Lego The Lord of the Rings Review
TT Games' latest licensed Lego adventure follows the familiar chronology of the film trilogy, but there's still fun in the expected journey.
Playing for Keeps Review
The romantic comedy Playing for Keeps has an excellent first 45 minutes mostly because it isn’t trying to be a standard rom-com. What starts off as a curiously winning mixture of a kids sport’s movie and a racy, adult sex farce, however, gives way somewhat suddenly to become something that’s merely okay and not at all surprising.
Deadfall Review
Not to be confused with the Nicolas Cage campfest of the same name, Deadfall is an overly plotted crime thriller that cares more about piling on story notes than developing actual characters.
Bestiaire Review
It might just be wordless shots of animals if you want to be reductive about it, but Denis Cote's Bestiaire feels transcendent, contemplative, and almost zen like in its opposition to the kinds of nature films audiences have grown accustomed to.
Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet Review
While guitarist Jason Becker serves as a great focus for a documentary, the documentary made about him can only really give the bullet points of his life, works, and current battles with ALS.
The House I Live In Review
Given all of the anti-drug propaganda we’re forced to swallow on a daily basis, this bitter pill of a film demands to be seen. Even if you’re well versed in the facts and issues that Eugene Jarecki's The House I Live In trots out, the material is collected, organized, and presented in such a way that will tear your guts out and infuriate you all over again.
Far Cry 3 Review
An open-world shooter that maniacally chuckles at its own possibilities, Far Cry 3 could very well end up being many players’ Skyrim this winter.
This Week in DVD: 12/4/12
Looking ahead at the holiday DVD and Blu-ray shopping season, we don't like much of what we see, including Men in Black III, Hope Springs, Ted, The Bourne Legacy, Lawless, and The Odd Life of Timothy Green, but the post-apocalyptic thriller The Day is better than it has any right to be, Laurence Anyways is an exceptional Canadian film, and there's also that Batman movie from that really famous director guy.
Killing Them Softly Review
Killing Them Softly is a stunning looking and sounding picture with some great performances and directorial panache to spare, but it becomes a bit of slog once the film's bursts of ultraviolence run aground of the constant, unsubtle economic badgering.
Anna Karenina Review
What makes director Joe Wright and actress Kiera Knightley's latest collaboration on Tolstoy's Anna Karenina somewhat startling is the fact that it’s an oddball self-conscious, almost Brechtian experience in audience alienation as well (apologies for getting pretentious, but it’s the kind of movie that requires that sort of talk).
Lloyd the Conqueror Review
For a film about such a creative modern day phenomenon as LARPing, Lloyd the Conqueror takes a lazy approach to what could be a very funny conquest.
The Last Movie Review
It’s hard to think that there could be a more egotistical local based production to make its way to a repertory cinema this year than Bruce Pittman’s The Last Movie. The veteran television director (also a former owner of the Revue Cinema and the man behind Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II) thinks he’s creating […]
The Suicide Shop Review
While it isn't as great as the Jean-Pierre Jeunet or Sylvain Chomet films it's trying to emulate, The Suicide Shop still sets itself apart by being darkly different than 98% of all other animated films out there.
A Late Quartet Review
It might sound like a dry, melodramatic bore on a surface level, but Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener work together to make the Orchestral ensemble dramedy A Late Quartet a real winner.
Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Review
Warren Spector's passion project Epic Mickey was equal parts frustrating and charming.The 2010 cartoon platformer featured a lot of issues to muscle through, but the interesting atmosphere and the goopy paint v. thinner mechanics ensured that Spector’s time sporting a Mouseketeer cap wasn’t wasted. It also made a happy amount of money, so here’s a sequel, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two, that shoehorns in co-op, singing and practically nothing else.
