Starring:
Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin
Review:
Is there life after Twilight? Kristen Stewart makes a
decent case in The Runaways. Now Rob Pattinson, her vamp
lover, trades fantasy for reality in Remember Me. (
Peter Travers reviews Remember Me in his weekly video
podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”) As Tyler, a New
York college boy, the brooding RPatz […]

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Starring:
Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve
Review:
Who can relate to a nerd who dreams of rubbing his pencil dick
on the private parts of a blonde hot enough to rate a hard 10? My
guess is that audience is pathetically large, which should chart
She’s Out of My League high as a date-movie must for the
loser in all of […]

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Starring:
Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear
Review:
How do you make an Iraq War movie that audiences will actually
pay to see? (Don’t holler The Hurt Locker, since all its
Oscar medals never melted into box-office gold.) Matt Damon and
director Paul Greengrass deliver their answer in Green
Zone, taking a nonfiction book, Imperial Life in the
Emerald City, by former Washington […]

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Starring:
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Mia Wasikowska
Review:
Sexual panic is the last thing you’d expect to prod Alice to get
her ass down a rabbit hole. But, hell, this is Tim Burton’s
Alice in Wonderland, not your third-grade teacher’s
version. Scholars of British author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) will
no doubt shriek, “Off with Burton’s head!” for […]

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Starring:
Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle
Review:
Simultaneously full of itself and full of shit, Brooklyn’s
Finest is a cop movie so shallow, dumb, derivative and
infuriating that it feels like a parody of bad cop movies. From the
glaringly obnoxious opening scene of a parked car with its turn
signal blinking, blinking, blinking, to the spray of clichés
that […]

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Starring:
Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup
Review:
Oscar-nominated as Best Foreign Language Film from France, A
Prophet is a prison film like The Godfather is a
gangster film. Meaning this knockout punch of a thriller surpasses
its trappings to speak in a universal language about the ways power
corrupts the human condition. Newcomer Tahar Rahim is astounding as
Malik, 19, an illiterate […]

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Starring:
Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Seann William Scott
Review:
Kevin Smith has taken so much stupid heat for being “too fat to
fly” that it would be sweet to report that Cop Out is a
return to form for the writer-director of Clerks,
Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike
Back. But Smith didn’t even write this hit-and-miss gag
machine. […]

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Starring:
Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Catrall
Review:
In the craptacular month of February, when Hollywood typically
drowns us in all-star drool like
Valentine?s Day, it?s indecent luck having two films
in play directed by indisputable masters. First Scorsese?s
Shutter Island, and now Roman Polanski?s The Ghost
Writer. The Polish director, currently under house arrest in
Switzerland awaiting possible extradition to the […]

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Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Michelle Williams, Mark Ruffalo
Review:
Martin Scorsese makes movies as if his life depends on it, never
skimping on ferocity and feeling. From Mean Streets to
The Departed, Scorsese?s crime films turn the genre on its
empty head, shaking out the clichés to uncover the violence
of the mind. His latest, Shutter Island, sizzles with so
much nerve-frying […]

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Starring:
Anthony Hopkins, Benicio Del Toro
Review:
No fun either. And no real scares, which is more unforgivable. All
the attention to technical detail (Rick Baker’s makeup is aces)
results in some graphic and gory transformation scenes as Benicio
Del Toro gets bitten by a werewolf (no, not Taylor Lautner) while
walking under a full moon and grows more hair […]

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