Film Reviews
CategoryThoughts on the New Star Wars Trailer, and The New Star Wars In General
Ah! The trailer for the new Star Wars is here. The child in me that used to watch Return of the Jedi every day is so excited! Here are..
The New Hunger Games Movie Is a Crash Course in the Horrors of the World for Tweenyboppers
PTSD seems to haunt Katniss, as it would most who have survived the Hunger Games.
Mockingjay Part 1 begins with Katniss hiding in a co..
“Listen Up Philip”: He never does, and he never will
Though Alex Ross Perry’s Listen Up Philip is set in the present, in style and content it’s a painfully self-conscious throwback: to a time..
“Interstellar”: My God! It’s full of cheese!
On my way out of the Interstellar press screening, I passed a movie theater employee. “Was it awesome?” he asked. I paused, and thought. I..
“I’ll Be Me”: Glen Campbell documentary is a must-see chronicle of a family living with Alzheimer’s
If you’d told me that in the same summer as The Fault in Our Stars I would see an even more emotionally taxing film I would not have belie..
Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance or Let’s Not Get Carried Away
It’s hard to take a movie seriously when it features an impassioned monologue on social media and human connection, delivered by a charact..
“Gone Girl”: A psychological thriller that’s long on the thrills and short on the psychology
In the most recent installment of the decennial Sight & Sound international film critics’ poll, Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo unseated Orson ..
“The Giver”: A complex, nuanced movie about how fascism is bad and kissing is good
As we heard repeatedly in the interminable and awkward red-carpet simulcast leading up to the national premiere of The Giver, the filmmake..
“Very Good Girls”: The Quiz
Very Good Girls is about two girls who find their lifelong friendship tested during the summer before college. It stars:
a. Sophie Turn..
“Transformers: Age of Extinction”: Michael Bay unleashed
Appropriately for a franchise centering on robots with the ability to dramatically change their appearance, the Transformers stories have ..
Clint Eastwood’s “Jersey Boys”: Failure in Falsetto
Jersey Boys, the 2005 jukebox musical that tells the (more or less) true story of Frankie Valli, is one of the sturdiest and most enjoyabl..
Obvious Child Proves You Can Have an Abortion and Still Be a Rom Com Heroine
Quick – name all the times you can remember characters in movies or shows having abortions. Is it zero times? Maybe one if you wa..