Over-the-hill characters, sailors-on-leave language, a back-in-time plot gimmick and a follow-the-formula script make for a run-of-the-mill movie. Nice title, though.
Grade: C
The Hurt Locker is not so much a story as it is a series of terrifying can-he-defuse-the-bomb sequences. Engrossing, yes — worthy of the Best Picture Oscar, hardly.
B-
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Ewan McGregor plays a ghostwriter hired to finish the memoirs (the first writer having died mysteriously) of a retired British prime minister, played by Pierce Brosnan and clearly representing Tony Blair. Director Roman Polanski shows his mastery of visual storytelling in this smart film of international politics and paranoia.
Grade: A
In a small town in Iowa, ordinary people mysteriously and increasingly go zombie, wreaking bloody havoc. The Crazies is more classic than innovative, but if you have some bejabbers you’d like to have scared out of you, this ought to do it.
Grade: B
Universal is marketing Green Zone like another Jason Bourne flick, but this film is really a heavy-handed indictment of the Bush administration’s lies about WMD in Iraq. OK, fine, but since this all happened in 2003, hasn’t the entire country literally seen this movie before?
B-
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Banter rules in this minor but funny buddy movie starring tough guy Bruce Willis and goofy guy Tracy Morgan as New York City police detectives. Fine supporting banter is supplied by the hilariously annoying Seann William Scott and the profane (except when her son’s around) Susie Essman.
Grade: B
Leo Tolstoy in his old age wrestles with the conflicting demands of his wife, with whom he has shared a full life of worldly pleasures, and the Tolstoyans all around him, who strive to live out the utopian ideals of his later years. The story is warm, sad, human – appropriate to Tolstoy, in other words – and filmed in beautiful country settings, with fine performances by Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren.
Grade: A
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