This Oscar-winning film from Argentina (in Spanish, with English subtitles) tells a powerful tale of murder, romance and revenge. Unlike so many movies where crimes are driven by greed and solved by intellect, here motives flow from the heart and secrets are revealed in the eyes.
Grade: A
At the risk of agreeing with Bill, Toy Story 3 is as close to a perfect movie as you can get. Joyously inventive and deeply touching, it had this old curmudgeon laughing out loud and crying like a toddler.
Grade A+
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Andy’s going off to college, and the question of what will happen to Woody, Buzz and all his other toys makes this the sweetest and saddest Toy Story yet. As always, Pixar holds to the highest standards of visual wit and clever characters – I especially loved the Ken and Barbie dolls.
Grade: A+
Writer/director Nicole Holofcener, who wrote and directed Friends with Money, has created another morality play with more shades of gray than black-and-white lines. The excellent cast includes Catherine Keener as a Manhattan liberal trying to donate away her guilt, Oliver Platt as her pleasantly puzzled husband, and Amanda Peet as an evil bitch you can’t help but like.
Grade: B
In this Korean movie set in a small rural town, a slow-witted young man is accused of a vicious murder, and his fanatically devoted mother tries to prove his innocence. As the mystery unfolds with a strangeness reminiscent of Hitchcock or Lynch, keep in mind one character’s warning: “Don’t trust anyone, including me.”
Grade: B+
Don’t pay attention to the “monster picks off humans one by one” marketing for this movie. Splice is actually a thoughtful and deeply terrifying Frankenstein story that goes places you’d never suspect.
Grade: B+
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What disappoints me so much about Get Him to the Greek is that the film offers nothing new or surprising. It’s simply the sum of its trailers — fat, stupid Jonah Hill chasing the loathsome Russell Brand around Los Angeles.
Grade: D
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Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl have the chemistry to make a fun, funny and sexy movie, but this clumsy attempt to recycle True Lies is not it. The only entertaining part was when the couple realized that everyone they thought they knew – the work pals they never really liked, the neighbors they could barely stand – was cheerfully trying to kill them.
Grade: C-
Film noir puts on a blue collar and gets nasty in this flick about adultery, arson, murder and blackmail, set around a construction site in Australia. Although the ending is a dud and the down-under dialect is hard to follow, the characters are believable, the plotting is tight and the atmosphere is suspenseful.
Grade: B
Unless you’re a 12-16-year-old boy, this extended SNL sketch is probably not for you. MacGruber has some genuine laughs, but they’re smothered by a literal mountain of infantile poop jokes that are simply vile.
Grade: C
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