Movie Review Archive

Movie Reviews Archive

The amount of movie reviews on this website -- theatrical, festival, DVD -- is growing rapidly, so here they are collected in one place. As more are added, they will be linked here.

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2008

Theatrical Reviews (roughly by release date)

Hamlet 2
Tropic Thunder
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Mamma Mia!
The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience
Wanted
WALL-E
The Happening
The Visitor
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The Dhamma Brothers
Redbelt
Iron Man
Son of Rambow
The Forbidden Kingdom
Shine a Light (IMAX Rolling Stones concert movie)
Run, Fatboy, Run
The Bank Job
Be Kind, Rewind
In Bruges
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Suspension
The Orphanage
Cloverfield

DVD

800 CDs
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Gone Baby Gone

2007

Theatrical Reviews (roughly by release date)

Persepolis
There Will Be Blood
Sweeney Todd
I'm Not There
Suspension
Charlie Wilson's War
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
Lars and the Real Girl
Into the Wild
Margot at the Wedding
No Country for Old Men
American Gangster
Eastern Promises
The Darjeeling Limited
3:10 to Yuma
Rigged
Sicko
Live Free or Die Hard
Knocked Up
Pirates of the Caribbean III: At World's End
Grindhouse
300
Zodiac
Breaking and Entering
Music & Lyrics
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan's Labyrinth (El Labirinto del Fauno)
Children of Men

DVD

Babel
Carnal

2006

Theatrical Reviews (roughly by release date)

Dreamgirls
Fast Food Nation
Night at the Museum
Apocalypto
Casino Royale
The Fountain
The Queen
Blood Diamond
Stranger Than Fiction
Bobby
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Prestige
The Departed
Little Children
The Science of Sleep
Idiocracy
The Last Kiss
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Little Miss Sunshine
Lady in the Water
A Scanner Darkly
Pirates of the Caribbean II (a brief dismissal)
Superman Returns
The Devil Wears Prada
Strangers with Candy
Nacho Libre
An Inconvenient Truth
A Prairie Home Companion
Art School Confidential
Mission Impossible 3
American Dreamz
Brick
Inside Man
Thank You for Smoking
V for Vendetta
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
Transamerica
Firewall (early review)
Match Point
The Matador
The New World - original theatrical cut

DVD

Walk the Line

2005

Theatrical Reviews(roughly by release date)

Brokeback Mountain
Munich
The Family Stone
Syriana
King Kong (2005)
Walk the Line (early review)
Jarhead
Chicken Little (in Disney3D)
Shopgirl
Capote
A History of Violence
Flightplan
Corpse Bride
Roll, Bounce
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Constant Gardener
Brothers Grimm
2046
Junebug
Red Eye
Sky High
Murderball
Stealth
Wedding Crashers
My Summer of Love
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fantastic Four
War of the Worlds
Bewitched
Batman Begins
Howl's Moving Castle
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Cinderella Man
Crash (2005)
The Longest Yard
Kung Fu Hustle
Sin City
Constantine (mini-review after Tilda Swinton interview)
Million Dollar Baby
In Good Company

Tribeca Film Fest 2005

Laura Smiles

DVD Reviews

The God Who Wasn't There
Shoalin Soccer

2004

Theatrical

The Aviator
Spanglish
The Sea Inside
A Very Long Engagement
Closer
Kinsey
Finding Neverland
Ray

Blatantly Subtle: love, lost and found
A Quarter-Life Love
Sell Out
How I Got Lost

New York Film Fest 2004

Saraband
Palindromes
Sideways
Vera Drake
House of Flying Daggers
Or (My Treasure)