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Movie Reviews by Chris Packham - Page 7 of 8

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Review of The Guilt Trip (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Dec 2012

Pairing Rogen and Streisand turns out to be inspired…

Review of The Girl (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 18 Dec 2012

Hernandez is soulful and affecting ... and Cornish embodies Ashley's self-centered character with nuance and subtlety…

Review of Let Fury Have the Hour (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 11 Dec 2012

The film joyfully surveys the evolution of a politically informed artistic movement, set to a soundtrack that includes MC5, Rage Against the…

Review of The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Dec 2012

Burns's job as director is differentiating and spotlighting everyone in this large ensemble, a storytelling challenge to which he responds…

Review of Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 27 Nov 2012

Against the prevailing cheerlessness, these intensively choreographed fights, many shot in audacious, roving single takes, are like glimpses…

Review of Seeds of Resiliency (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Nov 2012

Nothing in the film is new or particularly revelatory, but it brings these individual firsthand stories to the table…

Review of Rise of the Guardians (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 20 Nov 2012

At times, it approaches some of Pixar's best…

Review of Price Check (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 13 Nov 2012

Mabius is understated and sympathetic as a guy who makes some dickish choices, and Susan, played by anyone else, might be a completely unrelatable…

Review of Lincoln (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

This Lincoln, stunningly portrayed by Spielberg and Day-Lewis, is real and relatable and so, so cool…

Review of Nature Calls (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 Nov 2012

The unmitigated disaster of the camping trip just stays disastrous, the story never really finding its way from adversity to heroic redemption…

Review of This Must Be the Place (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Nov 2012

Sorrentino's languorous photography, understated humor, and quiet but profound dramatic reveals coil together into something organic, whole,…

Review of My Worst Nightmare (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Oct 2012

Whether this is an argument for or against marriage probably depends on the viewer's own experience…

Review of Special Forces (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

For a while Degan's serious charisma also kind of makes Islamic extremist fundamentalism look cool and badass, which could have been hilariously…

Review of The Big Picture (2010)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 08 Oct 2012

For most of the film, Lartigau creates the tension of a Hitchcockian thriller solely through Paul's interior struggle…

Review of Frankenweenie (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

Frankenweenie, scripted by John August, and based on a screenplay by Lenny Ripps from Burton's original story, is tight and brief, hitting…

Review of The Oranges (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

The Oranges, an extremely dry comedy directed by Julian Farino, is kind of like a takedown of the suburbs written by the people who designed…

Review of Bel Borba Aqui (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

Now he's famous, and the production of the documentary Bel Borba Aqui, practically a montage of color, music, and Borba's constant laughter,…

Review of Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Oct 2012

These 2-D characters might as well be wearing T-shirts that say things like Predatory College Professor and Self-Obsessed Father on them…

Review of BearCity 2: The Proposal (2012)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 25 Sep 2012

The film is funny, weepy, and hairy all the way to the barrel-chested-and utterly predictable-end…

Review of Tales of the Night (2011)

By Chris Packham (159) for Village Voice (8,525) on 24 Sep 2012

The stories are quick, tiny surveys of a given culture's conventions told as monomythic, Joseph Campbell–ish pastiches and animated with…

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Chris Packham has written reviews for:

Village Voice (8,525)
Slant Magazine (8,298)
L.A. Weekly (3,142)

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