James McAvoy makes it his duty to voice any film animated in the UK
“The Last King of Scotland” (2006) made Scottish actor James McAvoy a film star, and “Wanted” (2008) made him a bankable Hollywood name. He does most of his work, these days, in American projects such...
View ArticleMovie Review: My Week With Marilyn
Michelle Williams doesn’t so much impersonate Marilyn Monroe as suggest her in the entertaining new bio-drama “My Week With Marilyn.” She doesn’t have Monroe’s overripe figure, Kewpie doll cheeks or...
View ArticleMovie Review: Hugo
Martin Scorsese’s “Hugo” is a children’s film for grownups — grownup film buffs. It’s a charming and quite gorgeous exercise in thew few corners of the medium where the Oscar-winning filmmaker has next...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Muppets
The big screen revival of The Muppets, cleverly titled “The Muppets,” is a generally charming exercise in nostalgia. The musical comedy whimsically and often cleverly revisits the characters, their...
View ArticleMovie Review: Arthur Christmas
“Arthur Christmas” is a spirited, comically chaotic and adorably anarchic addition to the world’s over-supply of holiday cartoons. It’s very British, in other words — from its producers (Aardman, the...
View ArticleMovie Review: The Descendants
In the Oscar-buzzed film of “The Descendants,” Alexander Payne turns his “Sideways” eye on Kaui Hart Hemmings’ novel about family dysfunction in Hawaii. It’s a lovely, heartfelt character study of...
View ArticleFassbender and McQueen — a team built on trust
Mick Jagger has his Keith Richards and Steven Tyler his Joe Perry. Their movie equivalent? Steve McQueen, the British artist turned filmmaker, and his muse, Michael Fassbender. “It really is like...
View ArticleMovie Review: Into the Abyss
The German filmmaker Werner Herzog has made a very long and fruitful career out of finding eerie beauty and menace in the oddest places. Nowhere is this more obvious than in his occasional...
View ArticleMovie Review: Shame
Eye-contact is how it begins — a shared glance on the subway, maybe followed by a smile but always cranked up from a glance to a penetrating stare. Brandon, played with a chilling allure by Michael...
View ArticleSteven Spielberg on ‘War Horse’
Steven Spielberg has made a pretty fair living over the decades making audiences cry. And the Oscar winning director of “E.T.,” “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan” isn’t immune to that...
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