2SentenceReviews http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:31:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Get Low http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=228 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=228#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:31:32 +0000 admin http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=228 Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek lead a cast of unforgettable characters in a just plain entertaining movie. It seems a cantankerous old backwoods hermit (Duvall) decides to throw his own funeral party while he’s still alive, and anybody who has a story to tell about him is invited.

Grade: A

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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=228 0 The American http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=224 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=224#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:28:44 +0000 admin http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=224 George Clooney plays an assassin traveling through Europe, escaping danger and bedding women, and he is so impassive and cool he’s like a glacier. Unfortunately, so is the pace of the movie.

Grade: B-

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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=224 0 The Switch http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=221 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=221#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:33:52 +0000 admin http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=221 The Switch is a funny but conventional movie with Jason Bateman as a likable neurotic in New York City and Thomas Robinson as the adorable 6-year-old who is his son through a switch in sperm donors. Yes, it is odd that the idea of sperm donation is used as a plot device in this movie and The Kids Are All Right.

Grade: C+


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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=221 0 The Kids Are All Right http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=218 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=218#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:08:06 +0000 admin http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=218 This is the warm, witty and wise story of a family struggling with issues of sexuality and responsibility. It’s livelier than it may sound, because the parents are lesbians, the setting is hipper-than-thou Southern California, and the protagonist who kick-starts the plot is the sperm-donor father of the two teenage children.

Grade: B+


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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=218 0 Winter’s Bone http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=215 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=215#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:11:45 +0000 admin http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=215 Welcome to the bleak backwoods of the Missouri Ozarks, where the economy runs on cooking and dealing meth, and polite society rests on paranoia. This is powerful, authentic filmmaking, with little-known actors and a plain style that is so convincing you can hardly wait to escape it.

Grade: B+


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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=215 0 Inception http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=212 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=212#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:48:54 +0000 admin http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=212 Inception is worth seeing not only so you can join the conversation of what it means (I like the theory that it’s about filmmaking, with the DiCaprio character as director; and I like the idea that it’s cinematic jazz) but also to enjoy the dream-sequence visuals of folding cities, exploding café scenes and falling in ultraslow motion. It’s beautiful, thrilling and baffling.

Grade: A


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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=212 0 Predators http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=209 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=209#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:37:25 +0000 mcarpenter http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=209 By my count, this is the fifth film in the Predator series and the viewer still knows practically nothing about this turgid species of alien hunters — where do they come from, why do they hunt things, do they have an actual language or just stand around and screech at each other like idiots? When you come right down to it, they’re not even very good hunters — they use laser-guided shoulder cannons and invisible armor and still get their asses kicked by human ex-marines armed with nothing but tree branches.

Grade: D

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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=209 0 Despicable Me http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=207 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=207#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:17:41 +0000 mcarpenter http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=207 Despicable Me is an endlessly clever summer confection that had all the adults, teens and kids in the showing I attended laughing uproariously (me included). The film is just as touching and inventive as Toy Story 3, but packed with twice as many wonderful nicknacks (the villain’s car is the best Hollywood auto since the Batmobile).

Grade: A+

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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=207 0 Mother and Child http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=203 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=203#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:29:03 +0000 admin http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=203 An excellent script explores the relationships of mothers and daughters (male characters not so much) in this thoughtful, emotionally powerful film. All the acting is good, but Annette Bening really stands out as she takes her character through a transformation that is complete yet completely believable.

Grade: B+


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]]> http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?feed=rss2&p=203 0 Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=200 http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=200#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:02:31 +0000 mcarpenter http://skarblogs.com/2-sentencereviews/?p=200 This documentary confirms what I’ve always believed about Joan Rivers — she’s a vicious, self-obsessed, unforgiving old shrew who puts on a particularly vile and malignant stand-up comedy act. I will give her this: At 75, she works harder and longer than a harbor full of longshoremen.

Grade: B+

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