Celebrating 16 Years of Film.Biz.Fans.

Movie Reviews

  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Exit Wounds: Irwin Winkler's "Home of the Brave"

    At the very least, "Home of the Brave" is one for the history books: the first major fiction film about the Iraq War and its effect on those fighting it. Updating "The Best Years of Our Lives" before conflict has reached an end (if there ever is one), this too-earnest drama seeks to realistically po...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | London Falling: Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering"

    The kind of movie that makes a pejorative of words like "tasteful" and "intelligent," Anthony Minghella's "Breaking and Entering" arrives just in time to give the faint-hearted a refuge from the untidy pleasures of "Casino Royale" and "Borat." The latest from the director of "The English Patient" is...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    4 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Half Step: James Ponsoldt's "Off the Black"

    There's a lot about "Off the Black" to remind you that it's a directorial debut - the bearded indie-type clerking a small-town convenience store who just screams "director's buddy," for example - but that's not the real problem. Writer/director James Ponsoldt's screenplay never stops reminding us th...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    1 comment
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Daily Grind: Daniel Burman's "Family Law"

    I don't go to the movies looking for modest intentions any more than your average baseball fan goes to the stadium hoping to see some well laid-down bunts, but Daniel Burman's "Family Law" is cause for exception. This story of a thirtyish law professor, Ariel Perelman, (Daniel Hendler), wriggling be...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Into the Woods: David Lynch's "Inland Empire"

    Since its wildly anticipated debut screening at this October's New York Film Festival, David Lynch's three-hour, digital-video freefall "Inland Empire" has been both castigated and commended for the same things: its jaggedness, its refusal to give up its secrets, and its merrily incongruous jigsawin...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Checking Out: Brad Silberling's "10 Items or Less"

    Brad Silberling's "10 Items or Less" takes its title from the express checkout lane at the grocery store, and refers more particularly here to the aisle manned by Spanish actress Paz Vega as Scarlet in a working-class L.A. neighborhood. To this locale, Morgan Freeman--as himself, or someone like hi...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    1 comment
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Bad Blood: Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles"

    Opening on World AIDS Day, Thom Fitzgerald's "3 Needles" sets itself up as a consciousness raiser from the get-go. Chronicling three stories built around the disease's manifestations across geographic and cultural distances in just over two hours, no wonder the result is reductive--but still, you s...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Agriculture Clash: Nikolaus Geyrhalter's "Our Daily Bread"

    In one of those coincidences that will inevitably have critics spotting a newly forming cultural zeitgeist, the food industry doc "Our Daily Bread" now follows fast on the heels of Richard Linklater's Saylesian fictional adaptation of Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation expose. Whatever the reasons fo...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Peter Cattaneo's "Opal Dream"

    The greatest service one can do for a "family film" like "Opal Dream" is to not slap that condescending label on it at all. "Family" may be a useful generic stamp, but British director Peter Cattaneo's very good, very involving movie doesn't deserve to be qualified as such, with the accompanying sug...

    Read More »
  • Indiewire
    0 comments
    tweet
    0

    REVIEW | Hard Lessons: Nicolas Hytner's "The History Boys"

    What was evidently innovative on stage has become turgid and rote onscreen: Nicolas Hytner's big-screen adaptation of Alan Bennett's wildly praised, Tony-winning "The History Boys" is, as will be noted even in positive reviews, saddled with clumsy musical cues, dreadful montages of frolicking, and o...

    Read More »

Popular Posts


  • A Look At Seattle International Film ...Shadow and Act
  • Review and Trailer for Oscar-Nominated ...Thompson on Hollywood
  • EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: 'Kill List' Director ...Thompson on Hollywood
  • Zimbabwean Director Of 'Pride' Heading ...Shadow and Act
  • Skinny Matthew McConaughey Talks New ...Thompson on Hollywood
  • Navigating Documentary 'Venus and Serena' ...Thompson on Hollywood
  • Gemma Arterton & Anna Kendrick Join ...The Playlist
  • Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: ...Criticwire
  • Watch: Mark Wahlberg Slam Dunks Over ...The Playlist
  • Robert De Niro & Shia LaBeouf To Play ...The Playlist
  • Beatles Documentary 'Good ol' Freda' ...Thompson on Hollywood
  • Tribeca Review: ‘Sunlight Jr.’ Authentically ...The Playlist
  • Today Marks The 10th Anniversary Of ...Shadow and Act
  • CNN Deserves an Award for ChutzpahJon Friedmans Media Matrix
  • WATCH STREISAND CLIPS, as the Star Accepts ...Thompson on Hollywood

Latest Tweets


Follow us