Friday, October 10 2008
The Starter Wife: Season Premiere
We should feel better, Starter Wife implies, about our own small lives by knowing the privileged lead lives far more painful and scandalous than even TMZ could report.
Thursday, April 24 2008
A Passage To India
This is a solid throwback to an era where the scope and poetry of the eloquent imagery were the only things that mattered.
Thursday, April 19 2007
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Marie Antoinette's veneer is so impregnably varnished, so buffed to such an imposing sheen, that any attempt at critical ingress either bounces off of or slides down its glossy façade.
Friday, October 20 2006
Marie Antoinette (2006)
A girl made queen by the peculiar forces of 18th-century statecraft, Marie is by turns amused, alarmed, and pissed off, mercurial and imperious as only a teenager can be.
Monday, September 18 2006
Serving in Silence: Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer (2006)
A well-meaning and well-done story of one woman's crusade against an unjust practice.
Friday, June 2 2006
The Break-Up (2006)
For all that goes wrong with The Break-Up, the most compelling question it raises has to do with the state of the romantic comedy.
