Change my location 
Examiner Movie Reviews
Review: Streep saves ‘Mamma Mia!’
- In the dippy warp of anti-renaissance that was the 1970s, ABBA thrived, and, via fare such as “Mamma Mia!” — a new movie based on the play — the defunct pop supergroup continues to unleash its too-catchy songs on the world. Shift your mind-set into fluff mode, and this film should mildly satisfy. But an unoriginal, uneven presentation of the songbook and the sunshine hampers things considerably.
Review: A thrilling ‘Dark Knight’
- Even if “The Dark Knight” didn’t represent Heath Ledger’s swan song, it would mark a high point in the late actor’s career. Ledger’s accent has sometimes sounded geographically challenged when he’s been asked to abandon his native Australian one, but here he reinvents himself entirely, trading in his authoritative baritone for a nasal snarl worthy of a sadistic jester.
- Even if “The Dark Knight” didn’t represent Heath Ledger’s swan song, it would mark a high point in the late actor’s career. Ledger’s accent has sometimes sounded geographically challenged when he’s been asked to abandon his native Australian one, but here he reinvents himself entirely, trading in his authoritative baritone for a nasal snarl worthy of a sadistic jester.
Review: A taste of modern immaturity
- Whether due to a fluke or a flair on the part of its creator, “The Wackness” is a surprisingly enjoyable comedy from the generally rusty spout devoted to the coming-of-age story. There is little that is extraordinary in this boy-meets-world indie, but the film combines and seasons its stock ingredients winningly.
Review: For brazen Hellboy, it’s not easy being red
- Life is never easy for the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense’s human minions.
Review: A profile of a ‘Gonzo’ guy
- A conventional filmmaker, Alex Gibney, salutes one of literature’s legendary rebels, Hunter S. Thompson, in the documentary “Gonzo,” and this matching indeed yields no revelations about its indomitable, outrageous, iconoclastic, substance-consuming, gun-loving subject.
- A conventional filmmaker, Alex Gibney, salutes one of literature’s legendary rebels, Hunter S. Thompson, in the documentary “Gonzo,” and this matching indeed yields no revelations about its indomitable, outrageous, iconoclastic, substance-consuming, gun-loving subject.
Review: An odd kind of hero
- I’d like to see a sequel to “Hancock.” Here’s a movie filled with bright ideas, crammed uncomfortably into a story burdened by confusing and often contradictory exposition. It begins as a comedy and ends rather unexpectedly with a flourish of melodrama, but it’s never dull.
- I’d like to see a sequel to “Hancock.” Here’s a movie filled with bright ideas, crammed uncomfortably into a story burdened by confusing and often contradictory exposition. It begins as a comedy and ends rather unexpectedly with a flourish of melodrama, but it’s never dull.
Review: ‘WALL-E’ is Pixar perfect
- What a wonderful world
- What a wonderful world
Review: It’s all about evil
- With gothic tones prevailing and schlock genes raging, Dario Argento is back, and the horror showman delivers considerable vim and viscera in his latest gorefest, “The Mother of Tears.” But the film’s distinguishing qualities end there.
- With gothic tones prevailing and schlock genes raging, Dario Argento is back, and the horror showman delivers considerable vim and viscera in his latest gorefest, “The Mother of Tears.” But the film’s distinguishing qualities end there.
Review: ‘Hulk’ isn’t incredible
- If French director Louis Leterrier’s goal in rebooting the “Hulk” saga for the big screen was to distance Marvel’s franchise from Ang Lee’s brooding 2003 deconstruction of the not-so-jolly green giant, you’d have to consider “The Incredible Hulk” a rousing success: While Lee incurred the wrath of comic-book disciples with his thoughtful character study, Leterrier and screenwriter Zak Penn dispense with the angst and focus on the smash.
- If French director Louis Leterrier’s goal in rebooting the “Hulk” saga for the big screen was to distance Marvel’s franchise from Ang Lee’s brooding 2003 deconstruction of the not-so-jolly green giant, you’d have to consider “The Incredible Hulk” a rousing success: While Lee incurred the wrath of comic-book disciples with his thoughtful character study, Leterrier and screenwriter Zak Penn dispense with the angst and focus on the smash.
‘The Happening’ really isn’t
- It’s an inconvenient truth: That “Sixth Sense” guy no longer makes good movies.
It’s not ‘Incredible’ but it’s pretty good
- It’s now titled “The Incredible Hulk.” But is it incredible?
Review: Not much ‘Happening’
- Displaying the distinctiveness but not the profundity that he patently aims for, M. Night Shyamalan is back with another eerie thriller, “The Happening.” Evolving as a filmmaker, the “Sixth Sense” writer-director avoids gimmicks and plot twists in this doomsday drama starring Mark Wahlberg and the Pennsylvania wind.
- Displaying the distinctiveness but not the profundity that he patently aims for, M. Night Shyamalan is back with another eerie thriller, “The Happening.” Evolving as a filmmaker, the “Sixth Sense” writer-director avoids gimmicks and plot twists in this doomsday drama starring Mark Wahlberg and the Pennsylvania wind.