Tuesday, May 13 2008
The Golden Compass
Scruffy and unpolished in the open casting call, Dakota Blue Richards shines in her role as the gutsy heroine.
The Golden Compass
Too bland and disjointed to match up with either set up expectations, The Golden Compass is too familiar to be beguiling, too interested in appeasing masses and selling the Corgi toy line.
Friday, April 13 2007
Casino Royale (2006)
Casino Royale feels sleek, lean, shorn of fat, lithely running freely along that relentless but perilous path from point A to point B in classic parkourfashion.
Thursday, November 16 2006
Casino Royale (2006)
The new Bond understands loss, but focuses on revenge instead of grief. He's a hard body in a hard new world.
Friday, May 6 2005
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
As history, it is mightily revisionist -- a blacksmith named turns inadvertent defender of Jerusalem, devoted to the notion that Muslims and Christians can get along.


































