Movies

Nickelodeon to screen local flicks

Show Your Work
Eddy Bolz, a projectionist at the Nickelodeon Cinemas, wants local filmmakers to send him their feature-length movies for possible showing on the big screen.

By JEFF INGLIS | February 03, 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

Is there 'hope' in Hollywood?

Three controversial (and sure to be Oscar-nominated) films tackle race in the age of Obama
Buoyed by President Barack Obama's campaign slogan, many had hopes for change after his election.

By PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 2010

Frederick Wiseman's four-hour, 1999 documentary about Belfast, Maine
After 36 films and more than 40 years of filmmaking, Frederick Wiseman has probably come as close as any director to capturing this American life in all its breadth and nuance.

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | January 27, 2010

Oscar predictions 2010

With 10 Best Picture noms, is Oscar up in the air? Our critic predicts.
After years of shrinking audiences and low-grossing Best Picture nominees, the Academy this year is hedging its bets.

By PETER KEOUGH | January 29, 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: 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: Until the Light Takes Us

Metal, terrorism, and gossip
Norwegian black metal in Until the Light Takes Us

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY | 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: 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