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Muppets Most Wanted
This re-energized franchise has found its second wind: The Muppets' eighth movie proves that eight is not enough.
"...to play the music, it’s time to light the lights. Yes, those wacky puppets are back in Muppets Most..."

March 21, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

3 Days to Kill
Kevin Costner stars in this snappy but contrived mix of international espionage and paternal redemption.
"...cowboy-chic attire befitting a gunslinger roaming the City of Lights in search of Euro-villains. It’s a different take on..."

Feb. 28, 2014 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentaries, Program B
A man carves majestic caves in sandstone rocks, and a prison hospice sees a lifer to the end.
"...passageways, soaring walls into which designs are carved, and skylights that allow a person to have the anomalous sensation..."

Feb. 7, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Smurfs 2
The Smurfs invade Paris. (Must've heard Jerry Lewis is a god there.)
"...the setting of its successor is the City of Lights, prominently featuring Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, the..."

Aug. 2, 2013 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Miami Connection
This incoherent mass of Eighties kitsch is the brainchild of tae kwon do master and motivational speaker Y.K. Kim.
"...drug trade. Nonsensical dialogue, painful acting, lots of strobe lights, and even more fighting – what more could a..."

Nov. 9, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Invisible War
The shockingly rampant problem of rape in all branches of the U.S. military is the subject of this Kirby Dick documentary.
"...Strap in tightly before the lights go down because you will likely blow a gasket..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Prom
Friday Night Lights' Aimee Teegarden stars in this tween wish-fulfillment movie.
"...wifebeater that tipped it into PG country? Friday Night Lights’ expert sulker Teegarden wipes clean her signature sullenness as..."

April 29, 2011 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Burlesque
Burlesque bumps and grinds. And then grinds and grinds and grinds.
"...on her platform pumps, and heads for the glittering lights of Hollywood. Those wishing for another camp touchstone like..."

Dec. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Devil
A group of strangers takes a ride with the devil on an elevator to hell.
"...are the rules of the game, and when the lights begin to flicker and then go out completely, bloodshed..."

Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kites
This Bollywood film made in America mixes elements from crime thrillers, love stories, and Westerns in a big flashy bundle designed to win over viewers dwelling far from the Indian subcontinent.
"...with the urban action set amid the lush, flashing lights of Las Vegas. Director Basu also has a tendency..."

May 21, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
This collegiate coming-of-age comedy is about as exciting as near-beer.
"...is that Tucker Max (here played by Friday Night Lights' Czuchry) would have been a more likely member of..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Paris 36
This French film set in late-Thirties Paris is something of a backstage drama, but it's marred by glossy reminiscing and melodramatic politicizing.
"...recall, fondly, those halcyon days before the City of Lights became the City of Collaborators and Partisans (or, for..."

April 24, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What Happens in Vegas
Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher – two Hollywood actors known for their prankishness and pluck – never manage to convince us that this Sin City comedy is fun.
"...Dennis Farina and Deirdre O'Connell. For all its bright lights and ersatz glitz, Las Vegas can be a dispiriting..."

May 9, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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Kevin Spacey plays Mephistopheles to a cadre of M.I.T. whiz kids, who do a better job of counting cards at the Vegas blackjack tables than counting their loot.
"...development in favor of fluttery Vegas montages of cards, lights, money, and pretty, young faces in thrall to the..."

March 28, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Honeydripper
John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.
"...electrified, but poor Purvis can barely even keep the lights on, much less fuel an amplifier. Like his club..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Nicolas Cage is again on the prowl in this sequel to the 2004 smash success.
"...of the first. Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Cage) lights on a noble cause; enlists a plucky cast of..."

Dec. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Club ‘Chronicle’ Winner
"...Every member of Club Chronicle crossed the Trail of Lights 5K finish line on Saturday, Dec. 8. “We all..."

Dec. 20, 2007 Sports Post by Kristine Tofte

Arctic Tale
The filmmakers crafted their nature footage into a kid-friendly "narrative" about the itty-bitty walrus and the little polar bear that could.
"...like us" children's story set beneath the undulating Northern Lights. Filmmakers Ravetch and Robertson spent some 15 years filming..."

Aug. 17, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

5x2
Ozon's film begins at the end and leads backward over the slow death of a couple's marital bliss, but even while we’re flipping through the snapshots of two people’s disenchantment with each other, it never feels tawdry or excessive or, for that matter, very interesting.
"...everywhere, all the time, even in the City of Lights: with a beginning...."

Sept. 16, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Requiem for a Dream
Portrait of a young junkie – and those he loves.
"...story that can only be told with all the lights out, and which haunts the memory long after you've..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

The Third Miracle
"...to be filled with lots of special effects, flashing lights, and green-pea soup. The popular conception of contact between..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chalk
"...his nasty piece-of-work character. Nilsson, whose previous movies, Northern Lights (1979) and Heat and Sunlight (1988), apart from demonstrating..."

July 30, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Spike & Mike's 1999 Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation
"...of Craig “Spike” Decker and Mike Gribble, the guiding lights behind this long-running animated film festival. Watching the selections..."

Jan. 29, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Varsity Blues
"...cheerleader pops up in a whipped-cream bikini. Friday Night Lights it's not. To be fair, Varsity Blues is pretty..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stepmom
"...a grand house at night, its curtains open and lights ablaze. We pause, curiously involved in the tableau unfolding..."

Dec. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Regeneration
"...skips evenly among these four interesting characters but never lights on any one dramatic conflict or character as its..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
"...better) and linger in your seat long after the lights have come up. John, Keller, Squirrel, and Terrell Lee..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

John Grisham's The Rainmaker
"...and DeVito (as Damon's raffish, ambulance-chaser mentor) to lesser lights like Damon, who turns in a surprisingly authoritative performance..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Irma Vep
Assayas' camerawork and editing recall the glory days of the French New Wave, while Cheung holds the center as an actress caught up in the behind-the-scenes mayhem on a creative film set.
"...burglars in turn-of-the-century Paris. Arriving in the City of Lights, the easygoing, enthusiastic actress finds herself embroiled in a..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I, the Worst of All
Based on the book The Traps of Faith by Octavio Paz, this Argentinean film takes place in 17th century “New Spain” (Mexico) as Juana Ines de la Cruz enters a nunnery to pursue her intellectual aims.
"...Spanish Inquisition. Juana is truly one of the intellectual lights of her time: She is an accomplished playwright and..."

Feb. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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