Miami Movie Reviews - Miami New Times

Redolent of Roman decadence and authority gone mad, the title Religulous rolls pleasingly off the tongue. But Bill Maher's one-man stand-up... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 02, 2008

Anne Hathaway Shines in Rachel Getting Married

Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered might not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 02, 2008

Shia LaBeouf Can't Save Tepid Eagle Eye

Director D.J. Caruso fancies himself a hipster Hitchcock, with Shia LaBeouf as his snarky Jimmy Stewart. Last year the duo remade Rear Window and... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 02, 2008

Sex Crime

Choke adaptation needs the Heimlich.

There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: September 25, 2008

Very Minor Miracle

No matter the runtime and budget, Spike Lee's WWII drama is an epic bore.

On some level, you've got to hand it to Spike Lee. There are probably less than a handful of directors working in Hollywood today who could put... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: September 25, 2008

The Family That Preys

Now playing.

"You're a woman scorned with no prenup. That's a recipe for good livin'" is just one of the zingers Kathy Bates gets to deliver as Charlotte... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: September 25, 2008

Our Friends and Neighbors

Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace.

Earlier this year, when I found myself assigned to jury duty on a drug-related trial at the Los Angeles Superior Court, our jury foreman turned... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: September 18, 2008

Righteous Kill

Now playing.

Where once the decline of Robert De Niro's and Al Pacino's prodigious talent inspired howls of anguish and impassioned critical essays, it's a... More>>

By Tim Grierson

Published: September 18, 2008

Intolerable Cruelty

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading.

Masters of the carefully crafted cheap shot, Joel and Ethan Coen have built a career on flippancy. Given their refusal to take anything seriously... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: September 11, 2008

Old Man Bebo

Bebo Valdés's story is familiar to fans of Cuban music: A great bandleader in the Forties and Fifties who created his own rhythm (in this... More>>

By P. Scott Cunningham

Published: September 11, 2008

In the Heat of the Knight

Summer '08: Batman saved the season, while a little Sex went a long way and the indies went south.

And so another summer movie season comes to an end, not with a bang but a whimper — what else to call four new releases (Babylon A.D.,... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: September 04, 2008

Disaster Movie

Now playing.

In the Adam Sandler vehicle Little Nicky, Hitler spends eternity in Hell in a frilly smock getting pineapples shoved up his butt. Compared to... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: September 04, 2008

Spy vs. Why

Logic goes out with the intrigue in ho-hum "thriller" Traitor.

Despite his reputation as the rarest of creatures — a Hollywood intellectual — new evidence suggests Steve Martin reads ... prepare... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: August 28, 2008

The Next Hit

Now playing.

This locally produced movie about Miami hip-hop includes everything you'd expect: pretty pictures, lots of violence, and good urban music.... More>>

Published: August 28, 2008

Not to Be

Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic.

In its final 10 minutes, Hamlet 2 is little more than chaos, noise, and nonsense, and those are 10 perfectly enjoyable minutes. It's hard to... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: August 21, 2008

Mirrors

Now playing.

Often kidded for the many times he bellows "Dammit!" at 11th-hour moments on 24, Kiefer Sutherland finally gets to show his range — and he... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: August 21, 2008

Apocalypse Whatever

Ben Stiller's Hollywood sendup lacks firepower.

Early buzz out of Hollywood pegged Tropic Thunder, directed and co-written by star Ben Stiller, as the end-all and be-all of movie-biz parodies... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: August 14, 2008

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Now Playing.

George Lucas, that greedy visionary, is now in the infomercial-manufacturing business — the pitchman forever selling rehashed product to... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: August 14, 2008

True Bromance

Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express.

On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: August 07, 2008

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Now playing.

Resist if you dare, and for as long as you must, but even the hoariest haters eventually succumbed to the girly, cottony charms of 2005's... More>>

By Michelle Orange

Published: August 07, 2008

Corpse Fried

The Mummy franchise has seen better days.

I was 13 when Stephen Sommers's 1999 remake-in-name-only of The Mummy came out — just about the ideal age. Sommers is definitely some kind... More>>

By Vadim Rizov

Published: July 31, 2008

Change You Can't Believe In

Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote.

Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it was. The... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: July 31, 2008

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

Now playing

The truth is still out there, like an unsold lawn chair at a garage sale, in this just plain lousy second big-screen outing for erstwhile FBI... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: July 31, 2008

Men Will Be Boys

With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.

I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: July 24, 2008

Space Chimps

Now playing.

Dad, which was your favorite part of Space Chimps?" the four-year-old asked the day after a media sneak peek. "Dunno, Harry. Probably the part... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: July 24, 2008

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