Rating: 2 Stars

The White Ribbon

As far as cautionary German tales for kids go, I’m sticking with Struwwelpeter

01.15.2010

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Patchy and problematic

01.03.2010

The Princess and the Frog

Not destined to be one of Disney’s classics

12.11.2009

Brothers

I am having difficulty summarising this, so you get a non-summary instead

12.09.2009

Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire

Gritty, and not in a 1970s Scorsese kind of way

11.21.2009

A Christmas Carol

Needs more Gonzo the Great

11.07.2009

The Vintner’s Luck

No one ever expects magical realism! At least I never do

09.15.2009

Public Enemies

Audience engagement was apparently public enemy #

07.03.2009

Little Ashes

Truthfully, I’ve always been more of a Rene Magritte girl

05.28.2009

Inside Hana’s Suitcase

Unnecessarily and condescendingly dumbed down

04.30.2009

Slumdog Millionaire

I remain unmoved and unfazed by this film

02.03.2009

Revolutionary Road

I’m pretty sure the world does not need more movies about bored suburbanites

01.03.2009

Twilight

Surprisingly bland for a vampire flick

12.04.2008

Four Christmases

I’m wondering at what point did movies like this begin to define Christmas for people

11.28.2008

Rachel Getting Married

I am quickly tiring of the dysfunctional family drama film

11.10.2008

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Watch out, Nora Ephron, Kevin Smith is trying to invade your territory

11.06.2008

What Just Happened?

Not a hell of a lot, apparently

11.05.2008

W.

The “W” does not stand for “WIN”,

10.21.2008

Passchendaele

I am unimpressed by war movies without war in them

10.18.2008

Burn After Reading

Burn after reading and salt the earth so nothing like this will ever grow again

09.21.2008

The Duchess

I am absolutely shocked to see Keira Knightley in a period piece

09.19.2008

Che

Four-and-a-half hours of my life that I’ll never get back

09.12.2008

Hooked

Had the makings of a really excellent comedy, but unfortunately it’s a drama

09.11.2008

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Luckily, the movie is not also infinite

09.08.2008

Brideshead Revisited

You know what’s better than “Brideshead Revisted”? “Highway 61 Revisted”

08.10.2008

Pineapple Express

Started out okay but quickly spiralled into stupidity, ineptitude, and unnecessary predictability

08.07.2008

American Teen

Unimpressive

08.02.2008

The Stone Angel

As boomers get older, I suspect we’ll see even more movies like this to satisfy their need to see themselves on screen. Yay

05.20.2008

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

I think one needs an appreciation of Jason Segel to enjoy this

05.11.2008

Leatherheads

Try again, George Clooney

04.04.2008

Atonement

Oh hooray, another period drama starring Keira Knightley

12.27.2007

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton is increasingly devoid of humour

12.25.2007

Love in the Time of Cholera

As far as diseases go, I don’t think I’d put cholera in my Top Five Favourites

12.01.2007

American Gangster

Save yourself $5 and go rent Goodfellas instead

11.05.2007

Michael Clayton

George Clooney means Serious Business™!

10.21.2007

Rendition

Bland

10.20.2007

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Yet another sequel that tries its best to sully by association the awesomeness of its predecessor

10.13.2007

Eastern Promises

Surprisingly unimpressive

09.22.2007

I’m Not There

Diametrically uneven

09.13.2007

Stardust

I’m clearly missing something with this one

08.10.2007

No Reservations

This movie is a dish best served cold

07.28.2007

License to Wed

Not nearly as bad as all the reviews are saying it is

07.06.2007

Ratatouille

Disappointing

07.01.2007

Evening

The family melodrama is still in fine form

06.29.2007

Evan Almighty

I’m not sure why I bother seeing bad sequels to movies I haven’t seen

06.26.2007

Ocean’s Thirteen

More like Ocean’s Incredibly Unnecessary Threequel

06.12.2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Keith Richards carries this movie. I’m serious

05.27.2007

Lucky You

I wasn’t expecting brilliance, but this movie was still sort of ass

05.08.2007

Blades of Glory

I paid to see this… why

04.15.2007

300

Making an awesome looking movie is not the same as making an awesome movie

03.11.2007

Because I Said So

Don’t go into it expecting anything that resembles a surprise, quirk, or twist

02.11.2007

The Good German

The only “good” in this movie is in the title

01.24.2007

Night at the Museum

Dinosaurs? Check. Me now being forced to see this? Check

01.02.2007

Apocalypto

I think I’m the only person on the planet who bothered to see this

12.10.2006

Babel

I’m really not seeing the Oscar buzz in this one

12.06.2006

The Nativity Story

I was spoiled for this movie by some two-thousand year-old book

12.02.2006

The Fountain

The best part about this movie is that it’s only 97 minutes long. The worst part about this movie is that it feels a lot longer

11.26.2006

Bobby

Oliver Stone 1, Emilio Estevez

11.25.2006

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

I fear audiences who don’t understand satire

11.06.2006

Man of the Year

Seriously, don’t bother

10.29.2006

Marie Antoinette

When Sophia Coppola goes for “sublime”, I end up with “boring”

10.26.2006

The Illusionist

Magic should not be bland

09.30.2006

The Last Kiss

Casey Affleck sucks me into some pretty bad movies

09.29.2006

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Not one of the better Frat Pack offerings

08.14.2006

World Trade Center

Boring with a brief interlude of hilarious

08.09.2006

Scoop

Not one of Woody Allen’s better efforts

07.29.2006

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

When will people learn that recycling everything that worked in the first film doesn’t work for sequels

07.09.2006

Poseidon

As far as sinking ships go, I’ll take Titanic over this any day

05.27.2006

The DaVinci Code

Hooray for conspiracy theories!

05.22.2006

United 93

Not for everyone

05.18.2006

Tristan + Isolde

Can’t go wrong with swordfighting

01.26.2006