Film

Don’t let the stupid title prevent you from seeing this marvelous movie. Ghost Town is an unexpected treat–beautifully written, charming, funny, and poignant, with…

I couldn’t wait to see the new Coen brothers movie, Burn After Reading. Would the quirky Minneapolis-born siblings create a worthy successor to their…

“I don’t want it all,” Annette Bening’s chic character in The Women admits. “I just want a slice.” She could have been describing the…

Death Race had one of the most impressive previews of the year–thrilling shots of a kill-or-be-killed auto race with spectacular effects edited superbly to…

The more I think about this movie, the better it gets. Traitor is a thoughtful, intelligent, sophisticated story about a topic of overwhelming interest…

In a summer of CGI effects and comic book super-heroes, mature film lovers are longing for an ultra-classy intelligent thriller. Your wait is over….

Warning # 1: This is not your grandpa’s war movie. It’s a coarse, bizarre, often nauseating spoof of Hollywood shallowness. It’s completely politically incorrect,…

The Visitor is an exquisite, simple tale about ordinary people enmeshed in the post 9/11 immigration quandary. The movie posits no political agenda, no…

The Forbidden Kingdom is a banner event–it’s the first film in which Chinese martial arts titans Jackie Chan and Jet Li appear together. Though…

I saw this movie because it got rave reviews from lots, I mean lots, of other movie critics. Oh, folks, hoodwinked by the critics,…