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
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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
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Bruce Robinson rewrites Hunter S. Thompson’s coming-of-age novel in the inebriated-buddy image of his Withnail and I, with wickedly quotable
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Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling superspy returns in a kiddie comedy that improves markedly on its unwatchable predecessor. Read more>>
Read moreParanormal Activity 3 – Review by Ann Lewinson
The Catfish boys take over the fake-doc horror franchise in this third in a series of diminishing returns. Read more>>
Read moreReview: “Real Steel” – Ann Lewinson
Disney’s mash-up of The Champ and a “Twilight Zone” episode (with Hugh Jackman in for Lee Marvin) is a pessimistic
Read moreReview: “Dream House” – Ann Lewinson
Jim Sheridan’s thriller shifts midway from half-hearted haunted-house chills to sub-Hitchcock mind games, but at least Daniel Craig and Rachel
Read moreReview: “The Funeral Crashers” – Ann Lewinson
Gus Van Sant’s latest, oh so twee and sharply attired, may be best appreciated by 12-year-old girls who have never
Read moreReview: “The Tree of Life” – Ann Lewinson
Charlotte Gainsbourg bounces back from Antichrist with an Australian drama that has more to say about mourning than The Tree
Read moreReview: “Machine Gun Preacher” – Ann Lewinson
Gerard Butler plays a real-life biker who went Rambo in southern Sudan in a movie with a white-savior storyline that
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