Like most of America, you probably haven’t seen United 93. You’ve avoided it out of an understandable reluctance to relive the emotional trauma of September, 11. If so, here’s my advice to you: Go see this movie. Now. Drag [ . . . ] Read the rest
Category Archives: Reviews
United 93
June 2, 2006
Mission: Impossible III
May 23, 2006
Mission: Impossible III kicks off the summer ’06 movie season with gusto. It’s a sleek, effective action film, the kind of film the James Bond production team should be making these days but doesn’t.
Tom Cruise started the Mission: Impossible [ . . . ] Read the rest
Proof
May 19, 2006
Usually when a film is based on a book, the book is better. Occasionally though the movie clearly surpasses its source material; The Wizard of Oz and The Godfather are prime examples. But I can’t think of a single example [ . . . ] Read the rest
Miracle
May 17, 2006
In 1980, the U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the Soviets and won the gold medal. I vaguely remember the big fuss about this at the time, but in 1980 The Empire Strikes Back, Superman II, and The Blue [ . . . ] Read the rest
Jarhead
May 9, 2006
Jarhead is a superbly well-made mediocre film. It’s a frustrating example of the whole being less than the sum of the parts.
The parts are all very fine indeed. The film looks spectacular. The skillful, disciplined cinematography, by Coen brothers [ . . . ] Read the rest
Match Point
May 8, 2006
If you didn’t know better, you’d swear that Match Point was the work of some promising newcomer, not the pathetic has-been that Woody Allen has become. Allen’s maddening, OCD insistence on making a new film every single year results in [ . . . ] Read the rest
Rent
May 7, 2006
The musical, like the western, is a once-popular genre now largely abandoned. But every now and then someone makes a really good musical, like Chicago, (or a really good western, like Unforgiven) and people start talking about a [ . . . ] Read the rest
