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Review of Up (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 28 May 2009

[A] kid's adventure yarn embedded in a grownup tale about grief and regret, purposes lost and rediscovered…

Review of Terminator Salvation (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 21 May 2009

Intensity need not be the enemy of personality, but in Bale's work it too often has been…

Review of Star Trek (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 07 May 2009

In his daft, dizzy reinvention of a moribund franchise, Abrams has found a way to be referential without being reverential, to conjure nostalgia…

Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 30 Apr 2009

Though Jackman is capable, as always, in the title role, there's no real weight to his travails, which play more as exposition than tragedy…

Review of The Soloist (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 23 Apr 2009

[Director Joe Wright's] treatment of the material is so literal that at times the film seems like a syllabus for Remedial Cinematic Technique 101…

Review of Adventureland (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 02 Apr 2009

One of Mottola's best jokes involves Falco's Rock Me Amadeus…

Review of The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 27 Mar 2009

[W]hite people haven't learned much in the quarter-century since Eddie Murphy's classic disquisition on The Amityville Horror…

Review of Monsters vs Aliens (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 27 Mar 2009

At the altar... Susan sprouts to just under 50 feet tall, taking out the church roof and steeple in the process…

Review of Two Lovers (1928)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 27 Feb 2009

[A] film full of simple scenes brimming with unspoken complications…

Review of Two Lovers (2008)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 27 Feb 2009

[A] film full of simple scenes brimming with unspoken complications…

Review of Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Feb 2009

[T]his adaptation is really just about buying the 'brand,' and--like the retailers in the film--selling America something it already had…

Review of The International Player (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Feb 2009

It's betwixt and between, neither smart and understated enough to be le Carre-like nor stylish and energetic enough to be Bond-Bournian…

Review of The International (2009)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 14 Feb 2009

It's betwixt and between, neither smart and understated enough to be le Carre-like nor stylish and energetic enough to be Bond-Bournian…

Review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 25 Dec 2008

Benjamin Button is a film of mood, not motion. At its best, it is evocative and affecting; at its worst, an exercise in sentimental portraiture…

Review of The Wrestler (1971)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 25 Dec 2008

Rourke, in a role that could have invited outsized characterization, instead offers modesty and understatement…

Review of Valkyrie (2008)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 25 Dec 2008

The movie... fails by the standards of $100 million Hollywood star action vehicles, and by the standards of World War II Oscar-bait epics…

Review of The Wrestler (2008)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 25 Dec 2008

Rourke, in a role that could have invited outsized characterization, instead offers modesty and understatement…

Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 25 Dec 2008

Rourke, in a role that could have invited outsized characterization, instead offers modesty and understatement…

Review of Seven Pounds (2008)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 19 Dec 2008

[A] dour, morally beclouded film that confuses generosity and grief, self-abnegation and self-annihilation…

Review of Frost/Nixon (2008)

By Christopher Orr (399) for The New Republic (897) on 12 Dec 2008

This is the irony of Frost/Nixon: Though it chronicles the moment when (in theory) the 37th president of the United States was cut down to…

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