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- Good Kill – An artistic exploration of drone assassinations
- Citizenfour – a fascinating and important topic, but a disappointing documentary
- Interstellar – Probably the best film of the year, certainly the most enjoyable!
- Laggies – a delightful little film about late-blooming misfits
- Two Days, One Night – it’s (almost) exactly what you expect it to be
- Whiplash – a disgusting, stupidly manipulative piece of absurdity.
- Still Alice – big stars, big production, but still just a Hallmark movie of the week
- Wild – it’s surprisingly well-made and fun to watch
- Black Sea – diverting, but sadly predictable
- Birdman (Or the Expected Emptiness of Pretension)
- Mr. Turner – Planet of the Ape
- The Imitation Game – It’s an abomination
- A Brief Word on the 2014 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts
- Kill The Messenger – The important and tragic story of Gary Webb, the mainstream media, and the CIA
- This is Where I Leave You – the latest in a long line of “family reunion” movies
- A review of summer cinema – it was pretty grim!
- The Trip to Italy – It never should have been made
- A Most Wanted Man – Superficially entertaining, but poorly-made and overrated
- Magic in the Moonlight – It’s pissing me off!
- The Purge: Anarchy – Surprisingly, it’s rather good
- I Origins – ambitious and entertaining
- Boyhood – a bit one dimensional, but its one dimension is lovely, impressive and fun to experience
- Obvious Child – cute, dignified and gutsy
- Snowpiercer – a fantastic, riveting science fiction action allegory
- Edge of Tomorrow – it’s fairly entertaining
- Begin Again – confronting the future of pop music head-on
- The Fault in Our Stars – not super-moving, but definitely enjoyable
- Hellion – a gritty tale of fucked up parents and children
- Night Moves – a cool, subtle portrayal of hippy-liberal activism turned violent
- Cold In July – an outstandingly fun and unusual film, and a paean for the 1980s
- Austenland – so horrible, I’m speechless
- Elena – 80 minutes of torture
- Lucky Them – Toni Collette takes center stage and lights up the screen!
- Belle – it means well, but God is it slow (and dull)
- Finding Vivian Maier – an okay documentary on a fascinating artist
- The German Doctor (Wakolda) – Diverting, but feels more than a little contrived
- Chef – it’s heart is in the right place
- Jodorowsky’s Dune – a bizarre and amazing documentary
- Hateship, Loveship – it goes down well
- Divergent – entertaining, but there’s a lot wrong with it
Category Archives: 2009
Sherlock Holmes – Victorian Robo-Warrior
This film grated on my nerves. I held my ears for much of it, it is so loud and irritating. The jangling music nearly drove me insane. It features many scenes where frighteningly large metal objects fly through the air … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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It’s Complicated – It’s Disappointing
Despite the fun and promising preview for It’s Complicated, it turned out to be a disappointment. It has major script problems and in my opinion almost everyone in the film is miscast. Basically, in the first third, Alec Baldwin holds … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
Tagged Alec Baldwin, Holiday, It's Complicated, Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Movie Review, Nancy Meyers, Steve Martin
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Did You Hear About the Morgans? – please: enough with Sarah Jessica Parker already
At first pass the problem with Did You Hear About the Morgans? is the weak and uninspired script. But then you remember that Hugh Grant is so talented he routinely pulls off mediocre crap. So what really went wrong? Three … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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Loot – more about the horrors of war than about treasure hunting
Loot was not at all what I expected. It is advertised as a treasure hunting documentary, where a real-life Indiana Jones helps these two veterans of WWII try to find caches of war loot that they buried oversees at the … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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Uncertainty – talented actors get a chance to shine
I liked Uncertainty, which I saw with my wife at the IFC theater in Manhattan. As I have mentioned in prior reviews, I am a big fan of Joseph Gordon Levitt and have been waiting for him to finally get … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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Me and Orson Welles – see it for Christian McKay
I normally do not go for this kind of movie – a humorous chronicle of a wacky production of a play. But in Me and Orson Welles it is done so entertainingly that it won me over. The central reason … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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The Ugly Truth (… about this movie.)
The Ugly Truth is a lame, badly written comedy. Sure Gerard Butler has a few good lines (not great lines, mind you) in the beginning, but this is a highly formulaic robo-comedy, with everything on auto pilot aimed at the … Continue reading
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The Men Who Stare at Goats – funny and entertaining
I enjoyed The Men Who Stare at Goats. It’s pretty funny and entertaining. George Clooney is a true star – he looks great, he has a great voice, and he’s really fun to watch. If you think about his career, … Continue reading
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Where the Wild Things Are – Eli Lilly’s new market
I was so psyched to see this movie, mainly from the preview (which was really well done.) I didn’t love the book as a child, but I liked it a lot. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy watching the film … Continue reading
Posted in 2009
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An Education – worth seeing
I liked An Education. I didn’t love it, but it was very engaging with good performances all around. So nice to see Carey Mulligan (from the fabulous BBC Bleak House miniseries) getting a starring role in a film like this, … Continue reading
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