Twitter Review: Dead Snow
Movie-loving ‘Dead Snow’ deals engagingly with undying evil and pointless greed, but the Nazi-zombie trifle is mostly large with intestines.
Movies
Twitter Review: Sugar
‘Sugar’ too broadly sketches Iowa and cuts corners with baseball, but its subversion of sports-movie expectations is refreshingly authentic.
Tagged: Anna Boden, Baseball, Reviews, Ryan Fleck, Sports Movies, Sugar, Twitter, Twitter Reviews
Twitter Review: Where the Wild Things Are
Saddled with too much emotional baggage, the great-looking ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is nearly joyless but in its goodbyes finds resonance
Twitter Review: Masters of Horror: Imprint
Blocked in the U.S., Miike’s ‘Masters of Horror’ episode is primal and fascinatingly transgressive, but the acting might be most horrifying.
Twitter Review: The House of the Devil
Retro horror ‘House of the Devil’ is so patient and sublimely creepy that it’s easy to forgive its ultimate silliness. An assured throwback.
Tagged: Horror, Reviews, The House of the Devil, Ti West, Twitter, Twitter Reviews
Twitter Review: Up in the Air
The nimble, expert ‘Up in the Air’ only seems to endorse its protagonist’s self-satisfied nihilism, but it fails to deeply pierce his armor.
Tagged: Jason Reitman, Reviews, Twitter, Twitter Reviews, Up in the Air
Twitter Review: The Informant!
‘The Informant!’ imposes a screwball score and exclamation point on a story that’s absurd but rarely funny. Only Damon’s investment engages.
Twitter Review: The Invention of Lying
‘Invention of Lying’ has a simple, resonant premise but is made without rigor. Only intermittent ingenuity saves it from offensive laziness.
Tagged: Comedies, Matthew Robinson, Reviews, Ricky Gervais, , Twitter, Twitter Reviews
Twitter Review: Coraline
Like Selick’s other animations, ‘Coraline’ is merely weird. While imaginative, meticulous, and thematically rich, it’s dull and oddly inert.
Tagged: Animation, Coraline, Henry Selick, Reviews, Twitter, Twitter Reviews
Majority Rules: How Oscar Got It Right
Regardless of which film takes home Best Picture on Sunday night, the Academy Awards finally got it right. I don’t mean that the best movie of 2009 will have won, even if one only considers the 10 nominees. Rather, the Oscars have chosen a sound voting system – an instant-runoff election – that nearly guarantees that every ballot will help determine whether Avatar or The Hurt Locker nabs the prize.
Tagged: Academy Awards, Avatar, Oscars, The Hurt Locker
