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Wednesday, March 10,2010
Feature Review

She's Out of My League

Team Effort: True ensemble work contributes to the hilarity of She's Out of My League.

By Scott Renshaw
For decades, it seemed, cinematic comedy had become the domain of the one-man show ...
Wednesday, March 3,2010
Feature Review

Brooklyn's Finest

Law & Disorder: Brooklyn's Finest avoids a black-and-white portrayal of New York’s men in blue.

By MaryAnn Johanson
Is it because I’m a New Yorker myself that I am generally enthralled by tales of the NYPD?
Wednesday, February 24,2010
Feature Review

The White Ribbon

Village of the Darned: The kids aren’t alright in Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon—and neither is his grim moralizing

By Scott Renshaw
The subtitle of Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon—Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner and Oscar Foreign Language nominee—describes it as “Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte,” or “a German nursery story” ...
Wednesday, February 17,2010
Feature Review

The Last Station

Bait & Switch: Oscar attention shouldn’t scare you away from the romance of The Last Station.

By Scott Renshaw
There are moviegoers who use the annual Academy Awards nominations as a guide for what not to miss in any given year. And then there are movie nerds who view that list with considerably more ... skepticism ...
Wednesday, February 10,2010
Feature Review

Valentine's Day

The Love Bloat: Valentine’s Day dumps too many characters into one romantic anthology.

By Scott Renshaw
Valentine’s Day reminds us of cinema’s long history of successful omnibus romantic films that includes ... um, includes … er, anyone?
Wednesday, February 3,2010
Feature Review

Crazy Heart

Another impressive Jeff Bridges performance lifts the familiar plot mechanics of Crazy Heart.

By Scott Renshaw
If I were picking a Jeff Bridges role that I thought would represent his finest work, and bring him the attention he has so long deserved as one of America’s best actors, it probably wouldn’t be his performance in Crazy Heart ...
Wednesday, January 27,2010
Feature Review

Sundance 2010 Wrap-Up

When the snow cleared at Sundance, the documentaries were way ahead of the fiction films.

By Scott Renshaw
How much do you have to love movies to trudge through a week like this one?
Wednesday, January 20,2010
Feature Review

Slamdance Independent Film Festival

No longer just a rebel festival, Slamdance matures in its teen years.

By Jacob Stringer
The Slamdance Independent Film Festival is now celebrating its Sweet 16. My, how quickly they grow up ...
Wednesday, January 13,2010
Feature Review

The Lovely Bones

Lost in Translation: Peter Jackson’s radical reworking of The Lovely Bones results in a failed thriller.

By Scott Renshaw
On paper, it probably seemed to Peter Jackson that he had a take on Alice Sebold’s The Lovely Bones that was inherently more cinematic—more “movie-ish”—than the story Sebold told ...
Wednesday, January 6,2010
Feature Review

Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call: New Orleans

The Big Sleazy: Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage produce a Bad Lieutenant remake that pops with wild originality.

By Scott Renshaw
Even if you hate remakes, the announcement of Bad Lieutenant—Port of Call: New Orleans had to be at least somewhat easier to take ...
 
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