Normally, I wouldn’t go near a movie based on toys, let alone review it, but my nephews wanted to see this, so I shrugged my shoulders and took them. Two ear-thrashing, intellect-numbing hours later, my nephews emerged from the theater all smiles while I emerged looking for an aid station.
Grade: D-
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Writer-director Quentin Tarantino throws the familiar elements of World War II movies in a blender, filters out anything that’s historically accurate or morally uplifting, and serves up a high-energy smoothie of sadistic Nazis, hunted Jews, tough Americans and bloody revenge. It’s politically incorrect and too long, but nobody’s better than Tarantino at keeping you on the edge of your seat.
Grade: A-
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Don’t mistake this new offering from Japanese genius animator Hayao Miyazaki for a simple, cheesy Pokémon cartoon. Ponyo is a strange masterpiece, with unique visual beauty (including mind-blowing storm scenes) and a fairy-tale-on-steroids plotline about a magic goldfish who wants to be human (one scene of healing a baby made my few hairs stand on end).
Grade: A+
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Whether you like your science fiction mixed with social commentary or not, you won’t find another movie as astonishingly original or brilliantly innovative as District 9 anywhere this summer. The story of spiny, shellfish-like extraterrestrials who are stranded on earth and forced to live in vile slums, I don’t know of another film that illustrates man’s inhumanity to man (or to alien) more effectively than this ingenious thriller.
Grade: A
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This supposedly muckraking documentary of unsanitary conditions in America’s food chain rakes very little muck and is surprisingly toothless. The film claims the main villain is “agribusiness” but then fails to get into the faces of the guilty companies.
Grade: C
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Meryl Streep delivers a wonderful, Oscar-worthy performance as Julia Child, the chef who introduced Americans to French cooking. This may join Capote and Infamous in a new mini-genre of films based on people of real accomplishments who became celebrities by seeming peculiar on TV.
Grade: B+
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This very languid, very French film portrays siblings as they deal with the death of their mother, revelations about her life, and issues of their inheritance. When the director gives more attention to a French country home than to Juliette Binoche (the only actor I recognized), you know you’re watching a dull movie.
Grade: C
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