‘Doubt’ movie review: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman in Catholic drama
John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt is thought-provoking and refreshingly ambiguous
March 4, 2009
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John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt is thought-provoking and refreshingly ambiguous
Watchmen painstakingly lays it all out on the screen, daring viewers to accept or reject it on sight
Slumdog Millionaire is a stylized, energetic, crowd-pleasing picture that almost everyone can enjoy
Ron Howard’s Frost/Nixon fleshes out the famous 1977 TV interview between British talk-show host David Frost and former US president Richard Nixon
Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie is suspenseful and exciting and works well enough on popcorn terms to warrant a recommendation
Revolutionary Road is a real downer of a film buoyed by some phenomenal acting
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.
Vicky Christina Barcelona is lightweight, lighthearted, and liberal, but also surprisingly thoughtful
Taken is the kind of movie you might expect to see from a Bruce Willis or Jet Li. But no, here’s Liam Neeson
An exhilarating return to form for Peter Greenaway, Nightwatching is easily the cult director’s best film since 1989’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Tropic Thunder is the kind of outrageous no-holds-barred comedy that really works because it manages to keep its smarts while being so dumb
Hellboy II: The Golden Army compensates for what was missing in the first film and then some
The Orphanage is a first-rate thriller/ghost story that survives a plodding midsection by providing an eerie, Hitchcockian atmosphere
Martin Scorsese’s Shine a Light is the next best thing to seeing the Rolling Stones live in concert
Forgetting Sarah Marshall hits every note right – except for one unfortunately crucial one
Ignore the cynics: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a film for pulp lovers, a throwback to old Republic serials and Errol Flynn adventures
Paris je t’aime (Paris, I Love You) is about as good as this kind of thing can get
Iron Man is second only to Spider-Man 2 as the best translation of a Marvel character to the big screen yet
Sean Penn’s Into the Wild serves as a cautionary tale against the dangers of a nature we, perhaps, don’t know enough about as we should
In the Valley of Elah is an investigative drama that doesn’t quite reach the aspirations of its true-life story
Control profiles Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, who killed himself at age 23 in 1980, just as the post-punk band was rising to fame
3:10 to Yuma underscores its compelling tale of bringing an outlaw to justice with a psychological battle of wits and morals
Charlie Wilson’s War seems to have everything going for it. But there’s one fatal flaw: it’s too short
The Kite Runner succeeds in accurately retelling the book’s compelling story even though it occasionally falters along the way