Reviews
Stories we Tell
Like Sarah Polley’s 2006 feature Away from Her,her new film Stories we Tell is a deeply personal one. But instead of adapting a short story for the big screen here, she has instead turned the camera on members of her own family in a revealing documentary about her...
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Star Trek Into Darkness
J.J. Abrams’ first Star Trek (2009) brought the beloved characters back to the big screen, where they delighted fans and critics alike. With its sequel Star Trek Into Darkness,a better villain emerges but is accompanied by an unmistakable complacency in the story itself....
The Great Gatsby
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby explodes in theaters nationwide today. It is a dizzy, dazzling and deliberate story of decadence and the movie brings F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel to life in a brilliant fashion. With a few tweaks here and there of the novel, the director and...
Peeples
Peeples is a rare Tyler Perry treat. It’s a film that the successful director worked on but didn’t hold back from critics in advance of its release date. Many of the movies that Perry has been heavily involved in are not shown to critics, so the fact that this one was...
At Any Price
Zac Efron could probably headline any film he wanted. The star has a built-in fan base from his High School Musical days that would likely follow him from one empty romantic comedy to the next. That’s why it’s so exciting that he often chooses smaller roles in...
Iron Man 3
“Nothing’s been the same since New York,” Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) notes in an early scene in the new superhero adventure, Iron Man 3. With lines like that and an anxiety-ridden storyline, this feature lands nicely in the Marvel universe following– both...
Pain & Gain
Pain and Gain is an oddly disconcerting film. At the same time that it mocks the dimness of its leads (and admittedly, they are quite dumb), it also unabashedly embraces the violence and relentless energy of a typical Michael Bay blockbuster. By the time the story ends,...
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