Reviews

[Review] Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

I'd be remiss if I didn't explain the two most pressing points about Salmon Fishing in the Yemen right up front. Yes, they do get salmon in the Yemen, and of co...

[Review] Footnote

Joseph Cedar's Footnote, winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and one of four runners-up to Asghar Farhadi's A Separation for th...

[Review] John Carter

There is a whole lot going on in filmmaker Andrew Stanton's live-action feature debut John Carter, a very big budget adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' tale A ...

[Review] 21 Jump Street

Screenwriters Michael Bacall and Jonah Hill made the right move when they decided their 21 Jump Street would be a continuation of the original television series...

[Review] The Lorax

I loved The Land Before Time when I was a kid. It was a cute story with memorable characters in a world full of dinosaurs that utterly fascinated me. I remember...

[Review] Project X

I guess I just don't get it. Being the kid that would rather pick up an extra shift at my hourly job than attend an epic rager the likes no one has ever seen me...

[Review] The Snowtown Murders

Was that a real kangaroo? I kept wondering that as John Bunting (Daniel Henshall) hacks off the paws and head of the dead creature as his girlfriend’s 16-year-o...

[Review] Last Days Here

Music is an intensely personal thing for many people. We listen to it, assign it meaning, and sometimes build entire moments or stages in our lives around it. M...

[Review] Being Flynn

Being Flynn, directed by Paul Weitz, has been a long time coming. Based on the autobiographical novel Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn, Weitz h...

[Review] The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

From the moment it begins, the feeling that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is not going to contain too many surprises becomes apparent. Accentuated as the film ...