‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ movie review: Brad Pitt in Fincher curiosity
David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a strange film with a strange premise
January 28, 2009
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David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a strange film with a strange premise
Traitor examines the moral aspects of terrorism and the similarities between those fighting on opposite sides.
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans gives us what we might expect from a vampires vs. werewolves movie
My Best Friend’s Girl may be watchable (just barely) but it’s so unpleasant you’ll be left feeling slimy for hours afterward
Che; Part One is an incredible portrait of worldwide revolutionary icon Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara
Yes Man represents an amalgamation of Carrey comedies Fun with Dick and Jane, Bruce Almighty, and, mostly, Liar, Liar
Burn After Reading is a goofy spy comedy that has to live up to last year’s Oscar-winning drama No Country for Old Men.
Changeling is a film that really delivers – compelling story, gorgeous production design, excellent performances
An unfortunate title describes its contents all-too-well in Robert B. Weide’s How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Australia falls on all counts to do justice to its titular country as it turns in an embarrassingly crude apology
The Flashdance-inspired Make It Happen is an embarrassing, poorly choreographed and atrociously edited dance drama
In the mold of Elephant and Last Days, Gus Van Sant brings us another minimalist drama in Paranoid Park
Four Christmases feels like a rush job completed under the gun in order to make it to cinemas for the holiday season
The Day the Earth Stood Still feels restrained by the structure of a film it can’t possibly live up to
High School Musical 3: Senior Year arrives in cinemas after the first 2 direct-to-Disney Channel films became massive hits on cable and DVD
Bangkok Dangerous is a woefully misconceived picture that is nevertheless good for some unintentional laughs
Ridley Scott’s Body of Lies gets by on some strong performances and a surprisingly intricate, well-detailed story
Twilight is a cornball Harlequin romance with a Romeo and Juliet-like love story between a human girl and a vampire boy
The Strangers plays mostly like Michael Haneke’s Funny Games without the art-film subtext
Repo! The Genetic Opera is what happens when filmmakers set out to make a cult movie: too much cult, not enough movie
Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race should please genre fans and represents a solid effort among the director’s oeuvre
Dreamworks Animation’s Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is brighter, livelier, funnier, and a shade or two better than 2005’s Madagascar
The Women is a painful experience that wastes an extremely talented and likable cast
Quantum of Solace lacks the elegance and grace that earmarked Casino Royale and makes James Bond what he is