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Man of Steel

reviewed on June 15th, 2013 06:35PM

As, say, a completely clean slate, a total rebirth to the film franchise that's present as if to say this is the new and definitive vision of Superman, I think this is severely lacking. But as its own unique Superman adventure, I'd say Man of Stee...

Star Trek Into Darkness

reviewed on May 15th, 2013 09:46PM

It begins almost like an Indiana Jones movie- not just for the indigenous tribe touting blow-darts, but for the feeling of being thrust into the midst of another adventure, with our heroes in jeopardy in the show-stopping opening. At this point in...

Silver Linings Playbook

reviewed on May 5th, 2013 08:49PM

Silver Linings Playbook is a very charming movie and I felt invested with the love story. It's a very unconventional one on its surface but at its core, it's a nice love story, you want the guy and the girl to get together, and OH MY GOD SPOILER A...

Iron Man 3

reviewed on May 3rd, 2013 02:57PM

Iron Man 3 may be the very first time the existence of the 2nd Unit became very apparent to me while watching a movie. Directors can't be everywhere at once so it's necessary that they have a talented team to shoot certain action scenes, or aerial...

Evil Dead

reviewed on April 5th, 2013 07:59PM

Life goes by pretty fast. Far too fast to spend your time watching bad movies, unless you can find some kind of pleasure in it, which is something I've experienced with the cheesy 1981 horror film The Evil Dead. Much to my surprise, the first movi...

The Master

reviewed on March 28th, 2013 08:35AM

After World War One they called it Shell Shock. In the opening scenes of The Master, soldiers are readying to come home and re-enter society as the second World War comes to a close. They're given quick little pep talks, quick little psychologi...

Les Miserables

reviewed on March 24th, 2013 11:25PM

It's a fine movie with impressive production value and excellent acting and singing and of course music, and I have to admit this is my first experience in any way shape or form with Les Miserables. With that in mind, I think it's most fair to jud...

Wreck-It Ralph

reviewed on March 17th, 2013 06:54PM

What the creative minds behind Disney animated films do well, especially in recent years with the revolution of CGI animation, is think the way children may think, and consider these secret worlds behind seemingly trivial things, like toys who com...

I'm Not There

reviewed on March 15th, 2013 03:54PM

"There he lies. God rest his soul, and his rudeness. A devouring public can now share the remains of his sickness, and his phone numbers. There he lay: poet, prophet, outlaw, fake, star of electricity. Nailed by a peeping tom, who would soon disco...

Seven Psychopaths

reviewed on March 3rd, 2013 08:19PM

They say to write what you know. Most people would be happy to not know violence, though we live in a culture obsessed by it, it lives right next door to us, one nation under psychopaths. There was a time when it was not unusual that filmmakers co...

Looper

reviewed on January 23rd, 2013 07:44PM

Looper sees a bleak future (as if there is any other kind) where people are taken from the even FURTHER future, brought back through time travel, killed, and disposed of, since apparently in the gap of 25 years it has become really hard to hide de...

Zero Dark Thirty

reviewed on January 13th, 2013 04:46PM

More than anything I think the death of Osama Bin Laden was a symbolic victory for the United States. The president made his announcement to the world, people celebrated in the streets, but the world kept on turning, evil still existed in the worl...

Dredd 3D

reviewed on January 12th, 2013 08:12PM

What a rotten day Judge Dredd is having. It starts off with having to take down some gang-bangers who put innocent civilians' lives in danger, but hey, that's just part of the job. But then he's assigned to evaluate a rookie Judge with less than e...

Ted

reviewed on January 12th, 2013 05:45PM

Seth Macfarlane seems to be obsessed with nostalgia, and I guess it makes sense that he would do a movie like this as his first feature film. That's basically what it is about, a 35-year-old man-child who refuses to grow up. His job's decent enoug...

Arbitrage

reviewed on January 2nd, 2013 08:54PM

Richard Gere plays Robert Miller, a calculating businessman, calm and reserved for the most part, seeing the bigger picture, keeping his cool. But there's a brilliant moment in the movie where he speaks candidly to his daughter while making a conf...

Django Unchained

reviewed on December 29th, 2012 10:00PM

There's always this feeling of hyper-awareness set upon us when viewing a Quentin Tarantino film, whether you're an aficionado or not, whether it's an entirely conscious feeling or not, but with the way his movies are presented, we're aware we are...

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

reviewed on December 17th, 2012 08:26PM

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a wonderful fantasy adventure and in more than worthy company of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and presented in a way that I guess only Peter Jackson was best suited to do. Tolkien's novel is a thin book by co...

Lincoln

reviewed on December 15th, 2012 03:52PM

I was a little surprised by Lincoln because it wasn't so much the sweeping biography that I was anticipating but very, very specifically about the crucial point in Abraham Lincoln's presidency with his struggle to pass a new amendment that would, ...

Snow White and the Huntsman

reviewed on November 29th, 2012 10:01PM

Oscar winner Charlize Theron and MTV Movie Award winner Kristen Stewart star along with the guy who plays Thor in an updated version of the classic Snow White tale. It's more frank and it's augmented to be more of a sweeping epic, which I don't re...

Savages

reviewed on November 17th, 2012 08:33PM

"In a few years this shit is going to be legal. Do not fuck with Wal-Mart" Sound advice from John Travolta's character in Savages, playing a double or maybe triple-timing federal agent. And speaking of triple-timing, well, never mind. Anyway. I...

Skyfall

reviewed on November 15th, 2012 06:51PM

There's a good deal of symbolism to take from Skyfall, of the story of this legendary secret agent meeting supposed death, finding his way back into the world, and having to build himself up over again to be the man he once was: no easy task, as t...

The Amazing Spider-Man

reviewed on November 9th, 2012 09:39PM

I'm sure it's hardly an original criticism of this movie, but hey, it's 2012: in this day in age, if you have a skinny boy in thick-rimmed glasses, who skateboards and enjoys photography, with hair that just can't be tamed and especially when he l...

Safety Not Guaranteed

reviewed on November 4th, 2012 11:55AM

I could be mistaken but I think this may be the only movie ever to be based on a personal ad (Single White Female shouldn’t count), and long before the movie I was very much familiar with the “Time Traveler” ad and all of the internet memes it ins...

The Campaign

reviewed on November 2nd, 2012 09:32PM

Jay Roach is a very good comedy director because he just lets funny people be funny, and isn't afraid to portray wacky characters as real people. I liked Will Ferrell's character Cam Brady despite him having seriously questionable morals, I liked ...

Argo

reviewed on October 21st, 2012 06:49PM

I think the reason why Argo has resulted in being as good as it is, and as human and touching as it is, rather than simply being a superbly crafted white-knuckle thriller- which it is anyway- is that its very premise stems from a father and son, m...

The Cabin in the Woods

reviewed on October 3rd, 2012 08:12PM

In the reality of this movie there are demons or gods or something that wait beneath the earth, and threaten to destroy every living being on the planet if they are not appeased with a ritual sacrifice, intrinsically carried through by the sufferi...

Jeff, Who Lives At Home

reviewed on October 2nd, 2012 05:28PM

Um, is it okay if I didn't really like this movie? I mean, I'm all for independent film and I have huge admiration for popular and talented actors such as Ed Helms and Jason Segel who would rather take out the time from their likely busy schedu...

A Thousand Words

reviewed on September 30th, 2012 01:00PM

The premise of this movie sort of reminds me of Liar Liar. The plot of Liar Liar, you may remember, involves a dead-beat dad lawyer who can't stop lying and one day his son makes a birthday wish for it to be impossible for him to tell a lie for a ...

Superman

reviewed on August 24th, 2012 09:25PM

The title screen itself states simply, "Superman," and it's commonly referred to as such, but on a lot of promotional material and posters and DVD/Blu-ray covers it's labelled as "Superman: The Movie." I prefer that addition, I guess it doesn't ma...

The Dark Knight Rises

reviewed on July 20th, 2012 03:56PM

Lies told and secrets kept hidden underneath the surface rise to the light in Christopher Nolan's third and final Batman film. The ending of The Dark Knight had a certain inspiring romanticism to it and the choices made by its characters. Out of r...

Moonrise Kingdom

reviewed on July 5th, 2012 09:29PM

There are strong hints of nostalgia in Moonrise Kingdom but while it is set in the 1960s there's a modern edge to it with some relevance concerning today's youth, and it's tied together, amazingly, through a quirky adventure that feels timeless an...

21 Jump Street

reviewed on June 30th, 2012 10:35AM

21 Jump Street isn't the first movie of its kind to give a little wink to the audience that it is self-aware of its gimmick: you may recall the 2000 big-screen version of Charlie's Angels, in which LL Cool J (who is actually Drew Barrymore in an e...

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

reviewed on June 22nd, 2012 09:29PM

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is a better movie than I was expecting and probably a better movie than it has any right to be considering the super cheesy concept. But to my surprise, not only was it a very enjoyable action horror movie but a ver...

Prometheus

reviewed on June 8th, 2012 06:08PM

Prometheus is a scarring and devastating film, an excellent future-set thriller with some truly horrifying scenes and visuals that are wondrous to behold. It also offers great science fiction, with fresh and fascinating ideas that just about warra...

Men in Black 3

reviewed on June 6th, 2012 08:31PM

Men In Black came out over 14 years ago? Well, excuse me while I feel old. I loved that first movie, though. It's a classic, it really holds up. Essentially it's a buddy cop comedy with the mismatched pair but with a modern, sci-fi edge. Will Smit...

Terri

reviewed on May 29th, 2012 07:27PM

Terri is an unpoular outcast in his high school and I don't mean that in the way that Duckie or the damn kids from Glee are outcasts but in the way that he is completely removed from the equation of normal, functioning human beings. He is the quie...

The Avengers

reviewed on May 6th, 2012 02:25PM

Marvel Studios' grand and ambitious continuity with The Avengers and the films leading up to it is probably the closest translation to the experience of reading a comic book series to date. If you were to pick up an issue of Spider-Man and halfway...

Shame

reviewed on April 29th, 2012 08:55PM

Michael Fassbender delivers an exceptional performance as Brandon, a sex addict, in a movie that rises above what could have been a tawdry, explicit sideshow of deviant activity because it presents its content in a way that's almost mundane. There...

Paranormal Activity 3

reviewed on April 10th, 2012 06:04PM

I have watched Paranormal Activity 3 and here are some observations with no spoilers. It was set in the 80's and supposedly shot on tape or Hi-8 or something but it does not look like it. Looks more like high definition digital, I dunno. I get ...

The Hunger Games

reviewed on March 26th, 2012 07:57PM

I guess there was a demand for this kind of a story to be told in the "We are the 99%" days, in this case the 99% being citizens from 12 Districts in a dystopian future chosen to fight to the death and the 1% being the Capitol, full of well-to-do ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

reviewed on March 24th, 2012 07:37PM

Kudos to Finch for making it well worth my while sitting through a movie I've technically already seen a year and a half ago. All around excellent film and the cast was great. Craig was great, Mara was great, and the supporting cast was great. ...

The Descendants

reviewed on March 18th, 2012 08:37PM

It's hard to pull off the sharp and funny along with the genuinely emotionally touching, but Alexander Payne's films seem to be the most successful of any efforts I've seen in the past decade or so. I loved The Descendants and thought it was a bri...

The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn

reviewed on March 18th, 2012 03:15PM

I'm fairly familiar with the Tintin character, I know it was pretty huge and acclaimed in Europe and it had a fair amount of exposure in Canada as well, but for whatever reason I don't think it was quite as well-known in the United States. Global ...

John Carter

reviewed on March 14th, 2012 08:28PM

John Carter is almost like an experiment- a multi-million dollar expirement by the way- as to whether or not a big event picture based on a century-old novel of minimal popularity could sell tickets. And they really, really seem to push this in th...

Young Adult

reviewed on March 13th, 2012 07:54PM

Charlize Theron is one of our greatest actresses and I guess it doesn't hurt that she's insanely hot, too, and if you want to call a spade a spade, it oddly took slapping on ten pounds of ugly to announce her incredible abilities to the world with...

Hugo

reviewed on February 28th, 2012 09:15PM

Hugo is at least in spirit an autobiographical film by Scorsese. A director's oeuvre will more often than not leave peices of the director behind, intentional or not. You could look at something like Goodfellas, seeing very literal peices of Scors...

The Ides of March

reviewed on February 1st, 2012 06:59AM

George Clooney is a generous director because he tends to seek out projects where the lead role is clearly wrong for him, and is content to let another actor take the spotlight while he can remain in a supporting role which can still be advertised...

Moneyball

reviewed on January 29th, 2012 07:07AM

The struggle to win isn't so much played out in the field as it is played out behind the scenes, by whoever is able to assemble the best team. The teams with the most money can scout and trade pretty much whoever they want, so where does that leav...

Crazy Stupid Love

reviewed on January 7th, 2012 11:07AM

This is one of those movies that's pretty much aiming for every demographic so there's a lot going on, different characters of different ages, plenty of little subplots that interlink, and a large, very impressive cast. They pretty much got stars ...

Red State

reviewed on January 2nd, 2012 09:46PM

Kevin Smith is such a naturally funny writer and person in general so to have a movie from him being a lot more straight-forward and "serious" like this is a nice hook. But it's strange how easily we can just brush comedies off, as if they have no...

Midnight in Paris

reviewed on December 31st, 2011 08:27AM

Here's a movie I knew absolutely nothing about going into and was swept away and charmed by it. The plot is actually kind of bizarre, in fact, by its own admission, borders almost on science fiction. But it is very understated and has enough respe...

Warrior

reviewed on December 27th, 2011 08:15PM

The movie is called Warrior, but the story is of two brothers whose paths cross after years of bad blood and estrangement when they both enter a mixed martial arts fighting championship. Maybe they could have called it Warriors, you know, plural? ...

Horrible Bosses

reviewed on December 26th, 2011 02:08PM

Often when watching a movie like this you can just sense the fun everyone's having making it and in an increasingly rarer treat with the revolution of DVD bonus material, we'll get a blooper reel accompanying the credit sequence confirming these s...

The Muppets

reviewed on December 18th, 2011 03:24PM

When the Muppets pitch their idea for a telethon to a producer played by Rashida Jones she lets them know that the Muppets are old news and to spark any kind of interest in their show at all they would need a big celebrity guest star. The story be...

The Tree of Life

reviewed on December 16th, 2011 04:00PM

Compared to the vast scale and longevity of the earth and the universe itself we are so insignificant. But our own experience is all we have in our painfully brief time on the planet. Our own story and our own perception is special, and in its own...

Green Lantern

reviewed on November 18th, 2011 06:10PM

Super hero movies are such delicate balancing acts that it's no wonder so many of them tend to disappoint. There's an unavoidable compromise that needs to be reached in both satisfying fans of the source material and also being fair to the non-con...

The Town

reviewed on November 13th, 2011 12:30PM

So I finally had the chance to see this movie after wanting to watch it for a good while. I had heard it was very good and a lot of people had great things to say about it. But I guess it wasn't quite good enough to be nominated for best picture, ...

Attack the Block

reviewed on November 6th, 2011 09:12AM

I think they're afraid to make movies like this and I think there's a pressure to keep them at a PG-13 rating, there's something almost obscene about putting young children in these frightening situations that would bring in some moral questionabi...

Donnie Darko

reviewed on October 16th, 2011 05:46PM

After watching Donnie Darko for the first time since it first came out on video, I feel almost the same way I did when I saw it about 8 or 9 years ago. I'm conflicted. I want to like the movie more than I actually do. I feel a certain affection to...

The People vs George Lucas

reviewed on September 24th, 2011 04:44PM

The Star Wars saga was released on Blu-ray recently and seeing as how once again George Lucas tinkered around with his movies there was yet another outcry from enraged fans to precede it. I don't think there could have been a better time for this ...

X-Men: First Class

reviewed on September 10th, 2011 08:49PM

Part of me wants to enjoy X-MEN: FIRST CLASS on its own merits as a stand-alone X-Men film and not try to hurt my brain trying to peice together the chronology with the other movies, while another part of me truly does appreciate how it strengthen...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2

reviewed on August 31st, 2011 04:44PM

It's hard to review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 without getting a little nostalgic. How can you reflect on the ten years we've spent with the character without feeling just a little sentimental? When we first met Harry, Ron, and He...

Super

reviewed on August 10th, 2011 03:03PM

No doubt a lot of people will be comparing this to KICK-ASS, seeing as how it has a similar concept. But to be honest it'd be fairer equating it to something like TAXI DRIVER. I wouldn't describe it as a "fun" movie, it can be quite dark and twist...

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

reviewed on August 6th, 2011 10:06PM

The makeup effects in the original PLANET OF THE APES film were revolutionary in 1968. The Tim Burton-helmed remake, now a decade old, pushed the art as far as it could go under the masterful control of Rick Baker. Now the newest "Apes" movie, RIS...

Captain America: The First Avenger

reviewed on August 4th, 2011 02:39PM

Can a super hero be wholesome, good-spirited, patriotic, determined, positive, and an all around generally pleasant good guy and still be...well, interesting? I think there was a time when that was the only criteria. Joe Johnston's Captain America...

Super 8

reviewed on July 13th, 2011 07:56PM

Taking a look at these kids in Super 8, I could see a little bit of J.J. Abrams in each of them. I could also see myself. And I could see a lot of you. I could just imagine that tiny room, walls covered with posters of the beloved classics and ...

Bridesmaids

reviewed on July 4th, 2011 07:31PM

BRIDESMAIDS is one of those movies that's an exercise in seeing just how many horrible things can happen to the main character: how much she can embarrass and degrade herself, how big of a disaster she can make a situation, and how far she can hit...

Sucker Punch

reviewed on June 29th, 2011 06:21PM

Here is my review of Sucker Punch: I had no idea what was going on in this movie. I didn't know who anyone was, what they were doing, why they were doing it, what was fantasy, what was reality, what was the fantasy blending into the reality and...

Insidious

reviewed on June 7th, 2011 04:34PM

I saw this last weekend because X-Men was sold out. Okay. So we have that out of the way. It's your typical PG-13 spooky haunting kind of movie but with a little bit of a twist. It's not the house that's haunted, the tagline informs us, it's th...

Thor

reviewed on May 18th, 2011 07:17PM

THOR is pretty much the perfect movie to kick off the summer season because there is a scene near the beginning where Thor battles a whole bunch of these frost creatures, so basically he is symbolically laying the smackdown on winter. There's a...

It's Kind of a Funny Story

reviewed on May 15th, 2011 11:04AM

Oh the tremendous pressures that burden Craig, the hero of IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY, and all the youth of today, of yesterday, and of the future. To get along normally, be normal and popular, to get good grades in high school, get into a good co...

Yogi Bear

reviewed on May 14th, 2011 07:32AM

I groan whenever I see a trailer for a movie that is an adaptation of an old kids' show, blending live action with horrible CGI. Scooby Doo, Garfield, Alvin and the Chipmunks, The Smurfs? Ugh. Now that these obnoxious trailers also announce "IN 3D...

Tron: Legacy

reviewed on May 7th, 2011 08:38AM

2010 saw characters trapped in worlds of their own creation. The team in INCEPTION raced against the clock to complete an espionage mission gone awry in their target's subconscious. Scott Pilgrim faced seemingly standard relationship issues with ...

Scream 4

reviewed on April 16th, 2011 06:14AM

In the reality of Scream 4, there are at least 7 Stab movies. We're told and accept the fact quite easily that each Stab movie gets worse and more ridiculous with their plots because only the original 3 movies followed real life and after that "th...

The Runaways

reviewed on January 12th, 2011 06:09PM

Nothing opens a movie with class like a drop of vibrant red period blood. God, this movie was awful. It feels like a made-for-TV movie. It has all the cliches of a rock and roll biopic, and not an ounce of creativity. The dialogue is cringe-induci...

True Grit

reviewed on January 10th, 2011 05:22PM

As I write this review, TRUE GRIT is currently the number one film at the box office. It didn't start out that way, though. It was released a few weeks ago, remaining in the top five, steadily taking in a respectable gross, but still living in the...

The Fighter

reviewed on December 17th, 2010 05:13PM

Wow, what a movie. It's an inspirational true story of a boxer finally getting his break. It's also a story of addiction, and how it can affect loved ones. And above all, it's about family. There are some great boxing scenes in THE FIGHTER, they f...

Devil

reviewed on December 10th, 2010 08:11PM

Suddenly I'm inspired to take the stairs from now on. DEVIL opens with some voiceover setting up the general outline of the plot. The narrator recalls a story his mother would tell him in his youth about the devil coming down to earth in human...

Despicable Me

reviewed on November 28th, 2010 11:27PM

To complete his grand scheme of stealing the moon and becoming the #1 evil genius in the biz, Gru needs to get his hands on a shrink-ray gun. His rival, a dorky-looking villain named Vector, just so happens to have one. Gru thinks it would be a go...

Easy A

reviewed on November 23rd, 2010 12:15AM

Okay, a couple of things: first off, much like the characters in this film and like a lot of high school kids, I also studied Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter. Yes, it was grade 11 history. I had to do a paper on it. I wasn't a big...

Due Date

reviewed on November 8th, 2010 08:01PM

It's not that great, but it's not all that bad, either. Yes, it's DUE DATE, the new film from Oscar-nominated writer Todd Phillips. Oscar-nominated writer Todd Phillips...hmm, no matter how many times you type it, that still sounds weird. The film...

You Again

reviewed on November 7th, 2010 10:04PM

Marni (Kristen Bell) had a really tough time in high school. Pimples, glasses, stupid hair. That kind of stuff. Being a social outcast was bad enough but she was also bullied mercilessly by a bitch cheerleader named J.J. (Odette Yustman) who made ...

The Wolfman

reviewed on October 22nd, 2010 07:04PM

The masterful thing about Lon Chaney Jr.'s portrayal as Lawrence Talbot in his Wolfman movies is that you can just tell by one look at the guy that he's carrying a terrible curse. Benicio Del Toro wouldn't be the first choice to pop in my head for...

Catfish

reviewed on October 19th, 2010 01:33PM

CATFISH is a cautionary tale of online relationships and many of its advertisements and reviews promised a shocking twist, going so as to stress that you should not let anyone, by any means, under any circumstance spoil it for you. I'm really bad ...

The Social Network

reviewed on October 1st, 2010 09:11PM

THE SOCIAL NETWORK may take a little time to warm to. The first 40 minutes or so were pretty much exactly what I was fearing it may be: the origin of how Facebook came to be, how the idea grew, and the genius of the young kid who created this webs...

Get Him to the Greek

reviewed on September 28th, 2010 02:44PM

While watching FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL I never really gave a second thought to the Aldous Snow character played by Russell Brand. He was the typical eccentric rock star type, and was kind of the antagonist of the movie. I guess someone saw poten...

MacGruber

reviewed on September 7th, 2010 07:47PM

MACGRUBER is kind of brilliant because it has the same kind of comedic spirit that you can find in spoofs like the NAKED GUN movies: none of the characters seem to be aware that they're actually in a comedy. The humour stems from the fact that mos...

The Last Exorcism

reviewed on August 31st, 2010 04:42PM

We're all familiar with the tale of the priest who has lost his way, but this one's a little different. The priest in THE LAST EXORCISM questions his faith, but practices anyway. He personally doesn't believe in demons, but will dabble in the occa...

Piranha 3D

reviewed on August 31st, 2010 04:03PM

I saw this movie in 3D. The 3D wasn't really all that good. It was practically non-existent. What a bummer. I think I heard it was converted to the format in post-production and not really filmed with the proper 3D equipment, much like 90% of the ...

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

reviewed on August 25th, 2010 09:35AM

Running at just under 2 hours in length, SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD does not contain a single dull moment. It's fast-paced, stylish, and has a pretty awesome soundtrack, too. The whole thing feels like a giant comic book/video game come to life. ...

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

reviewed on August 24th, 2010 07:05AM

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO involves a complex mystery, and characters that have to do their research, dig into the past, and uncover the truth, but the biggest mystery of the whole thing just may be its heroine. I'm amazed by this girl, Lisbe...

The Expendables

reviewed on August 13th, 2010 02:34PM

THE EXPENDABLES is an action masterpiece. It's up there with the big boys. It's an instant classic. Really. It has all the ingredients for such a film, including the macho moralities of camaraderie, loyalty, betrayal, and unflinching badassness in...

The Other Guys

reviewed on August 12th, 2010 11:04AM

Stop me if you've heard this one before: two unlikely partners team up, they don't get along at first, they stumble on to a big case, things get out of hand and they're taken off the case, they pursue it anyway, they become friends, they become he...

District 9

reviewed on July 31st, 2010 05:27PM

For the longest time- ever since it was first released- people have been telling me how great this DISTRICT 9 movie was. Friends and coworkers raved about it, it received endless positive reviews from critics, and of course, it was nominated for t...

Dinner for Schmucks

reviewed on July 30th, 2010 02:32PM

What can you really say about a movie like DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS? You'll probably be able to guess most of what happens in it and exactly how it will end before even seeing it. But, who cares? Not every Hollywood movie can be the most original, grou...

Shutter Island

reviewed on July 26th, 2010 08:51PM

"Insanity's not a choice, Marshall. You can't just choose to get over it." So, a bit of the way through SHUTTER ISLAND, the two U.S. Marshalls played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo are drenched in a rainstorm and have to change from thei...

Inception

reviewed on July 16th, 2010 01:15PM

Inception is a very impressive movie in that it works spectacularly well as a big action/thriller blockbuster with plenty of awesome, edge-of-your-seat sequences, and as an original, thought-provoking science fiction film. All too often a film lik...

Predators

reviewed on July 12th, 2010 05:33PM

If you're a big fan of movies where characters speak softly and dramatically and try to explain everything that is happening, then PREDATORS just may be right up your alley. But I personally found it to be exhausting. 90% of the dialogue is tediou...

Terminator Salvation

reviewed on June 28th, 2010 04:29PM

Trailers for Terminator Salvation looked pretty badass but when I started to hear it kind of sucked, I wasn't too excited for it anymore and decided to avoid it. Well, I finally saw it. Here are some thoughts: -Terminator 3 and Terminator Salva...

She's Out of My League

reviewed on June 22nd, 2010 07:34AM

There's something oddly comforting about seeing Jay Baruchel take on the lead role in a movie like this. That skinny, goofy, twitchy Canadian feels almost like family, having noticed him ever since the days when he was co-host of Popular Mechanics...

Toy Story 3

reviewed on June 19th, 2010 07:52PM

I'm a firm believer that the greatest threat to a young man's beloved childhood toys is his own mother. Yes, I speak from my own experience. Oh, how many various boxes and bags of awesome toys were 'accidentally' thrown away or sent to goodwill wh...

Sherlock Holmes

reviewed on June 11th, 2010 07:29AM

I was surprised and pleased that even though it's a period piece, Sherlock Holmes does actually feel like a Guy Ritchie movie. Some directors are more masterful than others with using slow motion techniques, and I felt that it was done effectively...

Hot Tub Time Machine

reviewed on June 9th, 2010 06:56AM

This movie is ridiculous. But, it knows it's ridiculous, takes pride in it even, and just has fun with itself. It's sort of a love letter to the 1980's and plays out the male fantasy of the middle-aged loser getting a chance to fix everything that...

A Nightmare on Elm Street

reviewed on June 8th, 2010 02:30PM

Like it or not, A Nightmare On Elm Street 2010 speaks to a new generation. This is a sad generation of repression and apparent Attention Deficit Disorder, with sad, stupid parents, who would rather pump their kids full of pills than confront any i...

Iron Man 2

reviewed on June 7th, 2010 03:10PM

The first Iron Man came at a perfect time when we all had a dormant desire (or maybe a not-so-dormant desire) to see a hero kick some terrorist ass. There were plenty of stereotypically evil, war-hungry, middle-eastern terrorists that met their fa...

Splice

reviewed on June 4th, 2010 04:27PM

Splice is one of the few big movies out this summer that isn't a sequel, spin-off, remake, re-imagining, or anything like that. However, I'd hardly say it's original. We all know that the whole "scientists screwing with the laws of nature" concept...

Kick-Ass

reviewed on April 18th, 2010 02:46PM

Kick-Ass is more grim of a movie than I thought it would be, and not as much of a laugh-riot satire that I expected. It has the teenage situations, potty mouth, and pop-culture references of something like Superbad, but gradually takes a nose-dive...

Avatar

reviewed on February 28th, 2010 04:54PM

I think what makes Avatar such an enjoyable movie is that it feels like an amalgamation of the big movies we already know and love. It's like someone put Aliens, Titanic, Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, Star Wars, and countless other things in a...

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