I liked it, although I usually find Annette Bening maddening for some reason; she doesn’t have much range and she’s often too whiny for me. I’d have preferred to see a movie all about the …

I suspect that it’s difficult for a contemporary audience to get as much out of these WWI movies as they should, since we know now what they couldn’t have known then. The whole societal attitude …

Believe it or not, I’d never it  seen before. It could have used tighter cutting, but it’s so ridiculous that it works somehow. (7/12/04)

It isn’t quite as weighty as I expected; the movie part is actually fairly slight, relying as it does on old footage to fill in the plot. But it’s interesting, it moves well, and the …

It’s kind of funny, but also kind of tired — like, everyone onscreen literally seemed exhausted. It felt really low-energy compared to the first two and never really caught fire. Then again, we missed the …

I did not realize how completely both Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave had gotten robbed at the Oscars until now. McKellen is just amazing, completely natural and transporting as a storyteller; the sequence where he …

Gustave told me the book is way better, so I scampered over to Half.com to order it, but…man. I have such a girl-crush on Angelina Jolie. I. LOVE. Her. The movie is pretty bad, and …

It isn’t a good movie, but it really had potential, and I have to say that the montage is the best part — although it’s not so much “best” as “most interesting,” and it gets …

Too tricksy, too in love with itself, and wow, do people not talk to each other like they do in the last half hour. I liked Portman a lot despite how aggressively quirky the character …

The first half is great, with all the cross-cutting and Kirk Douglas bad-assing his way through a carjacking (of young Dennis Franz!) and Amy Irving melting down at school (at the same table as young …