April 2011
7 posts
Phil Bacharach Review: Rio
From the conveyer belt of Fox Animation, “Rio” comes equipped with a predictable story, perfunctory characters and presentable visuals.
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Joe O'Shansky Reviews: Your Highness/Hanna
Expectations can be a movie’s worst enemy; right behind not being particularly good…
…Hanna, a wonderful amalgam of tight storytelling and often gorgeous visual style, is a compelling tale that hopefully makes its lead, Saoirse Ronan, the star that her role in Peter Jackson’s awful The Lovely Bones failed to make her.
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Phil Bacharach Review: Win Win
In “The Station Agent” and “The Visitor,” writer/director Thomas McCarthy explored the dynamics of family, but not in the conventional sense.
The characters in those films created their own families. His newest work, “Win Win,” manages to take a nuclear family and still convert it into something different and deeper.
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Jeffrey Huston Review: Win Win
Win Win may be formulaic in plot, but it’s authentic in the details.
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Jeffrey Huston Review: Source Code
Hollywood-style compromises neuter a potent idea into near-emasculation.
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Jeffrey Huston Review: Hop
It’s not worthy of becoming an annual holiday viewing tradition but, as fun matinee diversions go, the kids should have a blast.
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Phil Bacharach Review: Hanna
Life can be hard for a 16-year-old girl. Clueless parents, frenemies, boy trouble, pressure over grades, zits: The dramas are nearly Shakespearean. And that doesn’t even take into account the shadowy government agents out to get you.
That last problem is the chief one facing the title character of “Hanna,” a sleek thriller opening Friday, buoyed by smart performances and a director eager to...