JENNIFER’S BODY *1/2 When Diablo Cody won the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for the delightful Juno, I’m assuming it was less for her hip-today-gone-tomorrow dialogue and more for her creation […]

TAKING WOODSTOCK ** A major disappointment from director Ang Lee, Taking Woodstock purports to tell the true story of how the legendary youth festival came together in time for a […]

    INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS *** Once upon a time, Hollywood used to believe less in the adage “War Is Hell” and more in its own bastardization, “War Is Swell.” For […]

DISTRICT 9 *** District 9 is Independence Day for the art-house set. And although it’s already being hailed in many quarters as a model of originality, the truth of the […]

  JULIE & JULIA ***1/2 No question about it: Nora Ephron gets a bum rap from both critics and moviegoers, who often disparage her as if she were Hollywood’s female […]

(500) DAYS OF SUMMER***1/2DIRECTED BY Marc WebbSTARS Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel It’s too soon to tell whether (500) Days of Summer will emerge as an Annie Hall or The Graduate […]

ext-no indent   THE HURT LOCKER *** Who knew that director Kathryn Bigelow was anything other than a Hollywood hack? Sure, sure, she’s had her supporters, but practically all of […]

  HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE*** Chris Columbus was unfairly lambasted in some quarters for the first two Potter pics, but I think his comparatively lighthearted approach worked since […]

FOOD, INC. *** The documentary Food, Inc. is the perfect bookend movie, adaptable to many double-feature bills. When paired with Super-Size Me, it serves as the “before” shot, showing how […]

PUBLIC ENEMIES **1/2 Moviegoers hoping that Public Enemies would have been the film to save the summer season from its own worst impulses will be disappointed to learn that the […]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen * To both my horror and delight — horror because of my general disdain for the Michael Bay oeuvre, delight because of my desire to […]