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Gods of Egypt
We already have a strong contender for the worst film of 2016
"...stories preserved centuries ago in funerary texts to mindless action-movie dynamics designed for attention spans taxed by anything with..."

March 4, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dangerous Men
Instant midnight classic marries inspiration with sub-par technique
"...In the fall of 2005, a strange movie called Dangerous Men was unleashed on the world. It..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Final Girls
Smart homage to the cheesy campsite horror films of the Eighties
"...in the sneaky The Final Girls, a surprisingly touching movie-within-a-movie homage to the cheesy campsite horror film of the..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Balls Out
College intramural football comedy features several SNL players
"...big laughs in the most unconventionally funny, weirdly absurd movie of the year, cleverly scripted by UT alumnus Bradley..."

June 19, 2015 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Austin's Zellner brothers make a wry heartbreaker
"...and Nathan producing) is rare object, unlike your everyday movie. It’s an enchanting work, heartbreaking yet wryly amusing, about..."

March 27, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tammy
Melissa McCarthy burns through a lot of goodwill in this limp, confused comedy cowritten with her husband, Ben Falcone.
"...judgey, so fickle – to rally behind a single movie star for very long, but ever since Melissa McCarthy’s..."

July 4, 2014 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Paranoia
This techno-thriller starring Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford, and Gary Oldman arrives inert.
"...exercises like The Conversation or The Parallax View, the movie never taps into the blurred lines of the paranoid..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Change-Up
In this body-switcheroo movie, Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman star as pals each a little envious of the other's life.
"...long on the supernatural hoo-ha required in a body-swap movie to get two persons – each disgruntled by his..."

Aug. 5, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Growing Up in War Zones
The magic of cinema inspires kids in a Kurdish village to take camera in hand
"...narration (did I mention the accent?) in The First Movie that he got to wondering about the toll that..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
Bieber Fever strikes the cineplex.
"...the meteoric success of teen phenomenon Justin Bieber, this movie has been rushed into theatres before the screaming girls..."

Feb. 18, 2011 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Song
Miley Cyrus steps out of her Hannah Montana comfort zone to play a rebellious teen in this Nicholas Sparks melodrama.
"...latest Nicholas Sparks-penned romance to be made into a movie. (In fact, it’s already the second Sparks film this..."

April 2, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Nic Cage delivers one of his best and most outrageous performances in Werner Herzog's cops-and-iguanas drama.
"...New Orleans (twice) than I did at any other movie this year. The singular talents of director Herzog and..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Up
Pixar tops itself with its new animated film that offers so much more than its promotional promise of a fantastical movie about a house that flies on balloon power.
"...tops itself with its new animated offering Up, a movie so visually and emotionally skillful that it makes Monsters,..."

May 29, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miss March
Two-fifths of the Whitest Kids U'Know comedy troupe wrote, star in, and co-directed this nubile sex romp about a road trip to the Playboy mansion.
"...it all the way to the end of Disaster Movie. And if you don’t think that’s an accomplishment on..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Fired Up
This new teen sex comedy is both sexist and prudish.
"...writer, I hereby present my first attempt at quotable movie criticism (Sony Pictures International, feel free to reprint this..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

JCVD
Jean-Claude Van Damme is the JCVD of the title, and in this career-adjusting film, the Muscles From Brussels advances from laughingstock to smart, respectable action-film star.
"...smart, respectable action-film star. JCVD is a postmodern action movie in which Van Damme, here cast as himself, becomes..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fuel
Fuel is a two-hour infomercial for biodiesel and the virtues of other alternative energy sources that won the Audience Award for a documentary at Sundance.
"...further, let’s get something straight: Fuel is not a movie. It may look and sound and feel like a..."

Nov. 21, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Get Smart
A giggly summer movie, Get Smart is a well-cast chip off the old block, although the toothless action sequences detract from the comedy.
"...Dalip Singh and Bill Murray. The track record for movies based on old TV shows hasn’t been pretty, yet..."

June 20, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Water
Don't come to this movie expecting a doom-and-gloom forecast about ecological catastrophe. It's instead an encounter with "voodoo chemistry" that aims to show why we all should start imbibing "structurized water."
"...like a TV infomercial. Do not come to this movie expecting a doom-and-gloom forecast about ecological catastrophe: Apart from..."

March 21, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Charlie Bartlett
If Ferris Bueller and Max Fischer of Rushmore joined together and had a child, their spawn would most certainly turn out something like Charlie Bartlett.
"...spawn would most certainly turn out something like this movie’s titular character, Charlie Bartlett (Yelchin). This new, R-rated teen..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Southland Tales
Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.
"...to a precocious 26-year-old writer/director named Richard Kelly. The movie was something surprising and audacious; its dense web of..."

Nov. 16, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Fred Claus
Awash with amazingly talented actors – Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, to name a few – Fred Claus is sadly just an early lump of coal under the tree.
"...Banks and Kevin Spacey. How many laughs can one movie try to squeeze out of Vaughn being attacked by..."

Nov. 9, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

The Comebacks
A comedy spoof of inspirational sports films.
"...nothing better to do will still speak about a movie they once saw that, for one brief scene, managed..."

Oct. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With
Curb Your Enthusiasm's Jeff Garlin wrote, directed, and stars in this endearing schlub-in-Chicago movie that features contributions from Sarah Silverman, Bonnie Hunt, and other comic performers.
"...Garlin wrote, directed, and stars in this endearing schlub-in-Chicago movie, which is based on his solo stage show of..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Once
This delicate Irish import, which stars the frontman of the Frames, is an insightful and endearing reimagining of a familiar genre: the musical.
"...center around their big performance numbers, Once is a movie about real people who just happen to start singing..."

June 1, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton

Déjà Vu
If the science fiction in Déjà Vu has more to do with fiction than science, it’s not as though this Denzel Washington picture ever pauses long enough for that realization to fully take hold.
"...Fire), director Scott and producer Bruckheimer have created a movie that gives the illusion of being an action/science-fiction movie..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Conversations With God
Life-affirming lessons about a generous, forgiving God and the redemptive possibilities of love and charity dominate this movie based on Neale Donald Walsch's bestseller.
"...a different Oprah-approved spiritual guidebook. Conversations With God the movie probably shouldn’t have been made, or if it had..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

All the King's Men
Despite an A-list cast and director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is.
"...A-list cast and director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is. It's furthermore astonishing since it's a remake of..."

Sept. 22, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Step Up
This snooty-dancer-meets-street-dancer musical romance is so painfully intent on teaching its characters life lessons every few minutes that it forgets to be trashy.
"...Up pretty soon. I can be generous with a movie that dares bring together Griffiths (strip-mined for her credibility..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Cars
Muscling for rank in the crowded box-office speedway, this Pixar contender takes an early lead but loses momentum in the middle third.
"...lead but loses momentum in the middle third. “This movie is too long,” remarked my four-year-old companion. “He needs..."

June 9, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

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