Santa Fe Reporter - Movie Reviews

The Reluctant Audience - It’s easy to see where The Reluctant Fundamentalist is going [meh]

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
One day Riz Ahmed will be cast in a movie that’s worthy of his talent.

It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s Father Yod! - Yet another cult in The Source Family [meh]

Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel

The Source Family is a cult. Or it was a cult.

Whiskey-Soaked Redemption - Ken Loach tackles comedy with lots of drama in The Angels’ Share [ok]

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel

Has there been a comedy with this many ass kickings since the Coen brothers’ Miller’s Crossing?

The Sky is Falling! Or Something! - No, really, It’s a Disaster [ok]

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
It’s not often that movies subvert expectations.

Summer Has Begun - Shit blows up in 'Iron Man 3'

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
After two Iron Man movies, The Avengers and cameos in other Marvel pictures, it’s hard to tell what Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) has left to prove.

How’d He Do? - Koch on 'Koch' [ok]

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
For those of us who were either too young to remember New York City mayor Ed Koch’s three terms or just didn’t live in New York then,

Calling Conspiracy Theorists - 'Room 237' is for those who own tinfoil hats [barf]

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Reader, you’re about to see the most hateful review I’ve committed to print and the interwebs.

Nope - ‘To the Wonder’ is barftastic [barf]

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
To the executives at Magnolia Pictures:

No peace, no love, misunderstanding - Seriously, this is ‘The Company You Keep’? [meh]

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Judging by just how many famous people appear in Robert Redford’s latest directing effort, we can be certain of one thing: Famous people really, really want to be directed by him.

Enter Oblivion - Tom Cruise stars in crunchy smoothie [ok]

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: Corey Johnson
Joseph Kosinski is simultaneously the most intriguing and frustrating director in Hollywood. The Tron: Legacy director is a stunning visuals craftsman, but his stories seem to lack completeness.

Running Around In Circles - Shane Carruth returns with ‘Upstream Color’ [meh]

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
There are times when watching movies that the casual viewer, and even the cynical critic, must think, “In all seriousness: What am I watching?”

Vietnam Soul - ‘The Sapphires’ is…oh, whatever [meh]

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
It’s a good thing Chris O’Dowd is on screen a lot during The Sapphires, because he brings some welcome comic relief to a movie that feels steeped in the wrong kind of comic relief.

It’s All a Blur - Perhaps we can use Trance’s hypnotherapy technique to forget we’ve seen it [meh] 

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
In movies, as in life, there’s a time and place for artifice over art, style over substance and a good time over a thoughtful time.

Ugh, You’re Out - There are 50 ways to leave your lover; are there 42 ways to avoid seeing '42'? [meh]

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
I’ve been looking forward to 42 for months.

Drinking, Smoking, Cuttin’ a Rug - If this is life 'On the Road' take me home [meh]

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Something seems amiss in this version of 'On the Road'; surely, the beats could not have been so conventionally dull, their problems so surface-level, their behavior so easy to unravel.

Look! A Boring Dinosaur! - Do we really need 'Jurassic Park' 3-D? [meh]

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
So 'Jurassic Park' gets a big 3-D upgrade. Who cares?

It’s Not Really About the Bomb - 'Ginger & Rosa' grow up, grow apart [ok]

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Ginger and Rosa are inseparable. Their mothers give birth in the same London hospital room at the close of World War II, and the girls spend most of their waking hours together from the time they can walk.

Doing Time With Shakespeare - 'Caesar Must Die' proves the bard's words are good enough for anyone [ok] 

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
“Since I got to know art,” says Cosimo Rega, an inmate at Rebibbia Prison in Italy, “this cell has become a prison.”

Admission Denied - Admission ain’t great [meh]

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel
Some movies are serious comedies. Others are dramas that happen to be quite funny. Then there’s Admission, which can’t make up its mind on which it is and is subsequently neither.

Definitely Not Stoked - Stoker is really dull, and really predictable [meh]

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 MDT

By: David Riedel

The title of Stoker is supposed to be some kind of clue as to what’s happening in this movie, but really, nothing can prepare the audience for the sheer silliness of the screenplay.