generation, Anna Karenina gets remade because of its brilliant dissection of passion vs. society’s rules. People are drawn to Anna’s tragic situation of loving …
Movie Review: Flight
For 2 of the 2.5 hours of Flight’s running time, I was really immersed in the fascinating character study unfolding as a result of a …
Movie Review: Smashed
Smashed, like its protagonist, has two sides. One is a very realistic depiction of how hard it for someone to achieve sobriety, the other is …
Movie Review: The Master
Director Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted some of the most interesting movies of the past generation: Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, and Punch …
Movie Review: Compliance
I don’t think you will find a better subtle cautionary tale than Compliance. Based on a pretty accurate story that was repeated around 70 times, …
Movie Review: A Separation
A Separation is a wonderful combination of genres rolled into one: courtroom drama, family conflict, mystery, and a dysfunctional institution story. Director Asghar Farhadi sets …
Movie Review: Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin must have read Huckleberry Finn before he directed Beasts of the Southern Wild. The setups are almost identical: they feature a younger protagonist, …
Movie Review: Magic Mike
Magic Mike has everything Striptease does not: male nudity, female nudity, a script, good acting, and Steven Soderbergh. Many people will cite one of these …
Movie Review: The Intouchables
Mismatched buddy pairings don’t get much better than the Intouchables. I’ll admit, part of me went into this movie hoping to see some foreign version …