Movie Review: “The Kite Runner”
In the 19th and early 20th century, the British engaged in four colonial wars in…
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Movie Review: “Alvin & the Chipmunks”
The glass-half-full take on “Alvin and the Chipmunks” is that it wasn’t as bad as…
Movie Review: “I Am Legend”
The latest adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel “I Am Legend” is pretty much what…
Movie Review: “Charlie Wilson’s War”
Charlie Wilson’s quite a character. In his first several minutes on the screen, we see…
Movie Review: “9 Star Hotel”
In the interest of minimizing confusion, let’s get something out of the way right off…
Movie Review: “The Golden Compass”
Let’s get the talk of the controversy out of the way, shall we? Catholic groups…
Movie Review: “Exiled”
If you were to compile a list of the best directors currently working in the…
Movie Review: “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Sweeney Todd and Tim Burton: you don’t find spirits more kindred than that. Indeed, it’s…
Movie Review: “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, a high living but apparently healthy 43-year-old editor at French “Elle,”…
Movie Review: “The Walker”
Like 1980’s now-classic “American Gigolo,” and 1992’s vastly underrated “Light Sleeper” (starring Willem Dafoe as…