Having lost her job teaching music at Yale, she quit drinking and adopted a...
Last week, for duty’s sake, I caught a matinee of Orphan, the disposable but not entirely deplorable new horror flick in which a troublemaking tween adoptee seems strangely wise beyond her years and...
View ArticleAdam
Written and directed by Max Mayer, Fox Searchlight Pictures Adam is a new movie about a guy with Asperger’s Syndrome. The guy’s name is Adam. Before we continue, I would like to say that except maybe...
View ArticleFor the Young Gentleman’s Information: A Bachelor’s Guide to ‘Bright Star’
The young gentleman might think he has made a capital move by purposely taking his date to see that film about the tubercular Romantic poet whose muse enjoys sewing and butterflies. Quite. But the...
View ArticleHow is Loneliness Pure? And why?
I was hankering for a good adventure movie the other night- something 18th century and swashbuckling. I stumbled upon The Red Tent, on the cover: a tattered crew huddled in a wreck in the middle of an...
View ArticleA Serious Man
Written and directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen As an exercise in futility (a Coen-brothers-appreciation primer if ever there was one), let’s imagine what might have happened had A Serious Man been...
View Article2010′s Best Movie: Winter’s Bone
As a film critic, there are certain occupational hazards you have to face. Namely, that every time you sit down to watch a film, you risk the chance of wasting 90 to 150 minutes of precious time on a...
View ArticleMonsters Among Us
Whether he intended to or not, writer/director Gareth Edwards has crafted a movie in Monsters that is all about defying expectations. It’s an alien invasion film that avoids the usual pitfalls of the...
View ArticleLebanon (Film Review)
Lebanon is an Israeli film that played in U.S. theaters for a few weeks last summer. For those who missed its initial release, it just came out on DVD and is worth catching. While not the absolute...
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The Last Romantic
The Broken Tower, written and directed by James Franco, starring James Franco, with Michael Shannon. The most obvious comment is that Hart Crane deserves better. A complex poet who tried to combine the...
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