Posts categorized “Movie Reviews”

7-Up

This is a movie that is a rarity: it has actually grown on me over time. I like it a little more each time I see it. I got it on DVD for Christmas and have watched it three times since then. I really, really like it. What’s that? No, I didn’t read the books first. I’m reviewing a movie here, not a book! [Read my full review]

Mind-bending

Inception is an incredibly well-directed film that strikes absolutely just the right pitch-perfect notes in its performances, music, camerawork, cinematography, special effects, just about everything. It’s a heist movie with a sci-fi premise, but don’t worry–it’s not a laser gun and spaceship sci-fi movie. It’s a “one thing” sci-fi story, where the world is exactly as it is today except for one thing, and the film explores the ramifications of that one thing. [Read my full review]

Let’s kick it

Kick-Ass is a movie about horrifying things: a deranged man teaching his pre-pubescent daughter to be a murderer; a teenager getting stabbed, hit by a car, having multiple surgeries and going through painstaking physical therapy; a cruel gangster using his son as bait to lure his deadly enemies; a girl watching her father be burned to death. And it’s all presented as a rollicking, wacky, almost feel-good comedy. And somehow it works. [Read my full review]

Look at this place! It’s too good to be true, right? Right.

This is my favorite movie of 2010. It is the only movie that made me cry. And twice! Once with laughter, and once with genuine emotion. [Read my full review]

World peace in the palm of his hand…?

I really, really wanted to like this movie more than I do/did. It has soooo much going for it, and yet for some reason or other it never coalesces into an actually good movie. [Read my full review]

He’s harmless. Honest!

I enjoyed this movie quite a bit more than I thought I would. Carrie had a much more visceral emotional response to it than I did, though. She calls it “The Suki Dragon Movie” because the main dragon in the film reminds her so much of our dog Suki. [Read my full review]

I see you, baby, shakin’ that thang

Avatar is a beautiful, stunning film. It is an engrossing epic, a virtuoso action flick, a technical marvel. It is full of wonder and thrills and heartaches and triumphs. It is an incredible movie. If only someone other than James Cameron had written the dialogue. [Read my full review]