Sat, March 20, 2010

Why “Greenberg” is No “Annie Hall”

Posted 12 hours, 49 minutes ago

It’s not writer-director Noah Baumbach’s fault if his movie “Greenberg,” about a guy named Greenberg, makes me wish for a movie called “Zoidberg,” about the friendless, incompetent, vaguely Yiddish, attention-craving crustacean physician from “Futurama.”

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“The Ghost Writer” Review

Posted 1 week, 1 day ago

It’s so frustrating to know that Roman Polanski makes great movies at least in part because he’s such a creep.

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“Green Zone” Review

Posted 1 week ago

“Too soon?” we worried when director Paul Greengrass brought out “United 93″ five years after the fact in 2006. Not so, it turned out, but there’s no getting around the less tactful too-lateness of Greengrass’ “Green Zone,” a juddering thriller with Army officer Matt Damon in 2003 Iraq

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