Posts categorized “Movie Reviews”.

I see you, baby, shakin’ that thang

Avatar is a beautiful, stunning film. It is an engrossing epic, a virtuoso action flick, a technical marvel. It is full of wonder and thrills and heartaches and triumphs. It is an incredible movie. If only someone other than James Cameron had written the dialogue. [Read my full review]

The game’s afoot.

All too often Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as a stuffy, tweedy, dry intellectual, full of calm and cool reason, using only the power of his brain to solve dastardly crimes. But that portrayal has always seemed, well, boring to me. There is nothing boring about Robert Downey Jr. and Guy Ritchie’s vision of the famous detective. This brave new Sherlock Holmes is quite a departure from previous film versions of the character, and at the same time extremely reverent to the original stories. And above all else, this one is FUN. [Read my full review]

Shape it up, get straight, go forward, move ahead…

This really is a joy of a movie. It’s a fun little flick about girls beating up on each other, and how that toughness makes them grow, but it has a genuine sweetness that isn’t cloying, and an intelligence that is real and clever. [Read my full review]

Partly metal, partly real…

It has all the makings of a fun time: a sci-fi premise, Bruce Willis, and a dastardly mystery involving the fate of the whole world. But it never really takes off. It’s all just kinda there. Just kinda, y’know, “Meh.” [Read my full review]

Where my Wild Things at?

One adjective always comes to mind when I think about Spike Jonze’s adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are: Thoughtful. This is a very thoughtful film. [Read my full review]

It’s true; they are funny.

If you have a comedy with the word “funny” in the title then it sure as hell had better actually be funny, or else you’re setting yourself up for a nice, hubris-induced fall. Fortunately, there is quite a lot of funny stuff in Judd Apatow’s new movie, although not perhaps as much as you might expect coming from him. [Read my full review]

It really is a harsh mistress

Moon is a great science fiction movie that I thoroughly enjoyed and will try very, very, very hard to review without including any spoilers. But even saying that much lets you know that there is something to spoil. Hmmm… this is going to be difficult. [Read my full review]