Name: moviejohn
Dateline: Hanover, NH
Weblog: www.moviejohn.com
Articles: 49
First Published: Saturday, August 25, 2007
Last Published: Sunday, July 20, 2008
Currently listing articles 49-1:
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Movie Review: The Dark Knight— A transcendent superhero movie and an ambitious marriage of allegorical artistry and pop entertainment.
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Movie Review: Wanted— A balls-to-the-walls action thrill ride - nothing more, nothing less.
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Movie Review: Get Smart— A disappointing TV adaptation with too much stock summer action and too little humor.
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Movie Review: WALL·E— Pixar now stakes its mark of animated splendor in the science fiction genre, bringing to center the crucial theme they have always hinted at.
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Movie Review: Kung Fu Panda— A fresh, skillful entertainment with a title that almost sells itself.
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Movie Review: The Happening— Not completely successful but still too unfairly judged by the Shyamalan scorners.
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Movie Review: The Visitor— A sensitive portrait of a man's reawakening in a politically unforgiving world.
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Movie Review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull— A disappointing mooch off the famous Indy franchise rather than a revisit.
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Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian— C.S. Lewis' imagination translates well into this second equally successful trip into Narnia.
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Movie Review: Redbelt— A typically compelling Mamet con game set in the martial arts world, up until its all too generic conclusion.
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Movie Review: Iron Man Is Pretty Close to Brilliance— A lesser known superhero is lesser known no more.
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Movie Review: Forgetting Sarah Marshall— The latest Judd Apatow comedy hearkens back to a more classical comedy premise and gets fresher, funnier jokes.
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Movie Review: Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day— ... a breezy screwball comedy can be made without being a remake or depending on obvious references to other movies of the genre.
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Movie Review: Doomsday— I am almost tempted just to make a checklist of all the steals this film makes from other far superior post-apocalyptic classics.
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Movie Review: In Bruges— A fascinating crime thriller that hits the sweet spot where one does not know whether to laugh or recoil in shock.
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Reactions to Oscars 2008— A recap of one of the most satisfying Oscars in years.
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2008 Academy Awards: My Predictions
— It looks like a real show will finally go on. How well can we predict it?
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My Reactions to the Oscar Nominations— Reactions to the Oscar nominations, surprises and all.
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My Predictions for the 2008 Oscar Nominations— Predictions for a most unpredictable year.
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Movie Review: Cloverfield— Cloverfield successfully goes beyond being just a clever gimmick and works well as a genuine thrill ride.
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Movie Review: Michael Clayton— An old-fashioned throwback to the '70s conspiracy thrillers.
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Movie Review: Superbad— The Apatow comedy crew descends further into sophomoric vulgarity and squanders whatever drama they attempt to explore.
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Movie Review: The Bucket List— It could have been a richer meditation on life, but it ends up trading in on Nicholson’s and Freeman’s personas rather than rejuvenating them.
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The Best and Worst Movies of 2007— A reflection on the best and worst movies of the year.
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Movie Review: Atonement— Atonement is period filmmaking at its finest and most modern.
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Movie Review: The Great Debaters— This film is, in many ways, the “sports movie” I have been waiting to see.
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Movie Review: Juno— Starts off with a sputter but gradually picks up steam to close in a thunderous finish.
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Movie Review: Charlie Wilson's War— A breezy and intelligent political comedy about a man unrecognized for his efforts in bringing down the Soviets.
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Christmas Movie Recommendations— A highlight of the perennial Christmas classics and clunkers.
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Movie Review: August Rush— August Rush is a real fairy tale for music lovers.
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Movie Review: The Brave One— Even with Jodie Foster's performance, the movie loses its worth by cowering from showing the real social consequences and issues behind vigilance.
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Movie Review: Paris, je t'aime— A cinematic buffet of love and its bittersweet permutations set within a dreamy travelogue of its most representative city...
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Movie Review: I Am Legend— Comparable to Tom Hanks in Cast Away, Will Smith proves that is one of the very few real movie stars around.
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Movie Review: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead— A fascinating cross-pollination of the classical and the experimental.
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Movie Review: Dan in Real Life— A movie that sets being humanly funny as a challenge and meets it with warmth and modesty.
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Movie Review: No Country for Old Men— A chilling study of how ordinary people deal with the idea that some people are just innately, implacably evil.
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Movie Review: Enchanted— Enchanted is like a grand, live-wire musical symphony of all the Disney fairy tales we all grew up loving.
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Movie Review: Reign Over Me— A good acting showcase for Don Cheadle and particularly Adam Sandler.
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Movie Review: Lars and the Real Girl— One of the most poignant portraits of loneliness I’ve ever seen.
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Movie Review: The Shawshank Redemption— Another look at one of the most beloved masterpieces of our time.
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Movie Review: In the Valley of Elah— Worth seeing if only for Tommy Lee Jones' magnificent performance.
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Movie Review: Eastern Promises— David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises is like a photo-negative of The Godfather.
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Movie Review: 3:10 to Yuma— James Mangold’s 3:10 to Yuma is a masterful revisionist update of the classic western in the best sense of the term.
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Movie Review: Stardust— It’s been a while since a real fairytale has hit theaters and Stardust is a creatively crazy one.
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Movie Review: Zodiac— A thoroughly meticulous film that captures all of the minutiae of investigative police work, warts and all.
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Movie Review: Mr. Bean's Holiday— Though Mr. Bean’s Holiday, his second cinematic outing is not quite successful as a movie, it is certainly a step up from the first film.
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Movie Review: Army of Shadows— In a medium that usually communicates through visceral images and sensations, Army of Shadows is an interior masterpiece.
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Movie Review: Black Sheep— You think “killer sheep” sounds funny? Think about it for ten seconds. There, you’ve watched Black Sheep and it didn't cost you a thing.
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Movie Review: Little Manhattan— Puppy love is a concept that adults and teenagers would brush aside as immature and inconsequential...
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