A shameless love letter to a bygone era of cinema, but it leverages that nostalgia to hide a tragic lesson about life and love.

Self-reflexivity doesn’t in and of itself redeem a man who isn’t so much irrational as just plain old insufferable.

Cameron Crowe is an unfortunate example of a director who triumphed young and now resorts to shortcuts and rehashes of his earlier work.

[xrr rating=1.75/5]Around the turn of the century, three Mexican filmmakers made cinematic waves with three very exciting indie films. Alfonso Cuarón, who directed the tragi-comedy Y Tu Mamá También would go on to direct a Harry Potter picture and two well-regarded sci-fi movies. Guillermo del Toro, who released his masterful Spanish Civil War ghost story, The Devil’s Backbone, hit critical …

[xrr rating=2.25/5]He continues to cycle through genres, hopscotch the globe and alternate between comedy and tragedy. But at this point, Woody Allen has few surprises left. Forty years into a solid career, the director’s fondness for repetition is as established as his prevailing philosophy of a beautiful, serendipitous world dangling precipitously over an unavoidable abyss, in which love is either …

[xrr rating=3.0/5]Marvel Comics taught me an invaluable lesson about economics when I was a growing up. In junior high school, my friends and I would take a weekly trip to the comic book shop, grabbing between three to 10 publications on each visit. Sure, we wanted to know what was going to happen to our heroes, especially since the writers …

[xrr rating=3.0/5]The bar for animated movies has been raised so high in recent years that it’s difficult not to be disappointed by even the average entry. Movies like Toy Story 3 and WALL-E have so far advanced both the storytelling possibilities and visual technology of their genre that even a slightly sub-par animated children’s movie can seem worse than it …