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The Artist

Screens: What price Hollywood? - They gave great face when silence was golden By Corey Hall 12/22/2011

We Bought a Zoo

We Bought a Zoo

Screens: Zoo-lander - It even coaxed a tear from our jaundiced critic! By Jeff Meyers 12/22/2011

The Adventures of Tintin

The Adventures of Tintin

Screens: European intervention - A retro-futurist attempt to look forward and backward simultaneously By Corey Hall 12/21/2011

Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows

Screens: True bromance - From Paris to Germany to Switzerland, Holmes and Watson face assassins, booby-traps and a super-smart adversary By Jeff Meyers 12/16/2011

Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol

Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol

Screens: Cruise control - MI-4 had just enough personality to uphold its eye-popping action and dizzying stunts By Jeff Meyers 12/16/2011

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Screens: By the book - Stylish but lacking, this by-the-numbers film adaptation could have done more By Jeff Meyers 12/21/2011

Shame

Screens: Walking dead - My name is Brandon, and I'm a sex addict By Corey Hall 12/14/2011

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby

Screens: Dirty launderer - Former tough guy CIA director gets his close-up By Corey Hall 12/14/2011

My Week with Marilyn

My Week with Marilyn

Screens: Wing-a-ding fling - A nobody makes it with the most desired woman on earth By Corey Hall 11/23/2011

Melancholia

Screens: Depression porn - Incredible cast, and Lars von Trier hasn't been this alive in years By Jeff Meyers 11/23/2011

Anonymous

Screens: Bard's dirty little secret? - Oh, let's not quibble over who wrote what! By Jeff Meyers 10/27/2011

Blackthorn

Screens: Gun shy - A beautifully shot and acted yarn despite a moody misfire By Jeff Meyers 10/27/2011

The Rum Diary

Screens: Bottoms up! - Johnny Depp's fetishistic folly for Hunter S. Thompson By Corey Hall 10/27/2011

In Time

Screens: Youth worshipper - Your wife, mother, dad and husband all look like your classmates. Better hurry! By Corey Hall 10/27/2011

Love Crime

Screens: Love bites — Double-crossing, pill-popping neurotics and personal power plays. Cat fight! By Jeff Meyers 10/26/2011

Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Screens: Say it loud! By Corey Hall 10/26/2011

Paranormal Activity 3

Paranormal Activity 3

Screens: Ghoul bumps - A peek-a-boo flick with invisible terror that doesn't suck? By Corey Hall 10/20/2011

The Way

Screens: All in the family - Emilio Estevez shows he's no slouch, with his old man in tow By Jeff Meyers 10/21/2011

Thunder Soul

Screens: Groove is in the heart - How music changed the lives of an unlikely inner-city high school band By Corey Hall 10/6/2011

My Afternoons with Marguerite

My Afternoons with Marguerite

Screens: Just Depardieu it - As mainstream as the French can be By Corey Hall 10/14/2011

The Thing

Screens: Monster mashup - With its slimy phallic tendrils to its ugly shrieks, it's an ungodly nightmare come to life. And? By Jeff Meyers 10/14/2011

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness

Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness

Screens: Unironic ending - Erudite yet accessible doc eyes the life of the Yiddish Mark Twaine By Jeff Meyers 10/12/2011

Footloose

Screens: Bacon bits - Or the same old song and dance By Corey Hall 10/12/2011

The Big Year

Screens: Fowl farce - What were Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson thinking? By Jeff Meyers 10/13/2011

Weekend

Screens: Like lovers do - A well wrought tête-à-tête involving two men who lead very different lives By Bret McCabe 10/14/2011

Margaret

Screens: Sweet solipsism of youth - Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret is an ambitious overreach By Jeff Meyers 10/7/2011

Ides of March

Screens: President gas - George Clooney riffs on good people sacrificing principles in a slick package with great actors. By Jeff Meyers 10/6/2011

Thunder Soul

Screens: Groove is in the heart - How music changed the lives of an unlikely inner-city high school band By Corey Hall 10/6/2011

Real Steel

Screens: Tin-can sluggerfest - Forget nuance and unconvincing drama; this white-knuckler still miraculously packs a punch By Corey Hall 10/5/2011

Restless

Screens: Emo love - Gus Van Sant blurs the lines between edgy art-house and Lifetime disease-of-the-week By Jeff Meyers 10/5/2011

Life, Above All

Life, Above All

Screens: Despair to where? - South African melodrama of love and perseverance in the face of AIDS By Corey Hall 9/29/2011

50/50

Screens: Chemo sweetness - More than just a bro-banter-spiced take on Terms of Endearment By Jeff Meyers 9/30/2011

Machine Gun Preacher

Machine Gun Preacher

Screens: Godsploitation! - A born-again Rambo kicks ass for the Lord By Jeff Meyers 9/29/2011

Dream House

Screens: Paperback writer - Daniel Craig gets all creepy on Naomi Watts and Rachel Weisz — but the little girls understand By Corey Hall 9/30/2011

Where Soldiers Come From

Where Soldiers Come From

Screens: Nobody's heroes - Following a trio of Michigan boys sent off to a bloody, pointless war By Corey Hall 9/28/2011

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

Screens: Hillybilly slasher! - Splatter and slapstick — two great tastes that taste great together By Jeff Meyers 9/28/2011

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Mozart's Sister

Screens: Second fiddle - It's not easy being a Mozart sibling By Jeff Meyers 9/26/2011

Moneyball

Screens: Field of schemes - Pitt and Hill shine, turning the old diamond into a vestige of self-doubt and triumph By Jeff Meyers 9/22/2011

Bellflower

Screens: Love Stinks - First comes love and then madness By Jeff Meyers 9/22/2011

The Killer Elite

The Killer Elite

Screens: Filler elite - Not exactly Sam Peckinpah, even with De Niro, Statham and Owen By Jeff Meyers 9/22/2011

$I Don\$

I Don't Know How She Does It

Screens: Huh? - A movie so culturally tone deaf it makes The Company Men look like Mean Streets. By Corey Hall 9/21/2011

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

Screens: Hang on loosely - Shapeshifers! Spontaneous combustions! Kung fu! Andy Lau! Talking deer! Neat!. By Corey Hall 9/21/2011

Drive

Screens: Who's gonna drive you home? - Michael Mann meets David Lynch meets Jean-Pierre Melville and starring Ryan Gosling? Hell, yes. By Jeff Meyers 9/16/2011

Dreaming in color

Dreaming in color

Culture: A fading movie landmark gets a little help from some friends By Detroitblogger John 9/21/2011

Contagion

Screens: Global illage - Killer microbes rove the world — and Gweneth Paltrow's head gets cut open! By Corey Hall 9/8/2011

Warrior

Screens: Brothers, keepers - A surprisingly good film — and Nick Nolte makes a welcome return to relevance By Corey Hall 9/7/2011

Creature

Screens: The horror - Wow. This movie sucks — even as a joke. By Corey Hall 9/9/2011

Brighton Rock

Screens: Life of Riley - Crime caper rocks seaside darkness, style and grit By Corey Hall 9/7/2011

The Future

Screens: Family twee - Loopy narrative derailed by its own tricks By Corey Hall 9/1/2011

Attack the Block

Attack the Block

Screens: Space invaders - South London reprobates learn a few life lessons By Corey Hall 8/27/2011

The Debt

Screens: The surgeon of Birkenau - Hunting for Nazi Dieter Vogel By Corey Hall 8/31/2011

$Don\$

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Screens: Creepy as she goes - Adderall-addicted kid gets the bejesus scared out of her — and you too By Jeff Meyers 8/27/2011

Vanishing point

Vanishing point

Screens: Formula One great Ayrton Senna lived an incredible life until he hit the wall By Corey Hall 8/19/2011

Our Idiot Brother

Our Idiot Brother

Screens: Oh, brother - Paul Rudd is a Capraesque re-imagining of 'Dude' Lebowski By Jeff Meyers 8/26/2011

Fright Night

Screens: Dragula - Colin Farrell and Toni Collette are not supposed to be zombies in horror reboot By Jeff Meyers 8/19/2011

The Names of Love

The Names of Love

Screens: Extremism & laughter - Here's one way to cure right-wing dudes of fascistic tendencies By Jeff Meyers 8/24/2011

No rain today

Screens: A philosophical examination of the personal, political and cosmic, in beautiful terms By Jeff Meyers 8/12/2011

Conan the Barbarian

Conan the Barbarian

Screens: Barbaric! - Who doesn't love brawny heroes burping blunt caveman mantras? By Corey Hall 8/19/2011

The Guard

Screens: Irish beauty - Don Cheadle and Brendan Gleeson buddy up in a beautifully black-hearted and cheeky cop movie By Jeff Meyers 8/17/2011

Hobo With a Shotgun

Hobo With a Shotgun

Screens: Loaded for gore: Severed heads, sprayed brains, lopped limbs and sleazy fun! By Corey Hall 7/5/2011

Sarah's Key

Screens: Past imperfect: Nothing like using a history-altering genocide for a blue-blood’s personal self-actualization By Jeff Meyers 7/29/2011

The Whistleblower

The Whistleblower

Screens: Profit before decency - U.S military contractors who kidnapped, tortured and brutally prostituted teenage girls By Jeff Meyers 8/26/2011

Monte Carlo

Screens: Shootin’ cheese: Jaunting through Europe with precocious teens was never so dull By Corey Hall 6/30/2011

Larry Crowne

Screens: A movie for grandma: Nerdy Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts meet and fall in love — and that’s it By Jeff Meyers 6/30/2011

Page One

Screens: Fit to print: A fascinating, complicated documentary record of the ‘paper of record’ By Jeff Meyers 7/1/2011

Transformers: Dark of the Moon

Screens: Transmission failure: More Michael Bay and his suspense-free revenge and violence. Oh, boy! By Jeff Meyers 6/30/2011

Blank City

Screens: Blank generation: Doc on Manhattan’s gritty early ’80s scene struts its style but lacks substance By Jeff Meyers 7/5/2011

Cars 2

Screens: Crash and burn: The dream factory squeezes out a lemon By Corey Hall 6/24/2011

Angel of Evil

Screens: Guns n’ lira: Jail breaks, bank heists, thick mustaches and a gangster heartthrob … And? By Jeff Meyers 6/24/2011

Bad Teacher

Screens: Hot for teacher: Cameron Diaz gets a hard A+ in a film that barely stays out of detention. By Corey Hall 6/24/2011

American: The Bill Hicks Story

American: The Bill Hicks Story

Screens: Hicksville: Bill Hicks is quite possibly rolling around in his grave By Corey Hall 6/27/2011

The Trip

Screens: Frenemies for life: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon drive each other batty By Corey Hall 6/29/2011

$Conan O\$

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

Screens: From a pity party to a hilarious and fascinating backstage exposé By Corey Hall 6/22/2011

The Art of Getting By

Screens: Teenage rebellion was never so privileged and mopey By Corey Hall 6/17/2011

Into Eternity

Screens: This doc about a plan to bury nuclear waste gets heady in a hurry By Jeff Meyers 6/17/2011

Beginners

Screens: Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor make this coming-out yarn soar By Corey Hall 6/17/2011

Rejoice and Shout

Rejoice and Shout

Screens: Gospel doc abounds with great performances, but wears the cross on its sleeve By Jeff Meyers 6/17/2011

Submarine

Screens: Yummy yarn of unrequited love and cockeyed social conduct By Corey Hall 6/22/2011

Tree of Life

Screens: Moving, frustrating, provocative and tedious, Malick almost delivers a masterpiece of poetic cinema By Jeff Meyers 6/10/2011

Super 8

Screens: Spielberg homage can't decide which '80s flick to imitate so tries to do 'em all By Jeff Meyers 6/10/2011

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class

Screens: Superheroes never have to grow up, ever! By Jeff Meyers 6/8/2011

13 Assassins

Screens: Asia's Tarantino kills it with a classic, rousing samurai film By Corey Hall 6/8/2011

Midnight in Paris

Midnight in Paris

Screens: Owen Wilson wins in Woody Allen's nostalgic trip that sees old Papa, Scott and Zelda appear By Lydia Munnell 6/8/2011

Incendies

Screens: Gut-wrenching revelations and drama explode like perfectly timed roadside bombs By Jeff Meyers 6/1/2011

The Hangover Part II

The Hangover Part II

Screens: Second verse, same as the first ... By Corey Hall 6/1/2011

Kung Fu Panda 2

Kung Fu Panda 2

Screens: Po and the Furious Five come out swingin' By Jeff Meyers 6/1/2011

The First Grader

The First Grader

Screens: The First Grader aggressively uplifts above any flaws By Corey Hall 6/1/2011

Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

Screens: You're a target, wherever you are By Corey Hall 5/18/2011

$Meek\$

Meek's Cutoff

Screens: Meek's Cutoff is a worthy return to the deconstructionist western By Corey Hall 5/18/2011

The Beaver

Screens: Here's one way up from the bottom By Corey Hall 5/20/2011

Forks Over Knives

Forks Over Knives

Screens: Meat kills: But this doc puts you to sleep By Corey Hall 5/20/2011

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Screens: Even Johnny Depp's glimmer twin gag can't float this one By Jeff Meyers 5/20/2011

$L\$

L'Amour Fou

Screens: Going beyond the frippery of haute couture into a very private life By Corey Hall 5/25/2011

Thor

Screens: Enough superhero verve, gravitas and Natalie Portman to overcome any obviousness By Jeff Meyers 5/6/2011

Jumping the Broom

Jumping the Broom

Screens: A jump above Tyler Perry dregs, but still ... By Corey Hall 5/11/2011

In a Better World

In a Better World

Screens: Where slushy moralizing meets lawless cruelty By Jeff Meyers 5/6/2011

Something Borrowed

Something Borrowed

Screens: Really? Kate Hudson in a wedding dress? By Corey Hall 5/6/2011

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Screens: Werner Herzog turns you on in a 3-D show of ancient beauty By Corey Hall 5/4/2011

Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires)

Heartbeats (Les Amours Imaginaires)

Screens: Desperately hip Montreal trio looking for sex and love By Corey Hall 4/29/2011

Hoodwinked Too!: Hood vs. Evil

Hoodwinked Too!: Hood vs. Evil

Screens: Shrek-wannabe works hard to get everything wrong By Jeff Meyers 4/29/2011

Fast Five

Screens: All sing Michael Bay' hymn of more is more By Jeff Meyers 4/29/2011

Rubber

Screens: A self-reflexive and ironic trip down 'no reason' road By Jeff Meyers 4/27/2011

Water for Elephants

Water for Elephants

Screens: Less Pattinson and more pachyderm, please By Jeff Meyers 4/25/2011

Queen to Play

Screens: And overcoming class and gender differences By Corey Hall 4/20/2011

The Princess of Montpensier

The Princess of Montpensier

Screens: Turning cliché into epic storytelling and realistic battle scenes By Jeff Meyers 4/20/2011

Potiche

Screens: Deneuve and Depardieu: An homage in retro char By Corey Hall 4/20/2011

My Heart Is an Idiot

My Heart Is an Idiot

Screens: Trapped in a van with a guy who's constantly obsessing ... over two girls By Jeff Meyers 4/20/2011

Le Quattro Volte

Le Quattro Volte

Screens: Birth, death, work, play and goats By Jeff Meyers 4/15/2011

Scream 4

Screens: Cinematic grave-robbing...but the sharp end of a butcher's knife still hurts like a mo-fo. By Jeff Meyers 4/15/2011

Rio

Screens: In 'sunny,' 'breezy' and 'lively' Rio By Jeff Meyers 4/15/2011

The Conspirator

The Conspirator

Screens: Robert Redford tackles Abe's post-assassination frenzy By Corey Hall 4/15/2011

Meet Monica Velour

Meet Monica Velour

Screens: Kim Cattrell shows a porn star's route to the bottom By Corey Hall 4/15/2011

I Saw the Devil

I Saw the Devil

Screens: Detailed with sufficient invention to compel you beyond the gag reflex By Corey Hall 4/13/2011

Super

Screens: Cross a transgressive fairy tale with subversive black comedy By Jeff Meyers 4/13/2011

Your Highness

Screens: Prolonged assault on good taste held together by James Franco and Natalie Portman By Corey Hall 4/8/2011

Hanna

Screens: A doe-eyed Rambette who can dispatch enemies with frightening aplomb By Jeff Meyers 4/8/2011

Arthur

Screens: Russell Brand continues to dilute his own, um, brand By Corey Hall 4/8/2011

Insidious

Screens: James Wan trades geek trick violence for real chills - at first By Jeff Meyers 4/1/2011

Source Code

Screens: Highly watchable popcorn flick seasoned with enough smarts and heart By Jeff Meyers 4/1/2011

Hop

Screens: A kind of Easter-time concoction sweetened for easy consumption By Corey Hall 4/1/2011

Win Win

Screens: Beneath the surface of ordinary suburbia By Jeff Meyers 4/1/2011

Of Gods and Men

Of Gods and Men

Screens: Forget any righteous, Wal-Mart approach to faith and see this By Jeff Meyers 4/6/2011

Certified Copy

Screens: Lush, beautiful and lyrical but without sensitivity By Corey Hall 3/30/2011

Sucker Punch

Screens: Like watching a first-person shooter stuck in God Mode By Jeff Meyers 3/25/2011

Kill the Irishman

Kill the Irishman

Screens: Detroit is the real star - alongside Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio and Christopher Walken By Jeff Meyers 3/23/2011

Jane Eyre

Screens: With so many interpretations is there any life left in the old girl? Yes! By Corey Hall 3/23/2011

Kaboom

Screens: Gregg 'Doom Generation' Araki's lastest yarn sticks to his formula, the old in-out, in-out By Corey Hall 3/18/2011

Limitless

Screens: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro put the 'high' back into 'high concept' and better living through drugs By Corey Hall 3/18/2011

The Lincoln Lawyer

The Lincoln Lawyer

Screens: Taut, well-made entertainment supported by Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei and Ryan Phillipe By Corey Hall 3/18/2011

Paul

Screens: Confusing Seth Rogen show has its shiny moments under so much Star Wars referencing By Corey Hall 3/18/2011

Budrus

Screens: Where a nonviolent protest in the Middle East seems like a fantasy By Corey Hall 3/16/2011

Red Riding Hood

Red Riding Hood

Screens: Dull, humorless, and incompetently soapy slog — except for Gary Oldman By Jeff Meyers 3/11/2011

Marwencol

Screens: Head trauma and the transformational power of creative expression By Jeff Meyers 3/11/2011

Even the Rain

Screens: Polemical tale spans centuries with an authentically gritty tone By Jeff Meyers 3/11/2011

Battle: Los Angeles

Battle: Los Angeles

Screens: Mankind? Nah. We got aliens, armies and blow-it-up bombast! By Jeff Meyers 3/11/2011

Drive Angry 3D

Screens: Unabashedly trashy, tasteless and appallingly stupid, but in 3-D so real you'll almost wipe the exploding body parts off your face By Corey Hall 2/25/2011

Hall Pass

Screens: Hollywood has another go making fun of the stupider sex By Corey Hall 2/28/2011

Unknown

Screens: A good caper with some Euro trash, hot women and a Rod Serling-worthy finish By Corey Hall 2/18/2011

Cedar Rapids

Screens: Easily amuses without the big guffaws By Jeff Meyers 2/18/2011

The Housemaid

Screens: Stylish compositions and artful performances drive this perverse family soap opera By Jeff Meyers 2/16/2011

Just Go With It

Just Go With It

Screens: New Sandler vehicle uses motion picture as dick-joke delivery system By Corey Hall 2/11/2011

The Eagle

Screens: A modern update would cheer a Marine as he slaughtered Afghans to retrieve a pretty U.S. flag By Jeff Meyers 2/10/2011

Sanctum

Screens: Sodden adventure fraught with disaster-movie clichés and characters you hope drown By Corey Hall 2/4/2011

Vision

Screens: A renaissance woman long before thereever was a Renaissance By Jeff Meyers 2/4/2011

2011 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

2011 Academy Award Nominated Short Films

Screens: Hollywood's unlikely Oscar heroes By Corey Hall 2/9/2011

$Barney\$

Barney's Version

Screens: Paul Giamatti shows why he's great, saves Barney By Jeff Meyers 2/9/2011

The Company Men

The Company Men

Screens: Smugly self-satisfied yarn of entitled rich white dudes suffering self-created problems By Jeff Meyers 1/28/2011

The Mechanic

Screens: Assassin-gets-a-conscience storyline sports some testicular proficiency By Jeff Meyers 1/28/2011

The Rite

Screens: Light on gore, this rite's a snore By Corey Hall 1/28/2011

Another year

Screens: Mike Leigh shows there's such a thing in life as 'too late' By Jeff Meyers 2/2/2011

Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune

Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune

Screens: How Phil Ochs' song of social injustice, oppression and the horrors of war rose and fell By Corey Hall 2/2/2011

Howl

Screens: So a hipster and a rabbi walk into a courtroom ... By Corey Hall 1/26/2011

The Illusionist

The Illusionist

Screens: A visual delight and melancholic love story that rises above its flaws By Jeff Meyers 1/26/2011

Lemmy

Screens: This new rockumentary on the life of the storied Motörhead frontman By Brett Callwood 1/26/2011

No Strings Attached

No Strings Attached

Screens: Natalie Portman is great, but do all these people think it's 1985? By Corey Hall 1/21/2011

Rabbit Hole

Screens: Further proof that great plays often make tepid cinema By Jeff Meyers 1/21/2011

Client 9: The rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer

Client 9: The rise and fall of Eliot Spitzer

Screens: It's life: The bad guys win and we get schtupped By Jeff Meyers 1/19/2011

The Dilemma

Screens: Howard's end: A chick flick with dicks By Jeff Meyers 1/14/2011

Green Hornet

Screens: What happens when a stoner and a visual genius team up to make a blockbuster? Exactly. By Corey Hall 1/14/2011

Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Public Enemy

Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Public Enemy

Screens: DFT kicks its new season off with a harrowing and brisk cinematic shot By Jeff Meyers 1/12/2011

Somewhere

Screens: Showbiz is a drag: There's substance (abuse) and then there's self-pity By Corey Hall 1/12/2011

Blue Valentine

Screens: Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling soar as doomed lovers By Corey Hall 1/12/2011

Country Strong

Screens: Well shucks, that little old Gwinnie sure is a ball of fire, ain't she? By Corey Hall 1/7/2011

Casino Jack

Screens: Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a scumbag - a shame we don't see it all By Jeff Meyers 1/5/2011

All Good Things

All Good Things

Screens: Acting isn't enough - but Kirsten Dunst turns in a stunner of a performance By Jeff Meyers 1/5/2011

I Love You Phillip Morris

I Love You Phillip Morris

Screens: True story of a charismatic con man becomes the most unusual comedy of Carrey's career By Corey Hall 12/29/2010

Made in Dagenham

Made in Dagenham

Screens: Women work it out - in a labor picture, no less By Corey Hall 12/29/2010

Tron: Legacy

Screens: At least it has the look and feel of something that's eyepoppingly great. By Jeff Meyers 12/17/2010

The Fighter

Screens: A family slugfest of Oscar proportion By Jeff Meyers 12/17/2010

How Do You Know

How Do You Know

Screens: Pretty good for movies that's overwritten, exasperating and bogged down By Corey Hall 12/17/2010

White Material

Screens: Isabelle Huppert stuns in story of a family ripped apart By Corey Hall 12/17/2010

Yogi Bear

Screens: Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake and Anna Faris! By Corey Hall 12/17/2010

Little Fockers

Screens: Like an unloved, regifted fruitcake, the movie keeps coming back By Corey Hall 12/22/2010

True Grit

Screens: The Coen brothers are at their most accessible revisiting the Duke's Oscar-winner from 1969 By Jeff Meyers 12/22/2010

Love and Other Drugs

Screens: Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal spend lots of time rolling about naked By Corey Hall 12/15/2010

Black Swan

Screens: Wild swans: Natalie Portman and Darren Aronofsky's oddly alluring flight By Jeff Meyers 12/10/2010

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Screens: What hath C.S. Lewis wrought? By Jeff Meyers 12/10/2010

The Tourist

Screens: Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie lack chemistry in this overly beautiful and inert actioner By Corey Hall 12/10/2010

Tiny Furniture

Screens: Get beyond the it's-all-about-me ennui and there's a film lurking somewhere By Jeff Meyers 12/6/2010

Leaving

Screens: Shallow update of Lady Chatterley's Lover with a little Madame Bovary rolled in By Jeff Meyers 12/6/2010

Tangled

Screens: Think of it as Rapunzel 2.0, an updated tale of a beautiful young princess By Jeff Meyers 11/24/2010

Burlesque

Screens: A series of Christina Aguilera music vids separated by a pantomime of hoary clichés By Corey Hall 11/24/2010

The Next Three Days

The Next Three Days

Screens: Russell Crowe's prolonged exercise in nerve-rattling tension By Corey Hall 11/19/2010

Love and Other Drugs

Screens: Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal spend lots of time rolling about naked By Corey Hall 11/19/2010

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

Screens: Go. Don't go. Nothing I write will make a difference. Still here? Very well. By Jeff Meyers 11/19/2010

Fair Game

Screens: Bristles with the outrage of a still-raw nerve By Corey Hall 11/19/2010

127 Hours

Screens: Danny Boyle and James Franco's latest film is better than it has any right to be By Jeff Meyers 11/19/2010

Today's Special

Screens: Nice cooking equates to soul metaphor movie By Corey Hall 11/17/2010

My Dog Tulip

Screens: Lots of honesty, humanity and humor, though a tad discomfiting at times By Jeff Meyers 11/17/2010

Morning Glory

Screens: Harrison Ford actually comes alive in this cheery rom com By Corey Hall 11/11/2010

Tamara Drewe

Screens: Sending up pretentious writers should be easier - and a whole lot funnier By Jeff Meyers 11/10/2010

Inside Job

Screens: You'll leave the theater better informed and more furious than ever By Corey Hall 11/3/2010

$The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\$

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Screens: Dark and glacially paced way to wrap up a trilogy By Jeff Meyers 10/27/2010

Stone

Screens: A 'serious' intent and an ill-fitting hilljack argot reduce Stone to a pebble of a fil By Corey Hall 10/22/2010

Hereafter

Knocking on heaven's door: Who knew conversing with the dead was so much like a visit to the therapist? By Jeff Meyers 10/22/2010

Conviction

Screens: Hilary Swank shows more grit and pluck than a KFC in the Sahara By Corey Hall 10/20/2010

Carlos

Screens: Following a Venezualan's decade-long climb up the global terror ladder By Jeff Meyers 10/20/2010

The Tillman Story

The Tillman Story

Screens: The tragic details of a football hero's death and the ugly efforts of deceitful career generals to hide the truth By Jeff Meyers 10/13/2010

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Screens: Woody refuses to burn out or fade away, opting instead to simply become irrelevant By Jeff Meyers 10/13/2010

I Spit on Your Grave

I Spit on Your Grave

Screens: Was there really any reason to remake this? By Corey Hall 10/13/2010

Secretariat

Screens: Secretariat is as sturdy and dependable as the stud it's named after. Plus, the ever-lovely Diane Lane! By Corey Hall 10/13/2010

Nowhere Boy

Screens: Handsomely composed minor-key effort By Jeff Meyers 10/13/2010

$It\$

It's Kind of A Funny Story

Screens: The title kind of says it all By Corey Hall 10/13/2010

The Social Network

The Social Network

Screens: Feeding frenzy: Or the portrait of a Facebook's billionaire asshole as a younger man By Jeff Meyers 10/6/2010

Let Me In

Screens: Could teen torment ever be this moody? By Jeff Meyers 10/6/2010

Jack Goes Boating

Jack Goes Boating

Screens: A fine cast salvages an indie-drama boilerplate By Corey Hall 10/6/2010

Hatchet II

Screens: Not even a gnarly beheading can rescue this chop job By Corey Hall 10/6/2010

Ghettophysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hoes Please Stand Up?

Ghettophysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hoes Please Stand Up?

Screens: The argument: All human power dynamics come down to the basic street hustle By Corey Hall 10/6/2010

Behind the Burly Q

Behind the Burly Q

Screens: Revealing doc tells all about the sassy gals of the vaudeville stage By Corey Hall 10/6/2010

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