http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed The final word on all the movies everyone's talking about, straight from the editors of Rolling Stone. http://i.rollingstone.com/rs/images/rs_logo.gif http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed 140 37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us © Copyright 2008 Rolling Stone Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:55:53 PDT Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:55:53 PDT http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18295338/review/23290330/miracle_at_st_anna http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18295338/review/23290330/miracle_at_st_anna?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:57:21 PDT Starring:
Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke, Laz Alonso
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Critics are raining down hard on Spike Lee's first war epic. And it's not like I don't have objections. Miracle at St. Anna is too long, lazily constructed, and crammed with too many characters and subplots for any director to develop fully outside of an HBO miniseries. But Lee isn't any director. He's an African-American maverick with a legit gripe against the white face that Hollywood puts on war. The first scene in Miracle shows us a black World War II veteran watching John Wayne on TV lording it over the D-Day invasion in The Longest Day. "We fought that war too," says the vet. Point taken. It's no surprise that Lee decided to make a film of James McBride's well-received novel about the Buffalo Soldiers, black GIs segregated from the regular Army, who served with the 92nd Infantry...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/19469996/review/23290290/eagle_eye http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/19469996/review/23290290/eagle_eye?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:54:34 PDT Starring:
Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan
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Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down the action we'd figure out how stupid the plot is? Did Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan think there was any acting involved in playing characters on the run from a computer intent on global domination? Are BlackBerrys and iPhones the enemy because they make us easy for the computer to track? Can the computer make me forget this movie?
Rating: 1 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/20192669/review/23356409/flash_of_genius http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/20192669/review/23356409/flash_of_genius?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:19:41 PDT Starring:
Greg Kinnear
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For a while, it looked like Greg Kinnear showed his acting chops best with supporting roles in the likes of As Good as It Gets, Little Miss Sunshine and the current Ghost Town. Well, hang on. Kinnear takes the star spot in Flash of Genius and rides it to glory. He plays Robert Kearns, the Detroit professor, inventor and father of six who came up with the idea for the intermittent windshield wiper during the 1960s. Go ahead, groan. I felt the same way. A night reading patent law seems more exciting. But Kinnear takes this true story — John Seabrook's 1993 New Yorker article formed the basis of the script, by Philip Railsback — and runs with it. Kearns had his "flash of genius" when a champagne cork popped his eye on his honeymoon with wife Phyllis (Lauren Graham). Why couldn't a...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18264868/review/23356408/nick__norahs_infinite_playlist http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18264868/review/23356408/nick__norahs_infinite_playlist?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:16:56 PDT Starring:
Michael Cera, Kat Dennings
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"Slight" is too strong a word to apply to this teen spin on Martin Scorsese's After Hours. Peter Sollett, a director with indie cred thanks to his 2002 Raising Victor Vargas debut, takes us on an odyssey into Manhattan's night world that toddles when you ache for it to toot. The script, by Lorene Scafaria, is Afterschool Special 101: Nick (Michael Cera), an alt-rock bassist, makes mixtapes for mean girl Tris (Alexis Dziena), who dumps him. After a gig with his two gay bandmates, Nick meets and falls for Nora (Kat Dennings), who likes his tapes and his yellow Yugo. They drive around the five boroughs looking for her drunk girlfriend (a funny Ari Graynor) and the club where Where's Fluffy are playing a secret concert. I'm yawning just writing this. The compensations are Cera and Dennings,...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18298108/review/23356406/happygolucky http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18298108/review/23356406/happygolucky?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:13:09 PDT Starring:
Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan
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Get ready for Sally Hawkins, a dynamo of an actress who will have her way with you in Happy-Go-Lucky, leaving you enchanted, enraged to the point of madness and utterly dazzled. No list of the year's best performances should be made without her. You should know right off that this is a Mike Leigh movie. It's a cheerier piece of business than you might expect from the British provocateur behind Naked, Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake, but nonetheless a movie driven by character. Leigh, brought up in a Jewish immigrant family, has been called a poet of the working class. His scripts come out of improvisation, from what the actors come up with during rehearsals. More praise, then, to Hawkins, who put her heart into the persistent smile and bruised soul of Poppy, a London elementary-school...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18271341/review/23356379/rocknrolla http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/18271341/review/23356379/rocknrolla?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:08:18 PDT Starring:
Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton
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Great title for a gangster flick. Too bad that writer-director Guy Ritchie only partially realizes the sizzling potential. The movie has a good thing going in scrappy Gerard Butler, who trades in his 300 swords and sandals to play One Two, a guppy scam artist in London real estate hoping to learn from the great white shark, Lenny Cole (the slumming but ever wonderful Tom Wilkinson). All types of hoods enter the fray, with Thandie Newton the sexiest as a crooked accountant, Mark Strong the most intriguing as Lenny's wingman, Toby Kebbell the most dangerous as Lenny's punk-junkie stepson, Nonso Anozie the most irresistible as a whale-size hood who fancies fine art and Merchant Ivory films, and Jeremy Piven and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges the most negligible as rock promoters in a crammed cast...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]>