Movie Reviews

'Our Family Wedding' surpasses stereotype

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

One enters a movie like "Our Family Wedding" bracing for cheesiness. As a genre, wedding films are typically about as cloying as two-hours worth of kitten videos on YouTube. Add in the equally checkered history of stridently ethnic movies, and... Full story

'Green Zone' is a failure of intelligence

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

All the war-zone authenticity in the Arab world cannot salvage the silly Hollywood plot at the heart of "Green Zone," Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass' first collaboration outside the Jason Bourne realm. Their thriller about the futile search for... Full story

'Out of League' takes title too literally

By GLENN WHIPP, For The Associated Press

Remember the hoo-ha over whether Seth Rogen and Katherine Heigl made a believable couple in Judd Apatow's "Knocked Up"? The makers of "She's Out of My League" sure do. They've built an entire comedy from the premise, pairing string-bean Apatow... Full story

Pattinson still brooding in 'Remember Me'

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

In "Remember Me," Robert Pattinson has temporarily stepped away from "Twilight," apparently in search of his "Five Easy Pieces" or "Rebel Without a Cause." When Pattinson's character — a wayward, rebellious 21-year-old named Tyler Hawkins... Full story

'Brooklyn's Finest' is not so fine

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

Irony underlies the title of "Brooklyn's Finest," a drama about cops who are anything but fine at their jobs. And director Antoine Fuqua pounds that irony home with a sledgehammer. Fuqua rounded up a fine cast — Richard Gere, Don Cheadle,... Full story

'Alice' through a drearier looking glass

By JAKE COYLE, AP Entertainment Writer

In Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland," Alice has grown — not by "drink me" potion or "eat me" cake — into a 19-year-old girl. Working from Linda Woolverton's very Hollywood screenplay adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale,... Full story

'A Prophet' displays visionary talent

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

Jacques Audiard's "A Prophet" traces the evolution of an illiterate French-Arab inmate who uses his time well in prison, learning to read and write, studying economics, picking up a new language. Along the way, he applies his new skills and his... Full story

Racial drama 'Blood' recalls a torn South

By GLENN WHIPP, For The Associated Press

It is not surprising that Timothy Tyson's riveting, race-focused 2004 memoir "Blood Done Sign My Name" made it to the screen, although the man who brought it there might raise an eyebrow. The movie marks the directorial debut of Jeb Stuart, the... Full story

Polanski casts well in 'Ghost Writer'

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

If Roman Polanski has great insights on the notion of exile, he did not put them on-screen in "The Ghost Writer." What the director, a fugitive from America for decades and now under house arrest in Switzerland, did put on-screen is a faithful,... Full story

Weirdness rules Posey, Moore's 'Tears'

By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer

That independent-film specialty, the comic drama about dysfunctional family reunions, has come to this: Parker Posey and Demi Moore cleaning up after Rip Torn's poo. In "Happy Tears," Posey and Moore manage a handful of nice scenes capturing an... Full story

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