Movie Reviews

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REVIEW: GRIZZLY MAN

Werner Herzog’s films have often been about the extremes of humanity, and in Timothy Treadwell he has found a perfect subject. Treadwell spent 13 summers in the wilds of Alaska, surrounded by grizzly bears, fancying himself their protector. For the last five of these years he filmed himself, almost obsessively. And in the last summer … Continue reading

REVIEW: BROKEN FLOWERS

It’s not hard to imagine the characters Bill Murray playing today as the older versions of the characters he played in the 70s and 80s. The younger characters often approached the world with a detached hipness and sarcasm which at some point in their lives, after Meatballs and Ghostbusters II ended, stopped being hipness and … Continue reading

REVIEW: DUKES OF HAZZARD

Burt Reynolds fired his agent after Boogie Nights. If he has a lick of sense in his head, he’ll kill his agent after Dukes of Hazzard. The movie, an adaptation of the popular TV show, has the distinction of being one of the worst films I have sat through so far this year. It’s a … Continue reading

REVIEW: ARISTOCRATS, THE

“You had to be there.” We’ve all said it. We’ve all heard it – when something is so funny, but cannot be adequately expressed to someone else. The real phrase shouldn’t be “You had to be there,” it should be “I can’t tell it.” That, at the core, is what The Aristocrats is all about. … Continue reading

REVIEW: STEALTH

The opening training mission sequence of Stealth introduces a trio of hotshot Navy superpilots in Ben Gannon (Josh Lucas), Kara Wade (Jessica Biel) and Henry Purcell (Jamie Foxx), who finish their task with a major bang as Ben announces he’s preparing for “penetration detonation” (there’s a kiloton of eroticized weaponry and maneuvers in Stealth, with … Continue reading

REVIEW: 9 SONGS

I have read that the film SOB was at least partially inspired by Blake Edward’s true life interest in making a hardcore adaptation of The Joy Of Sex. It obviously never happened, and after watching Michael Winterbottom’s 9 Songs, I have decided that maybe that’s a good thing.  Winterbottom’s film has gotten a lot of … Continue reading

REVIEW: LAST DAYS

I believed that Kurt Cobain was going to change the world. After suffering through years of shitty hair metal and poor pop rap, Cobain and Nirvana blasted open the doors of the culture with Nevermind and ushered in what looked like an invasion of the great underground I knew had been percolating for years. But … Continue reading

REVIEW: HUSTLE & FLOW

Terence Howard dominates every moment of the new film Hustle & Flow with the intensity that Robert DeNiro left behind decades ago. As the hustler-turning-rapper DJay, Howard delivers the kind of performance that will have real film lovers screaming bloody murder when it’s overlooked at Oscar time. Hustle & Flow is one of those rare … Continue reading

REVIEW: DEVIL’S REJECTS, THE

After a screening of Rob Zombie’s new film The Devil’s Rejects, one of my fellow critics complained that the movie was “amoral, sociopathic, sadistic and fascistic.” He’s completely right, of course, but can you hold it against the movie when that’s exactly what it wants to be? Rejects is a sequel to Zombie’s debut film House … Continue reading

REVIEW: WEDDING CRASHERS

Praise the Lord, Vince Vaughn is back. When I say that his performance in Wedding Crashers is his best since Swingers, I actually think that means a lot. See, he was so good in Swingers that we have been giving him a pass on a decade worth of half-assed work. Even the films where he’s pretty … Continue reading