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Movie review: Keeping up with 'Tintin' is tough

That's The Adventures of Tintin boiled down to its essence. Steven Spielberg's film, based on the popular comic books created by the Belgian artist Herge, is a marvel to look at, taking full advantage of motion-capture and 3-D tec [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

I keep want to referring to Stephen Daldry's film of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as, instead, ..& Incredibly Cute. That's unfair. It's not even true; well, not completely. Still, the perfo [...]

Posted On : Dec, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: 'The Adventures of Tintin'

Think of "The Adventures of Tintin" as a song of innocence and experience, able to combine a sweet sense of childlike wonder and pureness of heart with the most worldly and sophisticated of modern technology. More than anything, [...]

Posted On : Dec, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ – Best ...

While minor references are made to previous Mission Impossible movies, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol feels more like a franchise reboot than a sequel. The intense non-stop action keeps the adrenaline high. Director Brad Bird [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows’

Here’s a mystery I wish Sherlock Holmes would solve: What the heck is going on in his new movie? Granted, this might be an easier request if Holmes actually solved mysteries these days. That doesn’t seem to be the case in & [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Sixteen years on from the first big screen revival, this largely gripping fourth instalment in Tom Cruise's action franchise is still taking its cues from the original TV show. Those messages are still self-destructing in five se [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: Carnage

Roman Polanski takes the experience of watching Yasmina Reza's play, God of Carnage, and amplifies the tension, turns anger into absurdity and captures an entire universe in, essentially, two and a half rooms of a Brooklyn apartment i [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

“Arthur Christmas” movie review

Lots of movies try and explain who Santa Claus is and where he comes from and how long he’s been doing his job. These movies also offer explanations for how all the toys are made and delivered. It’s an exercise in futility rea [...]

Posted On : Dec, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: YOUNG ADULT (Watch Movie Trallier)

“From the director of UP IN THE AIR and the writer of JUNO,” proclaim the ads for YOUNG ADULT. Those vaunted folks would, of course, be Jason Reitman and Diablo Cody, respectively. Truth is, the marketing department is cutting [...]

Posted On : Dec, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: 'The Sitter'

In "The Sitter," it's hard to decide who is more to blame — the kids, the adults or the filmmakers. I'm going with the filmmakers as the folks most responsible for perpetrating this terribly unfunny and overwhelmin [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

MOVIE REVIEW: 'New Year's Eve' is calculated countdown to mi...

Those who don't like crowds might take caution with "New Year's Eve." There are bunches of people in the Times Square sequences, and perhaps even more in the main cast of characters. For those who enjoy mass companionshi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

‘Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Review Enrages Movie Studio

In the entertainment industry, there’s a golden rule for running movie reviews: You don’t do it until the week the movie hits theaters (or until the studio says you can run it, whichever comes first) in the interest of promoti [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie review: 'I Am Singh'

Terribly earnest and earnestly terrible, the heavy-handed Bollywood political screed "I Am Singh," from veteran actor-director Puneet Issar, begins as a passably melodramatic outpouring of post-9/11 grief. Proud Sikh Ranveer (Gu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Review: Hugo

Hugo is a film about the magic of cinema, the storytelling possibilities it holds, how you can sit in a dark room and be drawn into worlds and an experience unlike any other. The legendary director Martin Scorsese, here delivering his fir [...]