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Review: Machine Gun Preacher

White-savior storyline
Jesus does funny things to people: one day you're sitting on a toilet shooting heroin; the next you're building an orphanage in war-torn southern Sudan.
By ANN LEWINSON | September 27, 2011

Game Changer

After decades of lackluster releases, the video-game-turned-film genre may have finally found its royalty
For the worse part of two decades, Hollywood has been trying to discover the formula for successfully adapting video games to the big screen.
By BRETT MICHEL | June 04, 2010

Voodoo economics

What vampire and zombie movies can tell us about the future of capitalism
To paraphrase The Communist Manifesto , a specter is haunting Hollywood. Actually, two of them: zombies and vampires. The undead.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 21, 2010

Review: The Back-Up Plan

It's laughing all the way to the sperm bank
As a pregnant single woman, Jennifer Lopez glows spectacularly. Director Alan Poul’s bland baby comedy, however, appears to have been a light labor.
By ALICIA POTTER | April 28, 2010

Review: How To Train Your Dragon

Also better than Avatar
Animation directors Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders have fashioned a family entertainment that functions as a copy of James Cameron’s most successful film of all time.
By BRETT MICHEL | February 24, 2011

Review: The Bounty Hunter

Dreadful, handcuffed to derivative
A bounty hunter chasing down Uncle Sam on the Fourth of July?
By BRETT MICHEL | March 23, 2010

Silly season

Spring pimps for summer
Now that the Oscars are over, let's get dumb.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 09, 2010

Lite at the end of the tunnel?

Fun and games in post-apocalyptic Hollywood
If you had enough of the end of the world with 2012 , you might be relieved when it comes to 2010.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 04, 2010

Review: Law Abiding Citizen

Kind of fun, if you can ignore its politics
If a thousand BostonHerald.com commenters chained to a thousand typewriters produced a movie script, it would probably read an awful lot like F. Gary Gray’s vigilante-revenge thriller.
By SHAULA CLARK | October 16, 2009

Review: Gamer

It's a bit tough to swallow
This film from Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor features two fictional games: Society and Slayers , and both involve the mind control of volunteers by gamers who pay to play.
By MADDY MYERS | September 09, 2009

Review: The Ugly Truth

Not so much ugly as bland
The biting revelation promised by the title of Robert Luketic's fluff never bares its teeth.
By TOM MEEK | July 22, 2009

RocknRolla

Plot holes spackled over with slick visual wizardry
Wilkinson and Butler put in game performances, and the rest of the eclectic ensemble perform with gusto.
By TOM MEEK | November 06, 2008

Nim's Island

Ubiquitous Abigail Breslin in a mildly diverting adventure
Nim is home-schooled, her covert classroom an uncharted isle she inhabits with her scientist father, Jack.
By BRETT MICHEL | April 09, 2008

P.S. I Love You

A middling effort for Hilary Swank
Gerry is the perfect dead man, showing up shirtless à la Ghost or in stagy flashbacks.
By ALICIA POTTER | December 19, 2007

Trouble at the top

The Walter Reed fiasco is a national disgrace
The back of our limo has one of those yellow ribbon decals that say “Support Our Troops” — just above the “Impeach Bush” sticker.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | March 14, 2007

300

So much testosterone...
Outside a Chippendale show you’ll never see this many half-clad beefcakes in a single gander.
By TOM MEEK | March 06, 2007

Fractured fairy tales

Fantasy and reality compete for the box office in 2007
Times are tough when the Dream Factory has a better grip on what’s going on than the people in Washington.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 28, 2006

Beowulf & Grendel

Beguiles, thanks largely to the sparse Icelandic landscape
Icelandic director Sturla Gunnarsson treats the Old English epic about a foreign warrior enlisted by a broken Dane king to rid the land of a scourge with both respect and irreverence. Watch the trailer for Beowulf & Grendel
By TOM MEEK | August 09, 2006