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Review: The Last Station

Lions in winter: a Tolstoyan feast
Traversing the spectrum from farce to tragedy, Michael Hoffman's magnificent The Last Station suggests what the story of Count Leo Tolstoy's final days would look like if Chekhov had told it.

By STEVE VINEBERG | February 08, 2010

Review: 44 Inch Chest

Suffocated by chewy, self-congratulatory dialogue
What to do with a kidnapped cuckolder?

By GERALD PEARY | February 02, 2010

Review: Dear John

Gonads and strife
"We're sitting here . . . and we're talking, but nobody's actually saying anything."

By SHAULA CLARK | February 05, 2010

Review: Edge Of Darkness

Roslindale gets a taste of the old Gibson mania
A new genre is emerging in which aging A-list actors play fathers off on a rampage to rescue their daughters or avenge their deaths.

By PETER KEOUGH | February 05, 2010

Review: Frozen

Hell is other ski lifts
A storm is coming, the girl has to pee, and then things get much worse.

By PETER KEOUGH | February 03, 2010

Review: When In Rome

... make a hasty retreat
Exhibits neither an eye nor an ear for comedy.

By BRETT MICHEL | February 02, 2010

Review: Waiting For Armageddon

Here are all the crazies
Much scarier than 2012 is this documentary about the death grip that fundamentalist religious groups have on American politics.

By PETER KEOUGH | January 27, 2010

Review: Legion

God is fed up with all the bullshit
What are angel wings made of? Why, bulletproof titanium with razor-sharp tips to slice open the entrails of sinners.

By ZAK JASON | January 27, 2010

Review: Mystery Team

Those meddling kids
Indie comedy has it tough in the marketplace, so though it's no fun to pan the first feature by the Derrick Comedy troupe, neither was it fun to watch Mystery Team .

By BETSY SHERMAN | January 26, 2010

Review: Extraordinary Measures

The business of who lives and who dies
Most parents would go to great lengths to save a child in peril, but would they find a cure for a terminal disease?

By TOM MEEK | January 27, 2010

Review: Fish Tank

Andrea Arnold's unsentimental education
Scottish director Andrea Arnold rushes in where most other directors — male ones, especially — fear to tread.

By PETER KEOUGH | January 27, 2010

Review: Petition

A modern tragedy based on unchanging conflict
This distressing documentary explores a netherworld of individuals who have come to Beijing from all over China hoping that their grievances against their local governments will be heard.

By CHRIS FUJIWARA | January 26, 2010

Review: Tooth Fairy

It bites
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson dons a pink tutu and wings as Derek, a hockey player who's earned the nickname "The Tooth Fairy" for his knack for knocking out opposing players' bicuspids on the ice.

By BRETT MICHEL | January 26, 2010

Review: Creation

The origin of specious
God-fearing creationists won't find anything to worry them in Jon Amiel's stiff, stodgy, PBS-style telling of the life of Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) during the time he was writing (slowly, very slowly) The Origin of Species .

By GERALD PEARY | January 20, 2010

Review: A Town Called Panic

Bilge from Belgium
This stop-motion comedy from Belgian filmmakers Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar is the anti– Fantastic Mr. Fox — its lack of visual and psychological nuance is, merci, quite deliberate.

By BETSY SHERMAN | January 20, 2010

Review: Police, Adjective

Splendidly perverse
Down these mean Romanian streets, in the nowhere town of Vaslui, walks a young plainclothes policeman, Cristi (Dragos Bucur), who seems more reasonable, more compassionate, than his stern, by-the-book colleagues.

By GERALD PEARY | January 20, 2010

Review: Crazy Heart

Country discomfort: Jeff Bridges can't be beat
Every great actor has at least one washed-up, alcoholic, award-winning-country-singer role in him. For Jeff Bridges, it's "Bad" Blake, a former C&W legend now reduced to playing bowling alleys and dive bars in tiny towns in the Southwest.

By PETER KEOUGH | January 26, 2010

Review: The White Ribbon

Children of the götterdämmerung: Shades of gray in Michael Haneke's White Ribbon
The White Ribbon starts with a black screen and an old man's voice (Ernst Jacobi, who played Hitler in Jan Troell's Hamsun and in a BBC mini-series) relating a series of mysterious accidents and crimes that occurred in the German village where he was a schoolteacher the year before the outbreak of World War I.

By PETER KEOUGH | January 13, 2010

Review: Skin

Love will tear us apartheid
"The definition of a white person is a person who in appearance obviously is a white person . . . or who is generally accepted as a white person and is not in appearance obviously not a white person."

By LANCE GOULD | January 13, 2010

Review: The Spy Next Door

Brian Levant’s cheap misfire
Let’s hope Chan’s fans back East never get a whiff of this one.

By BRETT MICHEL | January 13, 2010

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