Film Reviews

Sleeper hit vs. box office flop vs. ‘Rotten Tomatoes’. For art’s sake vs. is that porn or what? Oscars vs. BAFTA vs. Golden Globes, Sundance vs. Cannes. And by the way, the Razzies and MTV Movie Awards. Let the world’s Roger Eberts weed out the bad from the good, but remember, we all like to score.

Film Reviews.

82% North Face
A tense and gripping spectacular piece of snow-bound historical German film-making.
My Name is Khan
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39% Brooklyn’s Finest
It’s appropriately gritty, and soaked in the kind of palpable tension Antoine Fuqua delivers so well, but Brooklyn’s Finest suffers from the comparisons its cliched script provokes.
63% Videocracy
With the recent assault on Berlusconi in Milan where a man threw a statuette at the prime minister hitting him in the face and causing considerable injury, and the subsequent notice by his administration that the government would seek tighter controls on Facebook and other social networking sites which they claim “instigate” violence against the pr…
67% Shutter Island
It may not rank with Scorsese’s best work, but Shutter Island’s gleefully unapologetic genre thrills represent the director at his most unrestrained.
89% Children of Invention
One of Filmmaker Magazines “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” writer-director Tze Chun makes his feature film debut with one of the most-awarded and best-reviewed films of the year.
19% Cop Out
Cop Out is a cliched buddy action/comedy that suffers from stale gags and slack pacing.
69% The Last Station
Michael Hoffman’s script doesn’t quite live up to its famous subject, but this Tolstoy biopic benefits from a spellbinding tour de force performance by Helen Mirren.
82% Avatar
It might be more impressive on a technical level than as a piece of storytelling, but Avatar reaffirms James Cameron’s singular gift for imaginative, absorbing filmmaking.
37% Happy Tears
Replete with quirky indie cliches, Happy Tears wastes some fine performances from Demi Moore, Parker Posey, and Rip Torn on stale formula.