Movie Review: “Butter”
“Butter” starts out poorly and then, improbably, just gets worse and worse. A broad, unfunny…
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Movie Review: “Frankenweenie”
“Frankenweenie” is as Burtonesque as Tim Burton movies come. It’s also a mess, a parade…
Movie Review: “Looper”
Rian Johnson’s “Looper” has reportedly been in the works for several years, and after watching…
Movie Review: “Hotel Transylvania”
If you just did a quick scan of the cast, it would be fair to…
Movie Review: “Pitch Perfect”
It’s only inevitable that “Pitch Perfect” is going to draw comparisons to “Glee,” but while…
Movie Review: “Les Miserables”
It feels like the setup for a joke: Amanda Seyfried walks into a bar with…
Movie Review: “Dredd”
Most remakes completely fail to justify their existences, taking films that were already popular and…
Movie Review: “Trouble with the Curve”
You’d be hard pressed to find anything more quintessentially American than baseball and Clint Eastwood,…
Movie Review: “Arbitrage”
It’s clear what writer/director Nicholas Jarecki was trying to do with “Arbitrage”: he wanted to…
Movie Review: “The Master”
Five years after his brilliant oil industry pseudo-Western “There Will Be Blood,” writer-director Paul Thomas…