Movies

Review: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Pummeling awfulness
Directed by Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thurmeier, the third go-round of the animated franchise — this time in 3-D — is as numbing as its geological era.

By: ALICIA POTTER | July 01, 2009

Review: Public Enemies

Michael Mann's reheated crime waive
The gangster movie ruled Depression-era cinema — and that might be cause for concern about our present economic difficulties should the genre make a comeback.

By: PETER KEOUGH | July 01, 2009

Not quite the sum of its parts
Nick Cassavetes ( The Notebook ) gives competent direction to this weepie of the highest order, and there's an eclectic cast headed by Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric, and Little Miss Sunshine, Abigail Breslin.

By: TOM MEEK | July 01, 2009

Review: Transformers

Mechanical failure; expect no change from this Transformers
Revenge of the Fallen has already achieved at least one Hollywood first: it's the only major movie I know of to be released without press notes.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 24, 2009

Review: Year One

Not everything Judd Apatow touches is gold.
Mel Brooks and the lads from Monty Python stormed through this territory with fierce farce. Here there's little farce, just a fusillade of flaccid dick jokes.

By: TOM MEEK | June 23, 2009

Review: Whatever Works

Look on Works and despair
It happens to everyone: getting old means getting more annoying. Those endearing little quirks degenerate into insufferable pathologies, the funny stories become less funny with repetition, and in general the same old self-depreciating ironies and obsessive-compulsive hedges against mortality stop working.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 23, 2009

Review: The Proposal

Predictability and Betty White have much to do with the film's modest success
Anne Fletcher's comedy proves funnier and warmer than the dog-eared premise it hangs on: ice-bitch boss turns to her abused, resentful underling for an out-of-office favor, shows a shred of humanity, and love blossoms.

By: TOM MEEK | June 16, 2009

Review: Food, Inc.

As visually flashy as it is viscerally alarming
You are what you eat. And if you're like most Americans, you eat hamburgers made from cows who likely spent their lives crowded in fetid factory farms, ankle-deep in mud and excrement.

By: MIKE MILIARD | June 16, 2009

Review: Tetro

Francis Ford Coppola: still lost in a cinematic jungle
Francis Ford Coppola made one perfect picture, The Conversation , in 1974.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 16, 2009

Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

Going a bit overboard
This meticulously detailed update of the 1974 cult-favorite heist drama retains some of that film's taut pacing and dry humor, and it even boasts some decent performances.

By: DAVID WILDMAN | June 10, 2009

Review: Imagine That

Forces you to follow its eponymous directive
Eddie Murphy proves he doesn't need a fat suit to play soft in Karey Kirkpatrick's surprisingly nuanced family comedy.

By: ALICIA POTTER | June 10, 2009

Review: The Merry Gentleman(1)

XXXW
In his startling directorial debut, Michael Keaton plays a mysterious figure moving among big city shadows: not Batman, but a hitman who befriends a young Irish woman (an endearing Kelly MacDonald) with a secret of her own.

By: SIMON AUGUSTINE | June 12, 2009

Festival atmosphere

Between the Blockbuster and the beach there are the film festivals of New England
Summer traditionally has been the happy hunting ground for Hollywood studios — the time when they unleash their big-budgeted, f/x-heavy warhorses on armies of newly freed schoolchildren and frazzled adults trying to beat the heat.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 09, 2009

Review: Il divo

The 'life' of Giulio Andreotti
Luigi Pirandello's most famous work is a play about six characters in search of an author.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | June 08, 2009

Review: Drag Me To Hell

Proving you don't need buckets of blood to scare the bejabbers out of an audience.
Sam Raimi and producer Rob Tapert here return to the gonzo slapstick horror of their classic Evil Dead trio.

By: BETSY SHERMAN | June 02, 2009

Review: Land of the Lost

Will Ferrell bottoms out
Even Matt Lauer deserves a better fate than to watch his career die at the hands of Brad Silbering.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 03, 2009

Review: The Hangover

Almost all the elements are familiar.
The increasingly tiresome trend of raunchy comedies about bad male behavior finds nothing new to laugh about in Todd Phillips's retread of Old School.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 02, 2009

Best in show

Making the picks at the Newport Film Festival
Tom Hall, the new artistic director of the Newport International Film Festival (June 3-7), had the usual hard time culling more than 600 submissions — some invited but most over the transom — down to 90 films — 17 narrative features (plus five Hollywood classics), 17 feature-length documentaries, and 56 shorts.

By: BILL RODRIGUEZ | May 27, 2009

Cannes goods

Tarantino, Antichrist , and a well-lit genitalia show; why the French film festival is like no other
Quick — name a world-class film-festival administrator willing to reveal that at age 12 he was titillated by the sight of clodhopper-shod Minnie Mouse stomping on Mickey's tail in a French comic book.

By: LISA NESSELSON | May 27, 2009

Review: Up

Raising the art to a higher level
Nobody these days tells stories as cinematically as do the people at Pixar. At least for the first half-hour of their films.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 01, 2009

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