Rating: 3.5 stars

The Runaways

Don’t come here looking for Bella Swan and Jane the Volturi

03.19.2010

The Lovely Bones

Best summed up by Desmond and Molly Jones: ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on

01.17.2010

Avatar

Much better than I was expecting

12.18.2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox

I feel like the tide is turning for the better with kids films

11.26.2009

Whip It

[Insert Devo joke here

09.13.2009

The Men Who Stare At Goats

A little bit absurd but pretty entertaining

09.13.2009

500 Days of Summer

Better than its marketing efforts would have you believe

07.20.2009

Easy Virtue

Delightful!

05.30.2009

Star Trek

The Star Trek movie for Star Wars fans

05.15.2009

I Love You, Man

Save for the presence of Rush, this most recent addition to the bromance collection was highly enjoyable

03.29.2009

Duplicity

Mostly smart, kinda sexy, and way funnier than expected

03.27.2009

Coraline

Hooray for cautionary tales for kids!

02.28.2009

Doubt

Mortal Kombat fight #415234: Meryl Streep vs. Philip Seymour Hoffman. FINISH HIM!

12.15.2008

Milk

Solid

11.30.2008

Quantum of Solace

Bond is back and as virile as ever

11.17.2008

Detroit Metal City

Definitely one of the funnier movies I’ve seen this year

09.11.2008

Appaloosa

Stick around for the end of the credits on this one

09.06.2008

The Counterfeiters

It’s nice to see a Holocaust movie that deals with something other than abject suffering

03.08.2008

My Kid Could Paint That

Three of my mother’s four kids have had art hanging in her home at one point or another for years now, so her logic was “Yeah, my kid could paint that.”

01.20.2008