Author: Robert Levin

It’s possible to admire the grand, sweeping ambitions poured into the production of Agora without having much use for the movie itself. Alejandro Amenábar delves…

The weary Shrek franchise is such a relic that it took all the way until this third sequel for it to employ 3-D. In today’s…

If you get away from the tourist hotspots and luxury apartment buildings populated by the elite you’ll find that New York City is filled with…

The Joe Cocker song “Up Where We Belong” – not to mention thousands of other love ballads, sonnets and poems – says the same essential…

Zonad adopts an amusing, albeit thin, high-concept, string it along with energy and has the good sense to cease operations at the 70-minute mark. It’s…

The much anticipated omnibus adaptation of the New York Times bestseller Freakonomics serves its basic function well. Four short documentaries – connected by transitional segments…

There’s no greater anomaly in popular music than the Canadian power trio Rush. Members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart have reached the height…

In The Killer Inside Me, director Michael Winterbottom aims to create onscreen the rich, pulpy small-town ’50s southern atmosphere made famous by authors like Jim…

Get Low centers on death, regret and personal reparations, in a story set against the backdrop of the Depression-era South. Yet out of that miserable…