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Movie Reviews by Peter Rainer - Page 100 of 129

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Review of The Lives of Others (2006)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 24 Oct 2008

The director is fortunate to have cast actors who fully embody their roles…

Review of Lucky Number Slevin (2006)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 22 Oct 2008

Hartnett has been stuck in the young-adult heartthrob mode for some time now, but this comic thriller may launch him into meatier fare…

Review of The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 Oct 2008

The honey runs thick in The Secret Life of Bees, and so does the treacle. The cloying dullness sets in early, although not from the first frame…

Review of What Just Happened (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 Oct 2008

This satire is a perfect sendup of Hollywood with a marvelous cast, including De Niro in his best performance in years…

Review of W. (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 19 Oct 2008

Stone may think he's made a movie about the toxicity of the Bush presidency, but what we have instead is a cautionary tale of a decidedly lower…

Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 17 Oct 2008

A considerable achievement even if, on balance, it's more of a Tim Burton phantasmagoria than a Sondheim fantasia…

Review of Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 17 Oct 2008

It's nice to watch a political movie that, for a change, isn't trying to save our souls…

Review of Waiting... (2005)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 17 Oct 2008

The young cast members, including Justin Long and Ryan Reynolds, are often spirited and funny, and restaurantgoers are left with a valuable lesson…

Review of Fred Claus (2007)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 15 Oct 2008

Few things are more dispiriting than a holiday movie straining to become a perennial. Such is the case with Fred Claus, an insipid Christmas comedy…

Review of 8 Mile (2002)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 15 Oct 2008

What it's really about is the euphoria that talent can bring to those who are possessed by it. That euphoria lights up the screen…

Review of Frontrunners (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 12 Oct 2008

Like all too many docs these days, it chronicles a contest while caricaturing the contestants…

Review of Religulous (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 Oct 2008

Was Maher afraid he might muddy his clownish jape if he actually brought into the mix a learned theologian…

Review of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 Oct 2008

The conceit here is that if a boy and a girl love the same music, that means they're in love. Who am I to argue with such poetic whimsy…

Review of Rachel Getting Married (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 05 Oct 2008

With a minimum of actorly fuss, Winger shows us the rage and hurt inside this overcontrolled woman…

Review of Breakfast on Pluto (2005)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 01 Oct 2008

Cillian Murphy plays a hyper-feminine transvestite who spends much of the movie traipsing about an increasingly violent landscape in search…

Review of Choke (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Sep 2008

Rockwell has an off-center charm and, as his gorgon mother, Anjelica Huston is more imposing than this movie deserves…

Review of Choke (1971)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Sep 2008

Rockwell has an off-center charm and, as his gorgon mother, Anjelica Huston is more imposing than this movie deserves…

Review of Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 28 Sep 2008

Director Stefan Forbes interviews a slew of victims and beneficiaries of the Atwater attack machine and, in the process, gives us an even-handed…

Review of Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 26 Sep 2008

Eastwood has made an honorable movie about honor, but the naivete of the conception - which some will call purity - keeps Flags at arm's length…

Review of The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)

By Peter Rainer (2,575) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 21 Sep 2008

The emotional resolutions aren't pat, exactly. But they're not messy either, and for material this inherently volatile, that seems like a cheat…

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