Movie Reviews Published by The New Republic - Page 32 of 45

621-640 of 897 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Amistad (1997)

By Sean Wilentz (1) for The New Republic (897) on 22 Apr 2009

Dwarfed by the enormity of what it means to illustrate, the diffuse Amistad divides its energies among many concerns: the pain and strangeness…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

Review of Everlasting Moments (2008)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 19 Mar 2009

Troell's screenplay, as has often been the case with him, exists for the fullness of its texture, not for dramatic growth and resolution…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

Review of In the Name of the Father (1993)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 15 Feb 2009

Though the facts have been manipulated in the interests of drama--Gerry and Giuseppe were never imprisoned together, etc.--this has been done…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

Review of The Quiet American (2002)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 07 Feb 2009

As is frequently the case when there is public fuss about a film or play, the work itself is not very good…

Read Review

Review of Melinda and Melinda (2004)

By Stanley Kauffmann (447) for The New Republic (897) on 05 Jan 2009

The grave story is leaden, the comic story isn't funny, and the comparison--the rivalry--between the two modes is never crystallized…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

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…

Read Review

Page 32 of 45

The New Republic features reviews by:

Top publishers this month:

Popular Movies Right Now

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

No Hard Feelings

2023

65%90 Reviews

Hillbilly Elegy

2020

61%141 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Midsommar

2019

69%207 Reviews

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

2014

79%1,167 Reviews

Dune

2021

77%276 Reviews

War for the Planet of the Apes

2017

78%1,656 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

71%170 Reviews

Terrifier 2

2022

65%48 Reviews