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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Public' lacks emotion

Dillinger, gangsters well acted

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Michael Mann, director of "Public Enemies," has capped an extremely impressive decade of work with a movie that approaches greatness but just misses. His take on the violent gangsters of the 1930s and their pursuit by the FBI fails to find the emotional center it so desperately needs to rise above the level of a really good cops-and-robbers film.

MOVIE REVIEW: Dinos crash into 'Ice Age'

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Dawn of the Dinosaurs": They were just hanging out in a tropical land slightly under the Earth's icy crust, waiting for our favorite mastodons and their furry pals to drop in for some wacky adventures.

EDGE: 'Stoning' shows true face of torture

Friday, June 26, 2009

In a time when the word "torture" is tossed about relatively casually — especially in ritual denunciation of the Bush-Cheney war on terror — the medium of film is uniquely qualified to remind people just what torture actually looks like.

MOVIE REVIEW: '$9.99'

Heartbreak, loneliness and the meaning of life

Friday, June 26, 2009

In the animated adaptation "$9.99," Israeli author Etgar Keret and co-writer Tatia Rosenthal have taken several of his stories, moved them to Australia and woven them together to create an interlocking narrative, a sort of stop-motion "Pulp Fiction."

'Transformers' tiring

Lengthy sequel drags on

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Revenge of the Fallen," wants us to think about the big questions in life. Should man embrace his fate or run from it? Can love survive distance and temptation? Will an audience ever tire of giant robots fighting one another while the U.S. military throws everything in its arsenal against other giant robots?

MOVIE REVIEW: 'Year One'

Infantile gags mar Old Testament satire

Friday, June 19, 2009

There are two kinds of Harold Ramis movies: thoughtful, introspective comedies with deeper societal implications and gross-out, poop-joke comedies. "Year One" falls squarely into that second category.

SILVER NOTES: For political junkies

Friday, June 19, 2009

The centerpiece screening at the Silverdocs 2009 festival was Wednesday's world premiere of "Convention," a collaborative effort from eight documentarians covering last year's Democratic National Convention.

EDGE: Moore worry haunts cinema

Friday, June 19, 2009

With the Silverdocs festival to wrap up Monday, it's a good time to weigh the impact on the documentary form of the brash ideologue whose confrontational style has come to define it — for good and for ill.

MOVIE REVIEW: 'Food, Inc.'

Where does our food come from?

Friday, June 19, 2009

There are some indisputable facts about our nation's food supply. Less positive but no less true are the facts about the nation's health. "Food, Inc." takes a look at the intersection of these trends and tries to determine the source.