Transformers: Dark of the Moon Movie Review
After he’s cleared of sexual harassment at the end of the classic Simpsons episode, Homer Badman, Homer J. Simpson turns to his wife, and gleefully announces, “Marge, my friend, I haven’t learned a thing.” Michael Bay is Homer Simpson. Not superficially, of course – he has a gorgeous head of lovely, flowing hair, and he’s not yellow. But More...
Delhi Belly Movie Review by Pankaj Sabnani
There’s a scene in DELHI BELLY in which Nitin (Kunaal Roy Kapur) has a stomach upset and goes to the loo every now and then. After a couple of visits, the water tap runs dry. Unable to find a single drop of More...
The Tree Of Life Movie Review by Ian Nathan
For his fifth film in 40 years, you wonder whether magisterial slowcoach Terrence Malick took stock of his recent output — such abstruse meditations on war, colonialism, and the ineffable fabric of nature as The More...
Bridesmaids Movie Review by Anna Smith at Empire
Anchorman, Superbad, The 40 Year-Old Virgin… Producer Judd Apatow has helped make the last seven years a lot funnier. Meanwhile, fans of mainstream female-focused comedies have mostly been offered insipid J-Lo More...
Limitless Movie Review, Starring Bradley Cooper & Robert De Niro
I know how Eddie Morra feels. Like him, I know almost everything, but have forgotten most of it. We are told time and again that we use only a small portion of our brains and have enough left over to run nations More...
The Adjustment Bureau – Starring Matt Damon & Emily Blunt
Fate vs. choice. Free will vs. predestination. Human decision vs. divine destiny. For millennia, humankind has wrestled with these competing notions of how much freedom we really have to determine our own ends. More...
Battle: Los Angeles Review
Now, I like seeing Los Angeles in flames as much as the next guy, but after seeing Battle: LA, I just couldn’t help but wonder where the rest of this movie went. It feels like the first part of a much bigger More...
Movie Review: Sucker Punch (2011) By Zack Snyder
Sucker Punch Movie Poster Why are stepparents always so rotten in movies? In a wordless prologue, we see that after her mother’s funeral, Baby Doll’s sinister stepfather heartlessly assaults her and More...
The Lincoln Lawyer Review – Starring Matthew McConaughey & Marisa Tomei
As a lawyer, Mick Haller knows all about the murky nature of the human character. He’s seen his share of bad behavior and devious duplicity—lying and cheating to get ahead, to “win” no matter More...