You’re too big to cry but it hurts too much to laugh. Read more

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, “Sicko” is a sensational 10. It’s not a perfect movie but it will make you think – and the conversations you’ll have afterwards are worth far more than the price of admission. Read more

The key to enjoying the fourth installment in this testosterone-fueled franchise is accepting that it’s a live-action cartoon that makes no effort to conform to the laws of gravity, plausibility or common sense — it’s enough that it seems to hang together during the infrequent quiet moments when thinking is possible. Read More

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, “Live Free or Die Hard” is an invigorating 8, a solid summer popcorn picture. Read more

Emanuel Bronner (1908-1997), the German-born master soapmaker who founded the popular organic brand Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, is memorialized on his tombstone with these words: “A life dedicated to God, mankind and Spaceship Earth.” In Sara Lamm’s intriguing documentary “Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox,” we get to know the complicated man behind those words and the unique family business he created. Along the way, we get something else: genuine inspiration. Read more

Writer-director-cinematographer-editor Nick Gaglia’s debut feature paints a hellish picture of “rehabilitation” in a cult-like atmosphere of abuse, intimidation and humiliation. Read more

How good, and how much fun, is “Ratatouille”? So good that when it was over, all I wanted to do was watch it again. Read more

When it comes to big-screen cartoons, it all started with a mouse. Which makes Remy, “Ratatouille’s” resident rodent, the logical successor to legendary cartoon mice from Mickey to “An American Tail’s” hero, Fievel. Read more

On the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, “Ratatouille” (pronounced by Pixar as “rat-a-too-ee”) is a captivating, inventive, soufflé-light 10. Family audiences will eat it up! Read more

Subtle and unsentimental, Korean-American writer-director So Yong Kim, a multimedia artist, parses the halting assimilation of a Korean teen caught between her childhood back home and the fresh start she’s not quite making in Toronto with her harried single mother.
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