Roger Ebert has called Ramin Bahrani “The New Great American Director” and, after you’ve seen Man Push Cart, Chop Shop, and this week’s Goodbye Solo, you’ll understand why. Solo is a cab driver who befriends an elderly gentleman named William who has asked him to drive him to Blowing Rock, ...Read more

As a film critic, I'm often asked about the incredible Pixar animation streak that has produced masterpieces like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and WALL-E in such a relatively short period of time. In decades, people will look back at this period of Pixar like they do the early ...Read more

DreamWorks' Monsters vs. Aliens is an automatic conversation starter for hardcore movie fans. And by “hardcore,” we mean movie shirt-wearing, convention-attending, quote-spewing movie fans. Anyone who doesn’t openly acknowledge their deep movie dorkness should move on now. It’s gonna get ugly.

With references to Attack of the 50-Foot Woman, The Blob, ...Read more

I don't usually open up about my own emotional reaction to a film, but my response to Ramin Bahrani's excellent Goodbye Solo was unusual enough that I believe it says something about the caliber of what this mega-talented young filmmaker has accomplished. I was riveted throughout the entire film by ...Read more

It's not surprising that I Love You, Man comes from the mind of John Hamburg - the writer/director best known for authoring the screenplay for Meet the Parents (and its lesser sequel, Meet the Fockers) and for directing Along Came Polly - because the dominant impression one gets after leaving ...Read more

Tony Gilroy is back with the same whip-smart ear for dialogue that helped make Michael Clayton one of the more acclaimed films of the last few years and another ridiculously talented ensemble working on all cylinders to produce the light, breezy, enjoyable Duplicity. After the intense mystery of Clayton, Gilroy ...Read more

Amy Adams shines in the mostly charming Sunshine Cleaning, a film with elements that truly work and a fantastic central performance, but that never quite comes together as perfectly as one would hope. Co-starring Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Steve Zahn, and Clifton Collins Jr., this is a comedy that could ...Read more

Sean McGinley's The Great Buck Howard tells the story of a man whose form of entertainment has gone the way of the dodo, vaudeville, and the career of Steven Seagal and yet feels old-fashioned in its own right, the kind of comedy/coming-of-age story with a wide demographic appeal but no ...Read more

Film critics that also happen to be horror movie junkies are an unusual breed. I happen to be one, so I know of what I speak. More than, say, drama, comedy, or Belgian movie fans, I feel like we're constantly searching for that next indie horror movie fix, going out ...Read more

With Underworld: Rise of the Lycans opening earlier this year, Let the Right One In winning awards right and left (but getting snubbed by the Oscars), and every casting rumor about the Twilight sequel, The Twilight Saga's New Moon, turning the internet into a message board-posting rampage, blood-sucking creatures of ...Read more