The Spiderwick Chronicles
Based on the series of five serial children’s novels, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a hollow spectacle that’s good for the action and effects but light on everything else.
Category: Reviews
Rails & Ties
Feels so forced and determined to convey a certain emotion that its authenticity is lost. And when there’s no sense of authenticity, there’s no emotional attachment.
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
It’s like doing a puzzle a second time. It’s familiar, it’s redundant and it’s rarely exciting.
P.S. I Love You
Richard LaGravense’s P.S. I Love You has plenty of sappy love-letter moments, but it’s also a very touching and real-feeling look at the grieving process.
Strange Wilderness
A few cute gags aside, this is an exercise in stupidity aimed at those who find 15 different names for a bong to be funny.
There Will Be Blood
The visuals, the pacing, an all-time great performance and a timely theme add up to make There Will Be Blood one of the most memorable films I have seen.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Another bizarre and beautiful excursion courtesy of one of Hollywood’s most creative minds.
Enchanted
It pulls out all the stops in hitting all the familiarities of the genre and spins it on its head in both a fun and intelligent way.
Dan in Real Life
Because it touches on the universal themes of loss and love so honestly, it is a film that feels authentic even in its many contrivances.
No Country for Old Men
Thank goodness that experiment in appeasing the commercial suit types is over and the quirky brothers are back to form with No Country for Old Men, a dark and violent exploration of nature’s hunt and the relevance of time.
