|
| 621. |
|
05/05/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...does what a franchise reboot rarely does. It reminds us why we loved these characters in the first place." |
| 622. |
|
05/01/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...terrifically compelling and, more than that, unexpectedly moving. In large part this is because the fighter is our sole tour guide through the wreckage." |
| 623. |
|
05/01/09 |
Very Good |
 "Hiam Abbass creates an emotional anchor for a movie that keeps lurching into the political." |
| 624. |
|
05/01/09 |
Moderate |
 "...better-than-average McConaughey swill, but not by much.... The dialogue is bright and shallow, the pacing brisk, and Rolfe Kent's score tells you exactly what to feel..." |
| 625. |
|
05/01/09 |
Moderate |
 "Caine makes a difficult man's struggle to stay afloat touching and specific... but everything else about the movie feels hazy." |
| 626. |
|
04/24/09 |
Poor |
 "...goggling at the fauna just isn't enough. The piece had better have something fresh to say. 'The Informers' doesn't, nor does it seem to want to." |
| 627. |
|
04/24/09 |
Moderate |
 "...plays like a Sundance movie with half the nouns removed; fetchingly cryptic for a while, it's ultimately just obscure." |
| 628. |
|
04/24/09 |
Very Good |
 "The movie, for all its flaws, reminds us that everyone is worth catching, but it's the actors who best embody that message. They go the full human being." |
| 629. |
|
04/18/09 |
Weak |
 "At one point, the actor stares into the camera and extends his middle finger. I hope that's for the directors, since the movie's long since flipped us off." |
| 630. |
|
04/17/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...manages the trick of portraying the band's predicament with blunt, cleareyed hilarity while simultaneously wishing them the very best." |
| 631. |
|
04/17/09 |
Very Good |
 "It seems like a chatty, elegant French romantic comedy - Eric Rohmer Lite, perhaps, or sexier Woody Allen - until it takes an apparent turn for the melodramatic." |
| 632. |
|
04/17/09 |
Moderate |
 "...loaded with high fructose corn syrup so the girls will like it (and they will) and as meaningful as an afternoon at the mall." |
| 633. |
|
04/10/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "If you've seen 'Paris, je t'aime' or 'New York Stories,' you know the rate of return on these urban omnibuses is variable, and so it is here." |
| 634. |
|
04/10/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...can take its place with the best baseball movies.... most focus on the grand slam, this one's about the life that surrounds the game and everything that comes after." |
| 635. |
|
04/03/09 |
Very Good |
 "Does the world really need a fond, precise parody of 1950s alien-invasion movies right now? No, but we've got one, and it's pretty endearing - a low-budget labor of schlock." |
| 636. |
|
04/03/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a small, graceful epic.... quiet, observant, and intensely moving... beautifully attuned to tectonic shifts in the culture even as it attends to this one small life." |
| 637. |
|
04/03/09 |
Weak |
 "...someday I'd like to see the real hard work of writing poetry: the procrastination, the dumb luck of inspiration, the coffee, the rewrites." |
| 638. |
|
03/27/09 |
Very Good |
 "...a violent, melodramatic, feverishly overplotted tale of midlife crisis and crazy love. It's good, nasty fun until it gets boxed in by its own contrivances toward the end." |
| 639. |
|
03/27/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a perfectly acceptable family movie... the script has the expected mixture of things going boom, gross-out slapstick for the kids, and arch pop-culture cross-referencing for Mom and Dad." |
| 640. |
|
03/27/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a visually ravishing tour of hell and a meditation on freedom that at best is wordlessly profound and at worst interestingly obscure.... electrifying..." |
