‘Rango’ movie review: Johnny Depp is a chameleon in gloriously strange trip
Gore Verbinski’s Rango is a gloriously strange trip, and a rare studio animated film that reflects a true vision
March 9, 2011
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Gore Verbinski’s Rango is a gloriously strange trip, and a rare studio animated film that reflects a true vision
Drive Angry knows exactly what it is and delivers all the violence, sex, action, and attitude that we could expect
The Adjustment Bureau is clean and competently made, centered around an intriguing Philip K. Dick premise
Roger Michell’s Morning Glory features cheerful performances, bright smiles, airy optimism, and a light, breezy tone
David O. Russell’s The Fighter ranks as one of the best boxing movies ever made, right up there with Rocky and Raging Bull.
Burlesque isn’t just a bad movie, it’s the worst kind of a bad movie: a tediously conventional slog that denies us even the smallest pleasures
True Grit, a new western from the Coen Brothers, is more or less as good as Henry Hathaway’s 1969 original starring John Wayne
London Boulevard is a striking, pulpy pop-culture amalgamation of British gangster movie clichés
The Red Shoes meets Repulsion in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, a riveting piece of psychological ballet horror
A classic romantic comedy of the lightly screwball variety, Kristián is one of the best-remembered and most beloved Czech films of its period
127 Hours is the fascinating true story of Aron Ralston, a mechanical engineer and adventurer who went hiking alone and got stuck in a canyon
Chain Letter is an out-and-out joke of a film, a risible piece of garbage incompetent on every level
Tangled, Disney’s 50th animated feature, returns the company to a more comfortable traditional fairy tale setting
The Tourist is a refined but lighthearted, Hitchcock-influenced thriller, which explicitly recalls North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief
Gulliver’s Travels is lightweight, dumb, and short enough to remain tolerable, though it bears little resemblance to the original story
The Next Three Days scores no points for originality but it is a taut, reasonably compelling and adult thriller
Mike Leigh lends a steady hand and a careful eye and ear to Another Year, a tone-perfect, life-affirming film that ranks among his best work
Season of the Witch might seem to legitimize the medieval witch hunting, or hey, take it a step further, the witch hunting in contemporary US politics
The Green Hornet is a heaping mess of a film that just about sinks to the level of A-Team or Transformers 2 incoherence
The Good Heart is about as unsubtle as (bad) silent melodrama, and within minutes it reaches an undesirable crescendo
The Kids Are All Right is light sitcom-level entertainment, tame and dull and even, perhaps, unwittingly offensive in design