In The Kids Are All Right , Julianne Moore and Annette Bening play a married couple raising their two teenage kids in their happy-yet-imperf...

I’ve felt for a while now that Angelina Jolie is a lot like her life counterpart: both are extremely good looking, extremely wealthy, a litt...

I can just imagine the Hollywood pitch meeting: “Okay, so, we open on Adrien Brody falling from the sky. He’s asleep, then he wakes up in ...

Films like Inception are the reason I love movies. It’s smart, original, entertaining and, among other things, effortlessly compelling. ...

Maybe you’ve heard of the “Millennium Trilogy” currently sweeping the globe. Or the fatal circumstances in which Swedish author Stieg Larss...

If the Twilight "saga" demonstrates how to screw up a book-to-film adaptation, then Winter’s Bone is the epitome of how to get it...

When we first meet John - the main character in a movie named after a secondary, less interesting character - he is walked in on while naked...

The Twilight Saga (“saga,” really?) encapsulates everything I hate about most book-to-film adaptations: if you haven’t read the book, you a...

Wow, Sex and the City 2 has some real competition for the worst, most pointless movie of the year. Seriously, why the hell is M. Night Sh...

Admirers of this blog know that animated films don’t really do it for me. This has nothing to do with how good or bad the movie is, I just...

Knight and Day (God what an awful title) is being marketed as the return of Tom Cruise’s Jerry Maguire charm. Which, to some degree, it is...

In the opening scene of Solitary Man , Michael Douglas stands in his doctor’s office, waiting for the prognosis of his EKG. Appropriately ...

All of Nicole Holofcener’s films have a way of slowly evolving that is utterly convincing. In her last film, the wonderful Friends with Mo...

Based on its lackluster trailer and mediocre reviews, I hadn’t the slightest interest in seeing City Island . But then two things happened. ...

Beyond all doubt and suspicion, the new Karate Kid remake is actually good. I didn’t believe it would be, hell, even during the movie I w...