Movie Reviews by Alissa Wilkinson - Page 25 of 25

481-499 of 499 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Shrek Forever After (2010)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 10 Jun 2010

The key, as Fiona points out, is to know when you have everything, and be grateful. It's a worthy conclusion to the tale…

Read Review

Review of The Joneses (2010)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 06 May 2010

This cautionary tale depicts consumers who believe they deserve stuff, whether or not they can pay for it…

Read Review

Review of Oh, My God! (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 30 Nov 2009

There's nothing new unearthed in this film…

Read Review

Review of Oh My God (2009)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 30 Nov 2009

There's nothing new unearthed in this film…

Read Review

Review of New York, I Love You (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 31 Oct 2009

While some of the segments are well constructed, the overall quality is simply uneven, and the transitions between segments sometimes verge…

Read Review

Review of Cold Souls (2009)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 06 Aug 2009

While Cold Souls doesn't answer any of the questions it raises, it does provide a thought-provoking narrative framework from which to begin…

Read Review

Review of The Great Buck Howard (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 23 Mar 2009

Light, witty, and occasionally thoughtful, The Great Buck Howard is a good Saturday-afternoon popcorn flick for teens and adults…

Read Review

Review of Waltz with Bashir (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 09 Jan 2009

Waltz With Bashir will stretch your ideas about the possibilities of films to confront history truthfully, and in particular, animation as…

Read Review

Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 23 Dec 2008

Tour de force may be a cliched reviewer's phrase for performances during Oscar season, but it's the only one that can be applied to Rourke here…

Read Review

Review of The Wrestler (1971)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 23 Dec 2008

Tour de force may be a cliched reviewer's phrase for performances during Oscar season, but it's the only one that can be applied to Rourke here…

Read Review

Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 23 Dec 2008

Tour de force may be a cliched reviewer's phrase for performances during Oscar season, but it's the only one that can be applied to Rourke here…

Read Review

Review of Doubt (2003)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 16 Dec 2008

Doubt brings assumptions about people and circumstances to the surface, and then challenges those assumptions with uncertainty and, yes, doubt…

Read Review

Review of Doubt (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 16 Dec 2008

Doubt brings assumptions about people and circumstances to the surface, and then challenges those assumptions with uncertainty and, yes, doubt…

Read Review

Review of Doubt (2009)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 16 Dec 2008

Doubt brings assumptions about people and circumstances to the surface, and then challenges those assumptions with uncertainty and, yes, doubt…

Read Review

Review of Synecdoche, New York (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 23 Oct 2008

A brilliant, gut-wrenching plunge into the painful work of facing the decisions we make and choosing to either continue onward, or live in regret…

Read Review

Review of What Just Happened (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 16 Oct 2008

Though the movie is darkly funny, most people outside the movie business won't find themselves laughing too much…

Read Review

Review of Rachel Getting Married (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 02 Oct 2008

Throbs with life from title to credits, employing perhaps the most authentic characters you'll see on screen this year…

Read Review

Review of Brideshead Revisited (2008)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Christianity Today (953) on 28 Sep 2008

Though a story of the disappearing tradition of aristocracy, Brideshead Revisited is, at its core, a tale of the outworking of God's grace…

Read Review

Review of Woodstock (1970)

By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 23 Aug 1999

Terrific concert documentary...The film that resulted — a roughly though not strictly chronological document of the much-publicized event…

Read Review

Page 25 of 25

Alissa Wilkinson has written reviews for:

Alissa Wilkinson is connected to:

Popular Movies Right Now

Blade Runner 2049

2017

80%2,332 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Top Gun: Maverick

2022

82%272 Reviews

Spider-Man: No Way Home

2021

79%458 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

Alien: Covenant

2017

61%1,909 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Gone Girl

2014

81%1,229 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

The Red Pill

2016

77%293 Reviews

Zombie A-Hole

2012

47%1 Review

Hemlock

2000

56%2 Reviews

Fender Bender

2016

48%12 Reviews

Apache Warrior

2017

66%2 Reviews

Source Code

2011

76%1,085 Reviews

Fallen

2017

64%8 Reviews

Tempted

2001

42%4 Reviews

A Hard Day

2014

74%29 Reviews

My Toxic Backyard

2013

95%5 Reviews