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Vanilla Sky (2/5)
Cruise and Crowe take all the good will and cash they earned with Jerry Maguire and put out the most bizarre big budget film of the decade. Wall-to-wall pop music does its best to make things soft and cuddly, but the material is dark and nasty. Credit to Diaz who puts up a riveting performance as the obsessed homicidal girlfriend (I was just complaining about her in ...
Source Code (4/5)
The same director as Moon, which I enjoyed. Chicago looks beautiful, and the occasional tripod shot broke up the moods quite well--nowadays everything is flying around on cranes to keep us awake. I like it when a director takes risks like that.
Scream (2/5)
See Scream 2.
Scream 2 (1/5)
This is a movie about a kid who kills all his kid friends and knocks over a lot of furniture, all ambitiously captured by an intrepid bitch reporter.
The Bodyguard (0/5)
Houston plays a drinkin', smokin', cussin', self-prescribed bitch with great skin, perfect teeth, a vengeful libido, and all the money and fame any one could hope for. Costner plays a style-less, disciplined, bore, who drives an El Camino, drinks Coors, and throws knives at fence posts. Let's hook em up! The film actually works well if you imagine that Houston is a ...
Tron: Legacy (2/5)
This might be the most expensive debut film ever made--Kosinski was just 35 when he directed this, and Disney gave him $170m to play with. It looks and sounds absolutely spectacular, and I wish I had seen this IMAX 3D.
The Switch (DNF)
An awful opening monologue from one Jason Bateman, telling us the hard truth that life isn't a fairy tale and that real connection is messy and complicated and not dreamy gushy hearts and arrows. Ugh. It read like some deep thinking college freshman who's doing his best to tell us how life really is, man. And, I remember hearing about the casting call for two extras ...
127 Hours (2/5)
I feel like I should be more enthusiastic about such a triumphant and shocking story. This is about the movie I expected it to be when I first saw the trailer--a guy gets stuck in a ravine for a long time, says goodbye to the camcorder, then cuts off his arm. Not much else.
Fair Game (3/5)
Probably a case of a film playing so close to the true story it was based on, that you wish they had thrown in a limousine car chase or some cocaine to keep things spicy. A sad look at the corruption and spin doctoring that was rampant in the Bush administration. 1% of the U.S. population is in prison--Scooter and Rove are among the 99.
Catfish (3/5)
The internet was upset at last week's episode of "Community" for ruining the end of this documentary--I don't agree, there wasn't much to spoil. Perhaps this would have been a surprising tale ten years ago, but nowadays we're all properly suspicious of any hot girls who chat us up online. The trailer shot itself in the foot, making the case for keeping the big secret ...