Alice in Wonderland (2010)

This is a tipping point movie. Through some pretty good work on some pretty good films, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp were able to build a deep reservoir of goodwill that saw them through some less-than-spectacular collaborations.  But this film is more than a misfire.  Here they’ve crossed a line into a bizarre (not in [...]

Taken (2009) ★½

The Visitor (2008)

Doubt (2008)

On the surface, John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt”–adapted from his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play–seems to explore, with a reluctance to definitively reveal, whether or not a Catholic priest molests a boy from his parish.  The critics have already begun to weigh in, some of them panning the film on grounds that Shanley uses doubt as a [...]