Friday, December 11 2009
Precious and Lee Daniels: State of the Race
In adapting author Sapphire's difficult novel for the screen, director Lee Daniels is helping change the way spectators view African American women by deploying stereotypes and then exploding them.
Monday, August 18 2008
Mirrors
While Ben's (Kiefer Sutherland) bouncing between selves is distracting, it's not nearly so irksome as Mirrors' general incoherence.
Friday, August 1 2008
Swing Vote
Swing Vote's satire is consistently unsurprising, even if it's warranted.
Thursday, May 1 2008
The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008
Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.
Tuesday, November 21 2006
Déjà Vu (2006)
The movie's leap from contemporary coppish thriller into science fiction is initially jarring.
Friday, August 25 2006
Idlewild (2006)
Percy's a mortician, aware of the ways that bodies can be disfigured and rearranged, how life and death are performances for audiences.
