http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed The final word on all the movies everyone's talking about, straight from the editors of Rolling Stone. http://i.rollingstone.com/rs/images/rs_logo.gif http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed 140 37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us © Copyright 2009 Rolling Stone Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:55:27 PST Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:55:27 PST http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/6166519/review/30792747/the_box http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/6166519/review/30792747/the_box?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:49:39 PST Starring:
Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella
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I'm not ready to give up on Richard Kelly and his questing intelligence as a filmmaker. Memories of Donnie Darko stay strong, no matter how much Kelly's focus came unglued in 2006's Southland Tales and now, to a lesser extent, in The Box. The premise, drawn from a 1980's Twilight Zone episode itself drawn from Richard Matheson's short story Button, Button, is creepily delicious. The setting is the suburbs of Virginia, near NASA's Langley Research Center. The year is 1976 when NASA's Viking Project became the first U.S. mission to land a spacecraft on the surface of Mars and send photos back to earth. Frank Langella (Oscar nominee for Frost/Nixon) is wonderfully sinister as an elegant stranger with a hole in his cheek who shows up — the box in hand — at the home of...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/26845648/review/30792745/the_men_who_stare_at_goats http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/26845648/review/30792745/the_men_who_stare_at_goats?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:47:51 PST Starring:
George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Ewan McGregor
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It's hard to resist a satire, even when it wobbles, that insists the most unbelievable parts are the most true. If you always thought the men who run U.S. military intelligence are wack jobs, here's the farce to prove it. Michigan journalist Bob Wilton (Ewan McGregor), reporting in Iraq circa 2003, stumbles on a story that dates back to the 1980s, when the government organized a secret unit of psychic warriors devoted to achieving peace through telepathy. These men can stare a goat down till its heart stops. And that's just for starters. Watch them try to walk through walls and read the minds of their foes. Watch Peter Travers review The Men Who Stare At Goats on "At the Movies with Peter Travers" Bob's source is Lyn Cassady, hilariously played by George Clooney...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/25457970/review/30792742/precious http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/25457970/review/30792742/precious?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:44:34 PST Starring:
Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Mariah Carey
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When I tell people how good this movie is — and I can't shut up about it — they flash me the stink eye. As in "Yeah, right, like I need to sink into a depression coma for two hours watching a fat, illiterate, HIV-positive Harlem girl get knocked up (twice) by her daddy, brutally battered by her mother and laughed at by a world eager to pound abuse on her 16-year-old ass." Watch Peter Travers review Precious on "At the Movies with Peter Travers." Won't you dickheads be surprised. Precious, saddled with a clumsy subtitle — Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire — tunnels inside your head, leaves you moved like no film in years and then lifts you up in ways you don't see coming. Despite the pain at the story's core, the movie has a spirit that soars....
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/30552797/review/30703874/this_is_it http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/30552797/review/30703874/this_is_it?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:52:28 PDT Starring:
Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson's perfectionism fails him in This Is It, and we're all the better for it. What we see in this unmissable two-hour concert film, culled from 120 hours of digital-video footage of Jackson rehearsing for a promised comeback that ended with his death at age 50 on June 25th, is a world-class performer trying to make the MJ on stage match the MJ in his head. Watching his struggle is illuminating, unnerving and unforgettable. First Take: Michael Jackson?s Final Dreams Come to Life as This Is It Film Premieres. During prep time from March to June of this year, director Kenny Ortega caters to the every whim of his fragile, passive-aggressive star, knowing instinctively that yelling will only produce pouting not results. This Is It, a so-called "gift" to the...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/24209828/review/30604014/cirque_du_freak_the_vampires_assistant http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/24209828/review/30604014/cirque_du_freak_the_vampires_assistant?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:06:07 PDT Starring:
John C. Riley, Salma Hayek, Michael Ceveris
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Do we really need another vampire movie? Well, this one is based on a popular tweener series of a dozen books by British writer Darren Shan. Director and co-writer Paul Weitz claims he loves the series, and Weitz?s credits — he and his brother Chris Weitz gave us American Pie and About a Boy — got my attention. ( Watch Peter Travers review Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant in his weekly series, "At the Movies With Peter Travers".) But the mess onscreen does no one any favors. The Cirque du Freak itself has flavor with sexy Salma Hayek as the bearded lady, 30 Rock?s Jane Krakowski as a limb regenerator and especially stage actor supreme Michael Cerveris (Tommy, Sweeney Todd), swathed in foam rubber as the fatso villain, Mr. Tiny. Newcomer Chris Massoglia...
Rating: 1 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/30552766/review/30604011/amelia http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/30552766/review/30604011/amelia?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:03:05 PDT Starring:
Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor
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The aerial photography in this biopic looks slick, as does two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as the rangy pioneer aviatrix Amelia Earhart, who went missing in 1937 while trying to circumnavigate the globe in her flying machine. But, oh mama, the minute the characters open their mouths, the onslaught of clichés brings the movie down in flames. The god-awful script by Ron Bass (Rain Man) and Anna Hamilton Phelan (Gorillas in the Mist) is assaultive in its insistence that ?dreams have no boundaries? and other sentiments that even Hallmark would reject as too fucking much. ?Who wants a life imprisoned in safety?? Amelia asks in a voice-over. And you want to shout, ?This movie does, honey.? There?s not a real or spontaneous minute in it.
Rating: 1 Stars ]]>