HAYWIRE - Review by Ann Lewinson
Steven Soderbergh’s latest — starring a women’s mixed martial arts champion — suggests that rumors of his retirement might not be premature. Read more>>
Ann Lewinson
Ann Lewinson is the film critic for the Hartford Advocate, New Haven Advocate and Fairfield Weekly. She has written about movies for The Independent, The Sundance Daily Insider and the Tribeca Film Festival catalogue, classical music for Andante and Stagebill, and environmental activism for Biography. Previously she toiled in the bowels of the film industry as an assistant sound editor on such memorable films as Troma's Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown. Her fiction has appeared in Agni, Hayden's Ferry Review, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center's Special Projects Writers' Series and other publications. She recently completed her first novel.
Articles by Ann Lewinson
THE ARTIST - Review by Ann Lewinson
This charming, if slight, homage to silent movies looks at a transitional era from the perspective of our own. Read more>>
PINA - Review by Ann Lewinson
Wim Wender’s dynamic elegy to German choreographer Pina Bausch is a milestone in 3D filmmaking.
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CONTRABAND - Review by Ann Lewinson
A likable Mark Wahlberg and novel setting can’t save this rote heist thriller. Read more>>
GAINSBOURGH: A HEROIC LIFE - Review by Ann Lewinson
Cartoonist Joann Sfar brings visual wit to this biopic of the controversial French icon, but not much insight. Read more>>
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - Ann Lewinson Reviews
3D finally gets the movie it deserves in this third in the stoner series, which, for all its in-your-face offensiveness, is conservative to the core. Read more>>
Margin Call - Review by Ann Lewinson
J.C. Chandor’s sub-Mamet take on 2008’s financial meltdown manages to be both esoteric and dumbed-down, with dark-night-of-the-soul speeches that would have been better suited to the stage. Read more>>
Tower Heist - Review by Ann Lewinson
Hollywood sticks it to Bernie Madoff in this genially absurd, gently cathartic and slightly stale all-star caper, but it’s Alan Alda who steals the movie. Read more>>
The Rum Diary - Review by Ann Lewinson
Bruce Robinson rewrites Hunter S. Thompson’s coming-of-age novel in the inebriated-buddy image of his Withnail and I, with wickedly quotable dialogue and unabashed moral outrage. Read more>>
Johnny English Reborn - Review by Ann Lewinson
Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling superspy returns in a kiddie comedy that improves markedly on its unwatchable predecessor. Read more>>