Reviwed by Richard Lee Zuras Released July 24, 2009 1 hr. 36 min. Marc Webb/Fox Searchlight Films Joseph Gordon-Levitt Zooey Deschanel Full disclosure: I am a huge Zooey Deschanel fan. (Though I haven’t seen her recent years-long slew of Indie films.) I “discovered” her in her first film, a decade ago, entitled Mumford. Since then, […]
Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released July 1, 2009 2 hr. 20 min. Michael Mann/Universal Johnny Depp Christian Bale Marion Cotillard Billy Crudup Jason Clarke Giovanni Ribisi If you aren’t Michael Bay (Transformers), you can do a lot of good with $80 million. Michael Mann has spent his money wisely. The actors are top notch, […]
Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released May 8, 2009 2 hr. 6 min. PG-13 J.J. Abrams/Paramount Leonard Nimoy Zachary Quinto Chris Pine Zoe Saldana Eric Bana Bruce Greenwood Simon Pegg John Cho When one watches the pilot episode of a tv show, one is usually advised to allow for the fact that pilot shows are […]
Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released Jan. 30, 2009 1 hr. 33 min. PG-13 Pierre Morel/20th Century Fox Liam Neeson Famke Jannsen Maggie Grace Xander Berkeley It is time to wake up and question the world around us. I don’t mean to say here that we should wake up and question the corruption that is […]
Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released Feb. 13, 2009 1 hr. 45 min. PG P.J.Hogan/Bruckheimer Films Isla Fisher Hugh Dancy Krysten Ritter Critics used to exist to steer folks away from movies like this. In this day and age, people seldom listen to the critics–even when, en masse, the critics rise up and sound the […]
Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released Jan. 11, 2009 1 hr. 56 min. R Clint Eastwood/Warner Brothers Clint Eastwood Christopher Carley Bee Vang Ahney Hur John Carroll Lynch Rumored (falsely) to be the last Dirty Harry film, Gran Torino lives up to that lineage in many ways. Though the film does not center around the […]
Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released Jan. 16, 2009 1 hr. 31 min. PG Steve Carr/Columbia Pictures Kevin James Bobby Cannavale Jayma Mays Peter Gerety Keir O’Donnell Odd as it might be to fathom, Paul Blart was/is a heavily marketed vehicle film for Kevin James. Albeit that the vehicle employed truly is a Segway. But […]
Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released Dec. 25, 2008 2 hr. 41 min. PG-13 David Fincher/Paramount&WB Brad Pitt Cate Blanchett Tilda Swinton Taraji P. Henson Julia Ormond Who would ever have thought that a short story F. Scott Fitzgerald’s agent had trouble selling would one day become a thirteen time oscar nominated $150,000,000 budget blockbuster? […]
Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released Dec. 25 I hr. 44 min. PG-13 John Patrick Shanley/Miramax Meryl Streep Philip Seymour Hoffman Amy Adams Viola Davis Some films have divining rods built into them. It may be argued that a film such as Doubt has such a rod. After all, who among us that has been […]
Jan. 17, 2009 Reviewed by Richard Lee Zuras Released Jan. 16, 2009 2 hr. 17 min. R Edward Zwick/The Weinstein Company Daniel Craig Liev Schreiber Mark Feuerstein Jamie Bell This is a truly defiant movie. On one hand Defiance is the true story of a band of Jewish me, women, and children who fled to […]