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 …

Pretty by-numbers stuff, but I enjoyed it more than I’d expected to, mostly because of Stanley Tucci.   Streep is getting all the glowing reviews, and she’s great, but when Tucci is onscreen is when …

Loved it!   The kitten-wrangling scene is brilliant, of course, but the whole thing is just so neatly done — it’s funny, it’s not too in love with itself, the pace is great.   I …

Loved it.   Loved it!   It’s confusing and derivative, but who cares — Sam Rockwell is my husband!   All right, all right.   If you want it to make sense, you won’t like …