To say that Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary was an unfocused mess would be implying that it left me with some sort of feeling after leaving the theater. Read more
To say that Bruce Robinson’s The Rum Diary was an unfocused mess would be implying that it left me with some sort of feeling after leaving the theater. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
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... Read more
One of the abiding mysteries of film criticism is why there are so few good football movies. Read more
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. Read more
Ultimately Habemus Papam felt less like a blasphemy and more like a failure of imagination. Read more