Film - Short Subjectives
CL’s Short Reviews on Films that Played on Atlanta Screens over the years.
Short Subjectives July 01 2010 Short Subjectives
Short Subjectives June 24 2010 Short Subjectives
Short Subjectives June 11 2010 Short Subjectives
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THE A-TEAM 3 stars (PG-13) Four U.S. Army Rangers — Hannibal (Liam Neeson), Faceman (Bradley Cooper), Baracus (Quinton Rampage Jackson) and Murdock (District 9’s Sharlto Copley)who specialize in outlandish operations clear their names after being set up for murder and the theft of plates to make counterfeit $100 bills. Narc director Joe Carnahan frequently favors a fast...
Short Subjectives January 06 2010 Short Subjectives
??OPENING FRIDAYCRAZY ON THE OUTSIDE (PG-13) Tim Allen directs and stars in this comedy about a prison parolee who discovers the quirks of life “on the outside” in the company of his eccentric sister (Sigourney Weaver) and her friends.
DAYBREAKERS (R) See review.
THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS 2 stars (PG-13) See review.
LEAP YEAR (PG) Amy Adams plays a single woman with an elaborate...
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??CONTINUING??2012 2 stars (PG-13) Solar flares and Mayan mumbo jumbo spell a world-ending catastrophe, even for an upstanding White House science adviser (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a divorced novelist (John Cusack) and the U.S. president (Danny Glover). You can say what you want about director Roland Emmerich: The man’s the John Holmes of disaster porn and delivers jaw-dropping money shots of...
Short Subjectives December 23 2009 Short Subjectives
??OPENING WEDNESDAY??ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKUEL (PG) Here’s hoping the New Oxford Dictionary had time to add the word “squeakuel” to its 2010 edition. Jason Lee reprises his role as the human straight man to a trio of piercing-voiced mammals. The trailer hints that the follow-up will include girl chipmunk singers, too. Uh-oh.??OPENING FRIDAY??BROKEN EMBRACES 4 stars (R) See...
Short Subjectives December 16 2009 Short Subjectives
??OPENING FRIDAY??AVATAR (PG-13) See review.??DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? (PG-13) Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant play an estranged couple relocated from New York to small-town Wyoming as part of a witness-protection program. From the writer/director of Music and Lyrics, who also wrote the Miss Congeniality films. ??THE MAID (NR) See review.??DULY NOTED??BIZARRO SATURDAY MORNING In...
Short Subjectives December 09 2009 Short Subjectives
??OPENING FRIDAY??INVICTUS (PG-13) Clint Eastwood directs this combination of political biopic and sports drama as Morgan Freeman plays newly elected South African President Nelson Mandela, who hopes a rugby team (led by Matt Damon) will help bridge the country’s racial divides.??ME AND ORSON WELLES 4 stars (PG-13) See review.??THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (G) See review.??UP IN THE AIR 4 stars...
Short Subjectives December 02 2009 Short Subjectives
??OPENING FRIDAY??ARMORED (PG-13) Hungarian-American Nimród Antal, who directed the fascinating foreign film Kontroll, helms this heist thriller about security guards who decide to knock over one of their armored cars. The cast includes Matt Dillon, Jean Reno and Laurence Fishburne.??BROTHERS (R) After Sam, a Marine, goes missing in Afghanistan, his younger brother Tommy moves in to care for...