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3/4
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The Tree of Life
(2008)
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Frank Ochieng
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...absorbing, mysterious, lyrical and distinctively titillating...a moody masterpiece that is thrillingly alarming...[a] tale of wandering hedonism and anguish
Posted May 05, 2008
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4/4
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Taxi to the Dark Side
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Utterly engrossing and captivating in its inquisitive scope. Provocative and polarizing, Taxi invites us to eavesdrop on a movement of mistrust and mischievous mayhem
Posted Mar 03, 2008
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2/4
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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
(2008)
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Frank Ochieng
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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins feels like a rudimentary retread of previously outrageous "black attack" farces... needlessly cluttered, unfocused and pointless...
Posted Feb 19, 2008
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2/4
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Mad Money
(2008)
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Frank Ochieng
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[A] pointless payday for director Khourie's banal blank check comedy...a straining pseudo-hysterical heist flick that has all the giddy appeal of an empty bank draft.
Posted Jan 20, 2008
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3.5/4
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Starting Out in the Evening
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Wagner's penetrating narrative is poetically stimulating in its smart approach to its dialogue-driven excellence and standout performances.
Posted Dec 15, 2007
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2/4
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Margot at the Wedding
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Synthetically dull, manipulative and emotionally clunky, Baumbach's mawkish melodrama is a pretentious and garrulous character study that sits idly in its moping gibberish.
Posted Dec 07, 2007
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3/4
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Juno
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Cunningly perceptive and hip in its irresistible skepticism about the comforts and uncertainties of love, Juno is enchantingly bright and breezy in its effecting resonance.
Posted Dec 06, 2007
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3/4
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A Mighty Heart
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Absorbingly touching and terrifying, A Mighty Heart is an intimate film but has the gutsy and reflective ingredients of sorrow, introspection and outrage.
Posted Nov 07, 2007
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2/4
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Bee Movie
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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A spelling bee. A busy bee. A killer bee. But a Seinfeld bee? Sorry Jerry, your hapless honey-seeking hero doesn't create much of an animated buzz.
Posted Nov 04, 2007
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3/4
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American Gangster
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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American Gangster dares to look in the menacing mirror and reflect the scabrous priorities that define some handsomely yet disillusion others hauntingly.
Posted Nov 02, 2007
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1.5/4
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Saw IV
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Stultifying in its pseudo-sensationalistic schlock, this numbingly and nightmarish narrative has no legitimate creepy conviction beyond flexing its meaningless, morose muscles
Posted Nov 01, 2007
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2.5/4
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Dan in Real Life
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Heartwarming, quirky and quietly affecting...the overall package is peppered with an easy-going dosage of reflective schmaltz...warm, inviting and actively spirited...
Posted Nov 01, 2007
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2/4
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Rendition
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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...housing top-notch actors and their hefty paychecks but nothing else beyond the obviousness of the melodramatic malarkey it spouts with empty conviction.
Posted Oct 23, 2007
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3/4
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Gone Baby Gone
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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[A] tortured morality play that takes place on the salacious sidewalks where bluebloods and bombastic blue-collared souls equally pound the pavement in cynical unity.
Posted Oct 23, 2007
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2.5/4
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30 Days of Night
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Bleak, bombastic and belligerent, Slade's blood-busting bohemians will indeed take a caustic chunk out of your imaginative horrifying souls.
Posted Oct 20, 2007
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3/4
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Things We Lost in the Fire
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Surprisingly, this insightful tearjerker is padded with expressive layers well beyond the average made-for-television sentiments because of the penetrating performances.
Posted Oct 20, 2007
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1.5/4
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The Comebacks
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Let's face it, folks...we need another repetitive spoof movie like a piglet needs dirty fingernails...never registers beyond aping its lazy connect-the-dots jocularity.
Posted Oct 20, 2007
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2/4
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The Final Season
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob.
Posted Oct 15, 2007
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3/4
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Why Did I Get Married?
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Lyrical and reflective, Married is an entertaining inquiry into that everlasting hunt for elusive marital bliss and the empty-hearted casualties that are all too familiar with its unpredictability.
Posted Oct 12, 2007
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2/4
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We Own the Night
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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A sluggishly regurgitation of the noteworthy 70's-style cop dramas. The nocturnal naughtiness behind Gray's mean streets saga begs for a compelling ounce of creative daylight
Posted Oct 11, 2007
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2/4
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Across the Universe
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Somehow, the Beatles' precious diamonds are glaringly missing from Lucy's sky if not in Julie's unevenly charismatic but cluttered and customary Universe.
Posted Oct 11, 2007
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1.5/4
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Resident Evil: Extinction
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Extinction is basically a robotic and wretched screen-sized visual video game that never challenges or stimulates the audience's rush for genuine outrageous freakiness.
Posted Oct 09, 2007
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3.5/4
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Control - Love Will Tear Us Apart
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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[An] intimate look at a tragic footnote in entertainment. A moody yet strangely melodic concoction about creativity and confusion in an overwhelming abyss of artistic isolation
Posted Oct 08, 2007
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2/4
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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Cunningham's scope is myopic and minimal in a mystical yet meandering piece of malarkey that masquerades as a long-winded Tolkien treasure hunt for teenage thrill-seekers.
Posted Oct 08, 2007
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1.5/4
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The Heartbreak Kid
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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The Farrellys' The Heartbreak Kid is a seemingly sketchy and erratic farce that begs for some of the wayward cinematic siblings' trademark outlandish quirkiness.
Posted Oct 06, 2007
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2/4
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Feast of Love
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Feast does nothing concrete to make us embrace this uneven romancer that has all the giddy spirit of a melted box of chocolates.
Posted Oct 05, 2007
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2/4
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The Game Plan
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Sappy and simplistic, The Game Plan belongs on the sidelines of stale cotton candy creativity.
Posted Sep 27, 2007
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3/4
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Aside from the movie's mouthful title, this [is a] contemplative and carousing exposition. [The] prairie-induced pathos is plenty to digest with absolute reverence.
Posted Sep 21, 2007
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1.5/4
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Good Luck Chuck
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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[A] fetid romantic comedy...In short, if it weren't for bad Luck then the chump Chuck wouldn't have any cinematic luck at all.
Posted Sep 20, 2007
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2/4
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The Brave One
(2007)
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Frank Ochieng
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Jordan's Brave delves into a showy yet sluggish crime drama that incorporates all the cliched parts of a fatalistic fantasy audiences have seen over and over.
Posted Sep 17, 2007
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