Wednesday, May 6 2009
Wings: Final Season
Dependable but not exceptional and with the right expectations, a certain amount of enjoyment can still be found.
Monday, August 4 2008
Monk: Season Six
If season seven doesn’t prove more interesting, I’m ready to wash my hands (repeatedly) of Monk.
Friday, September 14 2007
Sacco and Vanzetti
Director Peter Miller should be commended for his determination to craft this well known story without bombast and sensation, but rather with intelligence and compassion.
Friday, September 8 2006
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
This 9/11 film is subtle to a fault; this is a quality you may not expect in a film from Danny Leiner, master of the vehicular stoner comedy.
Thursday, August 17 2006
The Great New Wonderful (2005)
Lack of understanding will be a sort of theme for Danny Leiner's film, uneven but full of rewarding subtleties.
Friday, June 9 2006
Cars (2006)
Thrilling in its shiny surface detail, the NASCAR scene stretches before you like an anthropomorphized vista: this is the immediate future of animation, and Pixar, recently and loudly sold to Disney, means to own it.
