Movie Reviews
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close – Review [4.7/10]
Review by Kansascity.com A bright, socially awkward boy tries to make sense of 9/11 and find some closure with the father he lost on what he calls “the worst day” in “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.” The film, based on a Jonathan Safran Foer novel, is a sometimes tearful remembrance of that day and the
Beauty and the Beast Review [9.2/10]
Review by nj.com How do you get people to pay a second time for a product they’ve already bought once? And to pay even more? It’s a marketing challenge, all right — but one that Hollywood is happy to tackle this year, as films from “Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace” to “Titanic”
Haywire Movie Review [8.2/10]
Review by Freep.com Gina Carano has a face that can hold a Hollywood close-up and a fist that can hold your nose until it comes clean off. Steven Soderbergh cast this mixed martial arts star and model in “Haywire” and surrounded her with experienced actors because he wanted to see an action movie starring a
Joyful Noise Movie Review [3.3/10]
Review by Star Tribune “Joyful Noise” is a sort of Wal-Mart movie, not exactly trendsetting but a decent enough offering for the heartland. The premise smacks of focus-group research more than inspiration, but it hits the target. Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton in a feel-good musical about a church choir — tell me how that
Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol Movie Review [9.3/10]
Review by The Charlotte Observer You’re going to want to spring for IMAX tickets to “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.” If Tom Cruise is willing to hang off the walls of the tallest building in the world, where do you get off going cheap? “Ghost Protocol” is the most action-packed, most jokey and self-aware, most
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Movie Review [6.3/10]
Review by The Orange County Register For much of the cinema’s history, the movies have had the good sense to keep Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty off camera, an unseen menace made all the more menacing by his absence. Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” puts the infamous Professor M. face to face
Kill List – Review [7.9/10]
Review by M&C You have to go along with this one. Give it a chance anyway and take in a good, creepy horror flick. Killer for hire Jay (Neil Maskell: “It’s All Gone Pete Tong”) is having a tough time. It is a mid-life crisis for a hired gun. He is one of the best
The Iron Lady Movie Review [5.3/10]
Review by charlotteobserver.com From the moment her name and the subject of her next film were announced, you knew Meryl Streep’s performance as/impersonation of Margaret Thatcher had Oscar written all over it. And true to form, the Academy might as well emboss her name on the statuette now. It’s an uncanny turn by the screen’s
Midnight in Paris Movie Review [4.1/5]
Every few years Woody Allen makes a great movie, and people talk about how Woody’s back. Well, since he does this regularly, he’s never really away.
Super 8 Movie Review [4/5]
At first, this is a blissful charmer—a fable soaked in gently ironic nostalgia. In 1979, in a small Ohio town, a bunch of middle-school kids are making a terrific homemade zombie movie.
Go For It! Movie Review [Rating:4/10]
Go for It! is an all-too-familiar tale of a young woman attempting to raise herself above her humble station through, what else, dance. Carmen Marron’s low-budget effort earns points for effectively conveying the grittiness of its lead character’s inner city surroundings.
The First Grader Movie Review [Rating:6/10]
TimesEarly on in “The First Grader,” an ancient man, as hard and lean as his walking stick, strides miles across the coarse Kenyan bush. When he gets to his destination — a rural primary school — the gate is already locked leaving him to stand alone on one side, with everything he wants on the other.
True Legend Movie Review [Rating:7/10]
If action’s your thing, then the Chinese-Hong Kong martial-arts epic “True Legend” is your movie. After a 14-year break from directing — during which he provided kung-fu choreography for Quentin Tarantino and Ang Lee — Yuen Woo-ping returns to helming with this gung-ho tale of revenge set during the 19th century.
Everything Must Go Movie Review [Rating:7.7/10]
Perhaps that’s because this wisp of an indie, written and directed by first-time filmmaker Dan Rush from a short story by Raymond Carver, stars Will Ferrell, a comedian who specializes in seeming at once wistful and indestructible.
