Reviews Archive

Fierce People

The rich are different in Dunne's class-conscious melodrama -- and not in a good way

By Michelle Orange

August 31, 2007

The Nines

August's metaphor-happy allegory for the writer's plight blows everything but your mind

By Vadim Rizov

August 30, 2007

Exiled

The unstoppable Johnnie To's third 2007 release is also the most entertaining film of the year

By R. Emmet Sweeney

August 29, 2007

The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun

Slim and sparsely drawn as its subject, Monastery delivers a meditation on grace

By Michelle Orange

August 23, 2007

Dedication

Theroux's debut a mid-90s redemption romance in the All the Sad Young Dudes mold

By Michelle Orange

The Nanny Diaries

Complacent tone and strangely tame direction make for boring Diaries entry

By Eric Kohn

The Hottest State

First love and first heartbreak compete for psychic space in Hawke's bloody valentine

By Michelle Orange

Resurrecting the Champ

Sexed-up adaptation a treatise on journalistic integrity that strays too far from its source

By Vadim Rizov

August 17, 2007

The Invasion

It's up with pod people once again, but Downfall director's vision gets blurred

By R. Emmet Sweeney

The 11th Hour

If documentary is the new disaster film, Leo's baby is B-movie material

By Michelle Orange