The Adventures of Tintin is a wonderful action-adventure that allows director Steven Spielberg to unleash every action beat/camera move he has never been able to do with the freedom of motion capture.
Read more "Film Review: The Adventures of Tintin"Jason Reitman’s latest is another strong, yet lesser, effort from the young director and he gets a great performance out of his lead, Charlize Theron, who makes the most of Diablo Cody’s sharp screenplay.
Read more "Film Review: Young Adult"Brad Bird makes his live action debut with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and the results are 2/3 of a great action movie that makes up for its minor third act missteps in the finale.
Read more "Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a solid sequel, but doesn’t really advance the story or bring much new to the series.
Read more "Film Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows"Steve McQueen’s Shame features the best performance of the year in Michael Fassbender and might also be the best film of 2011 on top of that.
Read more "Film Review: Shame"The Artist is an interesting homage to the silent film era that shows the format can still entertain, but it doesn’t play with the format as much as it could; especially when it seems that it wants to.
Read more "Film Review: The Artist"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is the English language debut for Tomas Alfredson and the result is a marvelously acted and meticulously directed and plotted spy film that will reward those who give themselves over to the plot as it unfolds its twists and turns.
Read more "Film Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"New Year’s Eve is a terrible movie, one you shouldn’t see, and I hope it is a giant failure so we don’t get Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Arbor Day movies over the next three years. This is coming from someone who thought Valentine’s Day was a watchable mess, but this latest entry makes that film look […]
Read more "Film Review: New Year’s Eve"The Muppets is a joy of a film, as it is wonderful to have the gang back, and the sheer positivity of the characters paired with the excitement of seeing them on the screen again makes it easy to forgive a few shortcomings as you grin ear to ear over almost the entirety of the […]
Read more "Film Review: The Muppets"Martin Scorsese’s Hugo takes a bit to find its way, but once it does it is a marvelous tale of filmmaking and wonder that is, quite possibly, the best use of 3D yet.
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