The Invisible is quite probably the most dreary film I have seen all year. “What’s that?” you challenge. “A mash-up of Ghost and The O.C. with a point-of-view directed with uncompromising resolve at the protagonist’s navel is bad?” Sadly, yes. Here we have Nick Powell (Justin Chatwin of War of the Worlds, although to me […]

There’s a great big gulf separating “this Gen-Y riff on Rear Window is not nearly so bad as I expected” and “this Gen-Y riff on Rear Window is in fact good,” but you take what you can get from a movie like Disturbia, which in addition to its eye-rolling premise (“a Gen-Y riff on Rear […]

It is the traditional order of things that movies set in college, and also movies that are set in the mid-1980s and scored entirely with New Wave singles, will be high-pitched and manic. So I do admire the British rom-com Starter for 10 in this way, at least: it possesses a low-key, laid-back energy that […]

There’s an undeniable post-modern charm to casting Sienna Miller as Edie Sedgwick, as director George Hickenlooper has done in the feckless biopic Factory Girl: who better to embody Andy Warhol’s hollow Pop muse than an individual famous essentially for being a famous person? Tragically, post-modern charm only carries the film so far before it runs […]