Movie Reviews
‘Mr. Woodcock' is a gym-dandy comedy. Seann William Scott plays a successful author who learns his mother is dating his old P.E. teacher
Contrary to appearances, “Mr. Woodcock” has more going for it than vivid double entendres and a premise ripped straight from the “Meet the Parents” playbook of goofy situational comedy. Not a lot more, but this surprisingly smart riff on the demons of...
‘Brave One' a jarring take on vengeance. Jodie Foster kicks tail, takes names in newest thriller.
Being Jodie Foster means never having to fight for the blanket in the morning. To her long line of widowed/divorced/romantically deprived heroines, add Erica Kane, the fear-addled radio personality who cuts a swath of bloody vengeance across New York...
Off-note ‘Hunting Party'. Embellishment gets in way of journalist's tale Serbo-Bosnian War tale.
In retrospect, it seems painfully obvious, but I'll say it anyway: What works for lonely heart hit-men and nebbish ad execs in Mexico doesn't necessarily work for war journalists covering genocide in the Balkans. Tell it to Richard Shepard....
‘Shoot ‘Em Up’ a monument to excess. Preposterous action scenes and nonstop violence make for one of the wildest films of the year.
Imagine Luc Besson (“The Professional”) shot through with the farcical lunacy of the Zucker brothers (“Airplane”) and the in-your-face topical editorializing of Michael Moore (“Bowling for Columbine”), and you might have something that resembles “Shoot...
‘3:10 to Yuma’ does Western genre proud. The skillfully acted remake boasts what may be a career-making performance from young Ben Foster.
To call James Mangold’s “3:10 to Yuma” the best American-made Western since “Unforgiven” is not quite the redundancy it seems. After all, who says Westerns have to take place in America? If one expands the taxonomy to encompass frontiers both domestic...
‘Superbad' more pathos than prurience. Beneath its horny-boy trappings, the movie has something to say about friendship and growing up.
Please, a round of applause for the tortured, socially impaired high school outcast. Can you imagine a world without him? Who would grow up to write our TV sitcoms, master our Web sites and fume eloquently on our talk radio airwaves? Without the crucible...
‘Invasion’ misses the mark. The post-9/11 spin on ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ bears the scars of its turbulent production.
Who among us hasn’t gone all glassy-eyed watching a cable network news personality deliver up-to-the-minute coverage of suicide bombings in Iraq, genocide in Darfur and nuclear missile tests in North Korea? For better or worse, tuning out is a matter...
Family gags done to death. Lowbrow Brit humor isn't the problem here - it's the repetitiveness.
Lest we forget that the Brits once revolutionized the art of lowbrow entertainment, there's “Death at a Funeral,” a terrifically rude black comedy set during that most solemn of gatherings. Contrary to appearances, the modern British palate is not...
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