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 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:52:57 PST Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:52:57 PST http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/22870102/review/30842703/me_and_orson_welles http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/22870102/review/30842703/me_and_orson_welles?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:03:12 PST Starring:
Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Christian McKay
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What do you say about a movie that proves Zac Efron can act, introduces a master thespian in Christian McKay and launches a charm assault that is damn near irresistible? I say, see it. Director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) has crafted a thrilling movie about, of all things, the theater. The time is 1937, the place is New York, and boy wonder Orson Welles (McKay) is rehearsing a modern-dress production of Julius Caesar that will set him on the path to legend. Linklater goes right at the exhilaration of it — you can practically breathe the air of the Mercury Theatre — leaving the grand gestures to Welles. British actor McKay plays the man who would be Citizen Kane in a miraculous act of physical and vocal transformation surpassed only by the way he seems to dig deep into...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/20727351/review/31095415/the_road http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/20727351/review/31095415/the_road?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:22:12 PST Starring:
Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee
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A father and son are transformed into homeless scavengers by a cataclysmic event: the destruction of the world. The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen as a once-civilized man shepherding his 11-year-old boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) through an America ravaged into rubble, is adapted from Cormac McCarthy?s Pulitzer-winning 2007 novel. Whoa! That means film junkies, sucking on the jugular of Twilight escapism, will smell art and run like hell. For snobs, the default position is that no mere film can match the biblical ferocity of McCarthy?s prose. Watch Peter Travers review The Road in "At the Movies with Peter Travers" From the looks of things, The Road is fighting a losing battle. Not to director John Hillcoat, whose Aussie-based The Proposition was an underrated gem. Working from a...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/20727351/review/31095414/the_road http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/20727351/review/31095414/the_road?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:19:34 PST Starring:
Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee
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A father and son are transformed into homeless scavengers by a cataclysmic event: the destruction of the world. The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen as a once-civilized man shepherding his 11-year-old boy (Kodi Smit-McPhee) through an America ravaged into rubble, is adapted from Cormac McCarthy?s Pulitzer-winning 2007 novel. Whoa! That means film junkies, sucking on the jugular of Twilight escapism, will smell art and run like hell. For snobs, the default position is that no mere film can match the biblical ferocity of McCarthy?s prose. Watch Peter Travers review The Road in "At the Movies with Peter Travers" From the looks of things, The Road is fighting a losing battle. Not to director John Hillcoat, whose Aussie-based The Proposition was an underrated gem. Working from a...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/29190907/review/30986105/the_twilight_saga_new_moon http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/29190907/review/30986105/the_twilight_saga_new_moon?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:10:07 PST Starring:
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner
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Swooning tweens of all ages and sexes will work themselves into a lather deciding whether to join Team Edward (that's sometimes-shirtless vampire Edward Cullen, played by Robert Pattinson) or Team Jacob (that's perpetually shirtless werewolf Jacob Black, played by Taylor Lautner). Sign me up for Team Confused, since this is now the second film in Stephenie Meyer's four-book Twilight saga that fails to ignite the flame of Meyer's overheated prose. Director Chris Weitz shares the secrets of New Moon Catherine Hardwicke, who directed the first film, better caught the virginal yearning in Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), the high school girl torn between both monsters. Chris Weitz, the director of New Moon, pumps up the action as Jacob turns into an...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/26274654/review/30842704/broken_embraces http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/26274654/review/30842704/broken_embraces?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:04:08 PST Starring:
Penélope Cruz
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You may get whiplash following the twists and turns in the latest wild ride from Spain?s Pedro Almodóvar. But it hurts so good. Broken Embraces is the fourth film in which Almodóvar has directed his muse, Penélope Cruz. They bring out something elemental in each other, even when a plot defies description. Cruz plays Lena, a hooker-turned-actress who falls for her Almodóvar-ish director (Lluís Homar), who uses makeup, wigs and wardrobe to morph her into sexual fantasies men can watch. Then a car crash ends Lena?s life and the director?s career until . . . Get more news and reviews from Peter Travers on the Travers Take Well, I?ll never tell. What I will conjecture is that Broken Embraces, lyrically shot by Rodrigo Prieto, represents Almodóvar?s broken love affair with film itself...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/30552812/review/30842700/bad_lieutenant_port_of_call_new_orleans http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/30552812/review/30842700/bad_lieutenant_port_of_call_new_orleans?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:52:21 PST Starring:
Nicholas Cage, Eva Mendes
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There are few things more entertaining than watching Nicolas Cage go bug-fuck in a movie that knows how to present the spectacle in style. To my list of fave Cage meltdowns — Vampire?s Kiss, Wild at Heart and Face/Off — add this bad boy from director Werner Herzog, no stranger to diving off deep ends. Peter Travers reviews Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans in his weekly video podcast, "At the Movies with Peter Travers" Let me interrupt this review to state that any resemblance between this Bad Lieutenant and the 1992 Abel Ferrara landmark is purely in the head of the dude who thought up the title. Cage plays a junkie cop, just like Harvey Keitel did in the first one. End of similarity. As Cage?s Lieutenant Terence McDonagh roams the Katrina-ravaged Big Easy...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]>