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Brad Pitt drops by 12 Years a Slaveafter a barnraising on the Witness set From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine: New Movie, Same Old Skin Game 12 Years a Slave—a biopic about Solomon...

From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine: The exuberant 127 Hours, director Danny Boyle’s first movie since winning the Best Picture Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire, is surprisingly comparable...

From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine: The last thing I had expected of Dinesh D’Souza’s first Michael Moore-type political documentary, 2016: Obama’s America, was that it...

A Most Violent YearWhiplash “A Most Violent Year” stars Oscar Isaac as, pretty much, a brooding Michael Corleone trying to go straight in the heating oil business in New York’s outer...

From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine: The Iranian film A Separation, a domestic drama-turned-courtroom mystery, is among the most acclaimed of recent movies. It won a host of film festival...

American Outlaws.American OutlawsTigerland Having just watched and read “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” I thought it time to post on the web my August 2001 review...

MaestroMeet John Doe Andrew and Leslie Cockburn have produced the best movie of the year. American Casino tells the story of the financial crisis, which started with the meltdown in subprime lending and...

Canadian Caper Ben Affleck has made himself into a brand name over the last half decade for directing well-made suspense movies for intelligent grown-ups: Gone Baby Gone, The Town, and now Argo. They’re...

Lance Arrival is a girl sci-fi movie in the tradition of Jody Foster’s Contact. Amy Adams plays a linguist (or some other kind of language-related academic) with a sad back story much like Sandra...

From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine: Atlas Shrugged: Part I is the most universally despised movie of 2011, but I liked it. Critics hate this adaptation of Ayn Rand’s 1957 cult novel...

Be Kind RewindApple ProductsBarack ObamaMichel GondryScienceBe Kind Rewind.Be Kind RewindScience.GhostbustersScienceEternal SunshineRewind Here’s my American Conservative review from February of...

BirdmanAll About EveKiss Me KateAll That JazzShow BoatCabaretThe ProducersNoises OffMoulin RougeThe Real ThingThe Real Inspector Hound.GravityThe Avengers As I wrote on January 15: I saw “Birdman”...

The Sicario/Arrival director’s sequel to Blade Runner, which was set in an Asian-overrun Los Angeles in 2019, looks like La La Land the Sci-Fi Movie: in the future, apparently, white people will...

From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine: Blue Valentine, a superbly acted indie drama about a middle-class nurse falling out of love with her working-class house-painter husband, is both a timeless...

BoratFray From my upcoming review in The American Conservative: “Borat,” we are advised by film critics, is an Important Message Movie because it portrays Kazakhs...

Brave Not “Brave,” but close enough Brave, the latest Pixar animated kids’ movie, is okay, but doesn’t stand up to the Northern California movie studio’s long winning streak...

Brideshead RevisitedMatch PointBrideshead RevisitedAtonement.AtonementBrideshead Here’s my review from The American Conservative of last summer’s “Brideshead Revisited,” now out...

From my movie review in Taki’s Magazine: Almost three years ago, the Academy Awards gave the Best Picture Oscar to Ben Affleck’s Iranian hostage drama Argo to encourage making more medium-budget...

Brooklyn is a pretty good although strikingly sedate movie that might snag one of the many Best Picture Oscar nominations, but won’t win. It’s a fairly realistic story of a pretty but not...

Mr. Jackman's Trainer From Men’s Journal, an article that’s fairly informative, even though it’s written in such a way that you can read it to support whatever you want to believe.  Building...