Full Reviews of Current Movies
- ‘Twilight’: A romance to die for
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By Toni Ruberto
NEWS STAFF
Updated: 11/20/08 9:53 AM
- Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have about 24 hours before their lives irrevocably change.
- 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas': Concentration camp is setting for unlikely friendship
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BY JAN SANDBERG
News Contributing Reviewer
Updated: 11/21/08 10:49 AM
- Could two boys on opposite sides of a concentration camp’s fence really ever develop a friendship?
- 'Bolt': The animal kingdom brings its best in animated tale
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BY JEFF SIMON
Arts Editor
Updated: 11/21/08 10:47 AM
- What an age for animated film we live in. And what a year for it this has been. Over the summer we had “WALL-E”— Pixar’s masterpiece — and now we’ve got “Bolt,” which may well contain the most complex story I’ve ever seen in a kids movie but which didn’t phase the little ones at the promotional screening one bit — and it sure didn’t stop their adorable little laughter or gasps at the scary stuff.
- ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’: Uplifting story from Mike Leigh
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BY JAN SANDBERG
News Contributing Reviewer
Updated: 11/14/08 8:47 AM
- Perhaps British director Mike Leigh found making his last film, “Vera Drake,” as depressing as many filmgoers
found viewing it to be, and decided that his next project should be something funny and uplifting. “Happy-Go-Lucky” certainly fits the bill; it’s a movie audiences are bound to leave with smiles on their faces and economic woes temporarily forgotten.
- 'Quantum of Solace': The Bond Formula
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By Jeff Simon
ARTS EDITOR
Updated: 11/13/08 1:31 PM
- A great Bond movie it’s not. In Bond movie hype season, it scarcely matters. You get Bond hype everywhere.
- 'Rachel Getting Married': ‘Rachel’: A brilliant portrait of American dysfunction
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By Jeff Simon
News Arts Editor
Updated: 11/07/08 10:53 AM
- “Rachel Getting Married” has been the most underrated film of 2008 thus far. And that’s despite a couple of things that have been screamingly obvious from Day One:
- ‘The Haunting of Molly Hartley’ serves up cheap scares galore
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By Roger Moore
McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Updated: 11/01/08 6:39 AM
- Weak movie comedies often boil down to a simple counting of laughs. For meek horror films, you track the “gotcha” count.
- ‘Poultrygeist’: Amid the carnage, horror movie has something to say
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BY TONI RUBERTO
News Staff Reviewer
Updated: 11/07/08 10:24 AM
- The recent discovery of a deer carcass that was allegedly being carved up inside a Hamburg restaurant could have been a scene in “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.”
- 'Soul Men': A final treat from Bernie Mac
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BY COLIN COVERT
McClatchy Newspapers
Updated: 11/07/08 10:17 AM
- Back in the day, Louis (Samuel L. Jackson) and Floyd (the late Bernie Mac) were inseparable. As backup singers for R&B heartthrob Marcus Hooks, they were the sweet-singing, slide-dancing, finger-snapping embodiment of 1960s cool.
- 'Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa': A sequel worth seeing
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BY ROBERT W. BUTLER
McClatchy Newspapers
Updated: 11/07/08 10:25 AM
- Common wisdom holds that sequels are inferior to the movies that spawned them. “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” is an exception.
- 'Role Models': A big brother buddy flick
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BY STEPHANIE EVE BOONE
News Contributing Reviewer
Updated: 11/07/08 10:05 AM
- Augie Farks is 15. He’s skinny, wears a cape and considers himself a citizen of Xanthia. He spends his free time embattled in the live-action role-playing game LAIRE, and for some reason his guidance counselor thinks he needs a friend.
- 'What Just Happened?': An insider's account of clashing egos in Hollywood
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By Christopher Schobert NEWS CONTRIBUTING REVIEWER
Updated: 11/07/08 10:56 AM
- ‘‘What just happened?” is likely a question Robert De Niro and Barry Levinson have been forced to ask each other with alarming frequency during recent years.
- ‘Pride and Glory’: An NYPD family is torn apart by corruption
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By Jeff Simon
ARTS EDITOR
Updated: 10/23/08 8:46 AM
- It’s not true that Hollywood keeps making the same dark, grubby-looking New York cop movie over and over again. It only seems that way.
- ‘Changeling’: Clint Eastwood’s take on a true case
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By Jeff Simon
ARTS EDITOR
Updated: 10/30/08 3:56 PM
- Clint Eastwood’s “Changeling” is a changeling of a movie. It starts out as one movie and then turns into another. Fortunately, both movies are related and both are worth seeing, which makes the two-and-a-half hours spent in its company reasonably absorbing if by no means satisfying. It’s the first half of the movie that’s extraordinary.
- ‘Zack & Miri’: Kevin Smith film deserves laughs, not scorn
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BY JEFF SIMON
Arts Editor
Updated: 11/07/08 10:56 AM
- Two things will help almost anyone who might otherwise balk to get past the title of the very funny, very adolescent and very raunchy “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” — the title of which has proved to be far more “in your face” than the filmmaker intended.
