Archive for March, 2007

Levitts performance is quite brilliant not the kind of thing youd expect from a kid who grew up playing an alien on 3rd Rock From the Sun, but its Scott Franks commitment to use Chriss condition as a catalyst and not as a definition of the character that makes IThe LookoutI an early contender to be one of the best pictures of 2007. But Ive gotten my sequencing out of order. I really should start at the beginning, not the end.

“The Lookout” is a new version of a very old story: A nobody falls in with scuzzball crooks who make him feel like somebody.

“After the Wedding” is a modern creation with a classic theme involving haves and have-nots, bloodlines and family ties.

Imagine an entire film infected with hangdog sensibility, unrelieved by humor or narrative interest, and you have “The Hawk Is Dying.”

The meat-and-potatoes style of “Sacco and Vanzetti” seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.

“Meet the Robinsons” is surely one of the worst theatrically released animated features issued under the Disney label in quite some time.

“Summer in Berlin” is a pointedly unglamorous slice of life that could be set in any urban neighborhood where real estate prices haven’t gone through the roof.

With “Blades of Glory,” Will Ferrell and Jon Heder stake an early claim to being the comedy couple of the year.