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Review: 'Polisse' is an unflinching cop drama
"Polisse" feels like the two-hour pilot for the kind of meaty cop drama that could only exist on cable television, one you'd want to program into your DVR to watch all season long. The subject matter is inherently repulsive — crimes against children — yet the film itself, which won ...
Review: 'Hysteria' has a few oohs, aahs, no Big O
Like the inventors of the vibrator it depicts, "Hysteria" really aims to please. And like an inattentive lover displaced by the sexual aid, the film never quite satisfies. True to the title, there are a few hysterically funny moments as a couple of Victorian-era British doctors and an amateur inventor ...
Review: Expect few laughs from 'What to Expect'
If only "What to Expect When You're Expecting" had focused on the dads' group, and didn't just drop in on them a handful of times, we might have been onto something here. Chris Rock, Thomas Lennon and Rob Huebel are among the dudes who meet regularly to push their kids ...
Review: Goldthwait goes off in 'God Bless America'
Bobcat Goldthwait's targets are many and easy and obvious in "God Bless America," his satire of everything that's wrong with the world today, but he hits them squarely and in bold fashion. The former stand-up comic has carved out an intriguing career as the writer and director of dark, daring ...
Review: In murder tale, 'Bernie' an ode to Texas
The real stars of Richard Linklater's "Bernie" are, unquestionably, the townspeople of Carthage, Texas. In documentary-like interviews, the East Texas locals (a mix of real Carthage folk and Texas actors) fill the film from start to finish — a gang of colorful gossips whose heavy accents and wry prattle essentially ...
Review: Action balances laughs in 'Pirates'
Aardman Animations' distinctively charming brand of Claymation returns to the big screen at last in "The Pirates! Band of Misfits," a delightful romp whose varied pleasures should please kids all along the age spectrum. An easy sell at the box office, it is sequel-ready thanks to a series of books ...
Review: Plant life is scarce in Seuss' green fable
Dr. Seuss died in 1991, saving him from the gaudy, big-screen abominations of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000) and "Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat" (2003). These weren't just bad movies; they were hyperkinetic nuisances, antithetical to the wise economy of the good Doctor. Now, after a passable ...
Review: Supporting cast carries 'Bad Teacher'
An employee of the Chicago Public Schools system, the ha-cha seventh grade educator Elizabeth portrayed by Cameron Diaz in "Bad Teacher" blows most of her classroom time showing her students (whose names she never learns) movies such as "Lean on Me," "Stand and Deliver" and "Dangerous Minds" while she nurses ...
Review: 'Tree of lIfe' takes on mankind's biggest quandaries
"The Tree of Life" introduces a character pondering the meaning of existence as he searches for the answers to the universe's most perplexing questions. Undeniably impressive, it's a film that will have viewers posing questions as well, just not the ones its director may have intended. For what Terrence Malick's ...
Review: 'The First Grader' gets good marks
Early on in "The First Grader," an ancient man, as hard and lean as his walking stick, strides miles across the coarse Kenyan bush. When he gets to his destination — a rural primary school — the gate is already locked leaving him to stand alone on one side, with ...
'80s teen slice of life likable, if a little dazed
It might be dedicated to the memory of John Hughes, but Anthony Burns' debut film "Skateland" owes a good deal to those more recent slices of teendom "Dazed and Confused" and "Adventureland" — movies that focus more on mood and texture and are less hungry than Hughes' were for laughs ...
Review: Ferrell's stretching exercise astringently entertaining
The alcoholic son of an alcoholic, sales manager Nick Porter was born in a Raymond Carver short story called "Why Don't You Dance?" published in the 1981 Carver collection "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love." The story, which takes place at a yard sale among one man's ...
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