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Ghost in the Shell
A review by Stephen Hunter for Baltimore Sun2017-03-24
Oshii is able to knit together action sequences with extraordinary power and conviction.... Ghost in the Shell is absolutely terrific.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
The Host
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2015-10-15
In "Jaws," you didn't know whether to laugh or to scream. In The Host, the yocks rarely mesh with the yucks.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Promises
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2015-09-29
Promises may want to unite the audience in humanitarian emotions, but it's more useful as a prod to examine what these children are learning from their schools, their leaders, and their media.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Calendar Girls
A review by Chris Kaltenbach for Baltimore Sun2015-09-25
A film as clever and embracingly ribald as this shouldn't have to resort to cliche in the end; director Nigel Cole should have kept his girls in Britain and kept the mood light.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Hidden
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2015-09-15
Cache is the feel-guilty movie of the new millennium.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Pinocchio
A review by Jay Boyar for Baltimore Sun2015-01-01
The bottom line is that the studio's marketing strategy is just a tad incomplete. Instead of hiding Pinocchio from critics, Miramax should have hidden it from everyone.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2014-09-26
The impact is hypnotic.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Girlhood
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2014-06-27
In an era of exploding documentary innovation, Girlhood simply follows unfamiliar characters down familiar paths. It's not a negligible experience, but it's not an eye-opener, either.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
The Net
A review by Stephen Hunter for Baltimore Sun2014-06-09
It's exciting and satisfying, even if the chief villain isn't terribly original and the chase scenes are overlong. Bullock is plucky and believable as an average person who must marshal her strength and smarts to get her life back.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Stay
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2014-03-21
In Stay, the director, Marc Forster, fresh from "Finding Neverland," turns Manhattan into a nightmarish dreamscape and his characters into self-destructive ghosts.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
I Am Divine
A review by Chris Kaltenbach for Baltimore Sun2013-10-28
This is a movie that's really about how much fun Glenn Milstead had being Divine, and how he — perhaps unexpectedly — found so many fans willing to go along for the ride. That's an American success story worth celebrating.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
The Notebook
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2013-07-03
To their credit, director Nick Cassavetes and screenwriter Jeremy Leven heighten the melodrama and seize on the most distinctive strokes of Nicholas Sparks' bland best seller.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Off the Map
A review by Chris Kaltenbach for Baltimore Sun2013-05-18
The people are just a little too calculatedly quirky in Off the Map, an otherwise engaging comedy.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Kika
A review by Stephen Hunter for Baltimore Sun2013-05-13
With Almodovar, things tend to happen fast, and "Kika" is all speed and no depth.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
For Your Consideration
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2013-01-28
Emily Dickinson wrote, "Hope is the thing with feathers." When Woody Allen published his second collection, he called it Without Feathers. Guest is as sharp and original as Allen, but he hasn't lost hope. For Your Consideration -- disillusioned but also fresh and ticklish -- is a thing with feathers, too.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
The Lookout
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2012-09-05
The way Frank structures and directs this film, it's too predictably "unpredictable."Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
White Noise
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2012-01-01
Dramatically, it's a ghoul's parade of grieving folk finding solace and then danger through a tenuous connection to the after-life.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Gerry
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2011-06-15
The desert is clean in Gerry, but it's also empty.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Crash
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2011-02-15
New York critics have anointed Crash in advance as the Second Coming, but it's just another over-ambitious first movie.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun -
Kandahar
A review by Michael Sragow for Baltimore Sun2010-02-04
What proves the validity of Kandahar is that, by the end, all these scenes are human ruins of the same nightmare world.Read entire review on Baltimore Sun
