Righteous Kill
At last, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star in a film together. Too bad it’s a fairly run-of-the-mill cop drama with an ending you’ll see coming from miles away.
At last, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino star in a film together. Too bad it’s a fairly run-of-the-mill cop drama with an ending you’ll see coming from miles away.
Joe picks his ten most anticipated films of the Fall 2008 movie season.
Paul W. S. Anderson’s noisy, nonsensical remake fails to hold together even in its own paper-thin world.
Sincere, relentlessly somber parable about a severely depressed man whose self-imposed suburban exile is upended by a familiarly-shaped stain on his wall.
The degeneration of the “Star Wars” saga continues unabated with this latest, most kid-friendly Lucas-produced assault on the memory of the once-beloved franchise.
Woody Allen’s breezy comic fable is his most effortless and insightful in years – and nothing short of a love letter to love itself, in all its maddening glory.
Fans of the TV show may enjoy seeing Mulder and Scully back in action, but there’s little in this run-of-the-mill mystery to attract the uninitiated.
Modest thriller set aboard the titular train plays like low-suspense Hitchcock until sadly, in the last act, it derails.
Freed from the confines of an origin story, director Christopher Nolan lets loose with an intense, challenging, flawed and, yes, dark vision of Gotham under siege, featuring an unforgettable final performance by Heath Ledger as the clown prince of crime.
Visually stunning comic book sequel from the endlessly inventive Guillermo del Toro amounts to little more than a noisy mess. But it sure looks pretty along the way.
| ★★★★★ | Perfection |
| ★★★★☆ | Outstanding |
| ★★★☆★☆ | Excellent |
| ★★★☆☆ | Very good |
| ★★☆★☆☆ | Good |
| ★★☆☆☆ | OK |
| ★☆★☆☆☆ | Pretty Bad |
| ★☆☆☆☆ | Poor |
| ☆★☆☆☆☆ | Blech! |
| No Stars | Fail! |