An American original that sets the bar pretty high for teen comedies in 2010.
YOUTH IN REVOLT is a buoyant youth picture that smells like teen spirit. For that, we can thank the creative team behind the movie, who clearly had the right intentions (and the credentials to back them up) in bringing C.D. Payne’s cult novel to the screen. Director Miguel Arteta obviously has an affinity for outsiders (see CHUCK & BUCK and THE ...
Review by: MiamiMovieCritic
Added: 3 years ago
The weirdest, funniest movie in the festival.
Symbol is Japanese comic legend Hitoshi Matsumoto’s second feature, the follow up to his lovably weird, boldly alienating and completely hilarious Dai Nipponjin (aka Big Man Japan, 2007). Two seemingly unrelated stories play in parallel in the film. In one, Mexican luchador Escargot Man must face the seemingly insurmountably strong and youthful ...
Review by: thesubstream
Added: 3 years ago
Crazy stop motion.
Writer-director Adam Eliot’s Mary and Max chronicles the 20-year relationship between the shy and socially inept Mary Daisy Dinkle and the manic-depressive, obese Asperger-Syndrome-suffering Max Jerry Horowitz. One day Mary (voiced by Toni Collette), a friendless, ignored and neglected 8 year-old girl living in the town of Mount Waverly, Australia ...
Review by: thesubstream
Added: 3 years ago
An easy choice, if you're trying to figure out what to see this weekend.
As a fan of movie theatres and of the going to of them to see awesome movies, the holidays should, If I buy into the enormous marketing budgets of all the big distribution companies, be my favourite time of year. They seem to hold back all the cool movies for the days when the snow starts to fall. Why? Why now? Well, as it's been in the past and as ...
Review by: thesubstream
Added: 3 years ago
Consistently and delightfully entertaining.
"If God was a DJ, he'd be on this boat," declares one of the DJs aboard a boat called Radio Rock. Permanently stationed off the coast of Britain in 1966, the very dilapidated, old fishing boat provides the homeland their daily (and nightly) dose of rock 'n roll. Thanks to tight control by the government, the few stations on the air are not ...
Review by: SteveRhodes
Added: 4 years ago
A solid performance in an entertaining movie.
As daring as she is petite, Babe Ruthless of "The Hurl Scouts" zips through her burlier competition in the skating rink. She may be the smallest person on her women's roller derby team, but she can really take a licking and keep on ticking. Off the court, Babe is known as Bliss Cavendar, a high school senior in Bodeen, a tiny town in Texas. ...
Review by: SteveRhodes
Added: 4 years ago
Terrific entertainment.
“Four white guys getting together on a weekday – that’s not a business meeting, it’s a crime scene.” -The Informant! On the surface, The Informant! shouldn’t be a fun movie to watch. It’s about one of the 21st century’s most reliable bad actors: corporate greedheads who think they’re above the law. (In most cases, they’re probably right.) Its ...
Review by: MiamiMovieCritic
Added: 4 years ago
The latest film by the quintessential indie writer and director Henry Jaglom.
"You come from a long line of narcissists," Eleanor (Victoria Tennant) tells her daughter Irene (Tanna Frederick). In IRENE IN TIME, the latest film by the quintessential indie writer and director Henry Jaglom, the narcissist comment is both dead-on accurate and probably the chief reason why this film is likely to divide audiences, as it did ours. ...
Review by: SteveRhodes
Added: 4 years ago
A delicious concoction of two delectable stories.
JULIE & JULIA is a delicious concoction of two delectable stories, but the surprise is that Amy Adams sweetly understated performance goes down much easier than Meryl Streep's showy shtick, which too often becomes almost indigestibly larger than life. Set in both early 1950s France and in 2002 Queens, the movie cuts between the two environments, ...
Review by: SteveRhodes
Added: 4 years ago
One of the best -- and quite possible the best -- film of the year.
(500) DAYS OF SUMMER is so absolutely adorable that, as the ending credits were rolling, I had the overwhelming urge to wrap my arms around the movie and never let it go. It was so precious and utterly enjoyable that I wish its fast 96 minutes had been 500. I could never get enough of this delightful tale. When the DVD comes out, I hope it's chock ...
Review by: SteveRhodes
Added: 4 years ago
