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Friday, August 27,2010
Film Reviews

Get Low

Wake Up: Get Low’s risky tale of forgiveness mostly pays off.

By MaryAnn Johanson
I suppose Aaron Schneider knows a thing or two about how to make a cold, gray, stark wintry movie look even more Great Depression-y ...
Friday, August 27,2010
Film Reviews

Waking Sleeping Beauty

Mouse Appeal: Waking Sleeping Beauty acknowledges that not everything at Disney was a fairy tale.

By Scott Renshaw
Over the years, no movie-industry entity has been as careful at preserving its image as Disney ...
Friday, August 20,2010
Film Reviews

Nanny McPhee Returns

Spoonfuls of Sugar: Nanny McPhee Returns is a bright, silly kindergarten comedy with a lesson.

By MaryAnn Johanson
Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a frazzled mom, and her young children (Asa Butterfield, Lil Woods and Oscar Steer) are a handful ...
Friday, August 20,2010
Film Reviews

Life During Wartime

Gag Me: The self-indulgent Life During Wartime sacrifices emotional punch for punch lines.

By Scott Renshaw
It would be so nice to give Todd Solondz the benefit of the doubt. There’s something going on in Life During Wartime, something beyond the gimmickry ...
Friday, August 13,2010
Film Reviews

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World captures the quirky energy—but not the soul—of its source.

By Scott Renshaw
In Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s cult-hit Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series, the visuals pop with jagged panel-break split-screens ...
Friday, August 13,2010
Film Reviews

The Expendables

Bad Shakespeare: The bad-ass cast of The Expendables sells it—if only just barely.

By MaryAnn Johanson
“Bad Shakespeare,” one badass notes with a sad shake of his head. It’s the perfect phrase for the manly male melodrama that passes for character here ...
Friday, August 6,2010
Film Reviews

The Film Drought of 2010 That Wasn't

We all know this summer's movies are atypically bad—except that they aren't.

By Scott Renshaw
We all know that the movie summer of 2010 has been a dud, a disappointment, a summer of blah unlike any other ...
Friday, August 6,2010
Film Reviews

Countdown to Zero

Fission Hole: Want to be freaked out while simultaneously feeling utterly helpless? Countdown to Zero is for you.

By Scott Renshaw
In the past few years, we’ve seen quite a few issue-oriented documentaries dedicated to making their viewers pants-crappingly afraid of something ...
Friday, July 30,2010
Film Reviews

The Girl Who Played With Fire

Heroine Chic: Lisbeth Salander continues to fascinate, but her latest adventure isn’t worthy of her.

By Scott Renshaw
If you still don’t know who Lisbeth Salander is, you just haven’t been paying very much attention ...
Friday, July 30,2010
Film Reviews

The Killer Inside Me

Psycho Paths: The Killer Inside Me conveys the strange inner life of a man who can get away with murder.

By Scott Renshaw
Lou Ford (Casey Affleck), a sheriff’s deputy in the early 1960s Texas town of Central City, does many deeply disturbing things ...
 
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