Author: Robert Levin

Frozen co-opts a straightforward genre template, shepherds it through some tense moments and arrives at an unexpected place. Open Water on a ski lift, it’s…

One of the great accomplishments of the Sundance Film Festival has been its traditional championing of movies that take guts to make, that come replete…

The feature filmmaking debut of fashion designer Tom Ford, A Single Man often resembles a magazine photo spread sprung to life. A collection of meticulously…

Quite the reputation precedes Crazy Heart, which Fox Searchlight bumped from a spring release to the heart of awards season. However, those expectations – an…

You won’t find Broken Lizard on many of the ubiquitous decade wrap-ups that have begun to permeate the blogosphere, but in Super Troopers and Beerfest…

Once upon a time, a short time ago, a reliable constant linked one summer movie season to the next: The presence of a cel animated…

If there were ever a milieu made for Jim Sheridan, a military town amid the current war in Iraq is it. Throughout his prestigious career,…

Most movies exist in a sort of cultural vacuum, too addicted to rehashing genre conventions to explore the realities of the contemporary world outside the…

Richard Linklater returns to the big screen after a three year absence with Me and Orson Welles, a jazzy backstage coming of age picture. It’s…