Deeeeee-pressing! I mean, really depressing. And, initially, boring and annoying. The businessmen at Jeannie’s apartment, all fake-laughing drunkenly and crazily, and everyone’s all disheveled and hostile and WE GET IT, Cassavetes. But then, when the …

Vintage early-’70s Allen, with all that that implies, and painfully dated in spots, although I liked the last segment a lot; Burt Reynolds is hilarious, just by showing up.The rest of it felt slow and …

An utterly charming, intelligent movie that trusts the audience to keep up. It’s smart, it’s sweet and sad, and what great performances by the entire cast — even Elijah Wood, for whom I had an …

YEAH. Good times. The slo-mo sequence as he’s stomping on Oharra’s head…brilliant.

Did not like it, and I really wanted to, too. I went into the movie in a wretched mood, which didn’t help, but it really seemed like two entirely different movies to me — the …

Check it out if it’s on HBO; I kind of wish we’d gotten more back story on the assistant (you’ll know what I mean when you see the credits), but it’s still a really interesting …

I like John Sayles, but I think I know too much about the Black Sox scandal to tolerate the movie’s necessary compression of so many complicated issues and minor events into a neat two-hour package. …

I forget who recommended this one to me.   Alas: disappointed.   The little freeze-frame tutorial at the beginning is so promising, but then it’s just kind of slow, and while it does pick up …

I’d never seen a Marx Brothers movie before, and a lot of it has not aged well; it’s informed so much by vaudeville, and it’s just kind of not how we think as a culture …

You don’t expect much from a Bond movie in certain areas, but I didn’t love this one — it tried too hard for “serious” at the beginning, it went on too long, and Halle Berry …