Posts categorized “Movie Reviews”

World peace in the palm of his hand…?

I really, really wanted to like this movie more than I do/did. It has soooo much going for it, and yet for some reason or other it never coalesces into an actually good movie. [Read my full review]

He’s harmless. Honest!

I enjoyed this movie quite a bit more than I thought I would. Carrie had a much more visceral emotional response to it than I did, though. She calls it “The Suki Dragon Movie” because the main dragon in the film reminds her so much of our dog Suki. [Read my full review]

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]