Movie Review: V for Vendetta

On one level, V for Vendetta marks a return to form of sorts for the Wachowski brothers, who stumbled after the success of The Matrix with a pair of failed sequels.
Intriguing Themes and Violent Action
[Editor's Note: This film… Read More

Movie Review: The New World

Up to a point, there is a level of artistic kinship between The New World, Terrence Malick’s dreamlike origin myth of the American colonies, and another recent, visually poetic meditation on a foundation story: Mel Gibson’s The Passion of The… Read More

Movie Review: Match Point

The first shot in Woody Allen’s Match Point is meant to serve as a metaphorical master-image for the film as a whole: a freeze-frame shot of a tennis ball suspended in space over the net after striking it, poised between… Read More

The Best and Worst of Jackson’s King Kong

An Expressive Empathetic Kong[Editor's Note: This film contains intense, sometimes horrific action, violence and mayhem, as well as some objectionable language. It is not suitable for under teens.]
Wholly commercial and popular in content, obsessively personal in construction and approach,… Read More

Movie Review: The Exorcism of Emily Rose

A Study in Opposing Worldviews
[Editor's Note: This film contains intense, disturbing phenomena and imagery. It is suitable only for adults.]
Do the voices whispering in someone’s head come from his own subconscious, or from somewhere else? Is some syndrome… Read More

Stories of Karol: Telling the Life of a Man Who Became Pope

Karol: A Man Who Became Pope isn’t the first TV movie on the life of Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II — but among the new crop of pope movies coming in the wake of the Holy Father’s… Read More

Movie Review: The Island

The Island is the closest thing so far to a good Michael Bay film. Damning with faint praise, yes — but bear in mind that most of Bay’s filmography to date (Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Bad Boys and Bad Boys II)… Read More

Parents Beware: Nothing Incredible about Fantastic Four

A “funny family action film.” That’s the studio spin on the cinematic train wreck that is Fantastic Four — far and away the worst comic-book super-hero movie since Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin.
An Insult to Family Audiences
The logic… Read More

Movie Review : Cinderella Man

When promising light heavyweight Jimmy Braddock (Russell Crowe) goes home after winning the bout at the top of Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man, the congratulatory air of celebration surrounding him evaporates as he stands with a hangdog expression before his silent… Read More

Movie Review: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful [as the Babel fish] could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence… Read More

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