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 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:29:24 PST Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:29:24 PST 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. Get more news and reviews from Peter Travers on the Travers Take 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 (Keitel?s beat was New York), Herzog doesn?t so much direct him as...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/6171201/review/30792744/the_messenger http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/6171201/review/30792744/the_messenger?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:46:22 PST Starring:
Woody Harrelson, Ben Foster, Samantha Morton
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If anyone asks you where the best and brightest new directors are coming from, point to Oren Moverman, whose vividly touching and vital debut feature signals the arrival of a filmmaker — he wrote the script with Alessandro Camon — who can bare the soul of a character with precision and healing compassion. The Messenger, showing humanity under siege, opens wounds inflicted by the Iraq War — not on the battlefield but in the hearts of the families of soldiers who never made it back home. It's the job of Capt. Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson in top form), of the Casualty Notification Office, to knock on the doors of wives, husbands and parents to deliver the worst kind of news. See Peter Travers review The Messenger on "At the...
Rating: 3 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/25457899/review/30842785/2012 http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/25457899/review/30842785/2012?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:36:10 PST Starring:
John Cusack, Danny Glover
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Beware 2012, which works the dubious miracle of almost matching Transformers 2 for sheer, cynical, mind-numbing, time-wasting, money-draining, soul-sucking stupidity. We probably are nearing the end of the movie world when it's easy to predict that the biggest turd in the bowl will rise to the top of the box office. Equally depressing is the pass some critics are giving to this 158 minute (you heard me!) slog through every end-of-days cliché in the Hollywood playbook. The fresh angle is the Mayan calendar that allegedly predicts that we will all bite the bullet on Dec. 21st, 2012. The Mayans should sue. See Peter Travers review 2012 on "At the Movies with Peter Travers" Where to start apportioning blame? How about director Roland Emmerich, who threatened the...
Rating: 1 Stars ]]> http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/26845638/review/30842701/pirate_radio http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/26845638/review/30842701/pirate_radio?source=movie_reviews_rssfeed Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:01:36 PST Starring:
Rhys Ifans, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Bill Nighy, Janua...
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Rock & roll history is being retraced in this appealingly ramshackle comedy from Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis. Set in England circa 1966, the movie revels in the chaos that ensued when prudes at the BBC decided rock music was an evil that needed censorship and maybe banning. That?s when a renegade band of merry-prankster DJs, collectively known as Radio Rock, took to the sea in an old tanker and started broadcasting the devil?s music 24/7. The BBC, in the tight-assed person of Kenneth Branagh?s government minister, declares war. Get more news and reviews from Peter Travers on the Travers Take Leader of the pirates is Quentin (the sublime Bill Nighy), a man not adverse to drugs and hookers if they keep his DJs spinning. The boat is overloaded with eccentrics, including...
Rating: 2 Stars ]]>