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The Karate Kid: Kung Fu Shufflenew
This movie barely mentions karate, so why name it The Karate Kid? Beyond that Hollywood stupidity, this remake isn’t a great movie and neither was the original, but it may be good enough to inspire a new generation and a new audience.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
06-09-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Karate Kid, Harald Zwart
'Mother and Child': Missing Girlsnew
In his low-key dramatic films, Rodrigo Garcia writes roles that let women show off what they can do. The results are sometimes electrifying -- but not in his schematic and unsatisfying latest movie, Mother and Child.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
06-02-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Mother and Child, Rodrigo García
A Rock Star's Greek Orgynew
Get Him to the Greek is a wilder, funnier, more anarchic version of The Hangover. It’s The Hangover on mood-altering drugs.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
06-02-2010 |
Reviews
MacGruber: The 80s Live!new
After all the negative and positive hype, this movie turns out to be resoundingly OK. It's not a great comedy, but it has its moments.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
05-26-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Jorma Taccone, MacGruber
'Death at a Funeral': Back from the Gravenew
The British farce returns, African-Americanized and slightly better.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
04-21-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Death at a Funeral, Neil LaBute
'The Joneses' Doesn't Keep Up With Its Early Promisenew
The Joneses starts off quite well, which makes it all the more disappointing to see it end so badly, yet it remains a film that’s worth checking out in some form.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
04-21-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Derrick Borte, The Joneses
A Kids's Book Becomes... an Iraq War Allegory?new
Fans of Cressida Cowell's book series about boys, Vikings and dragons won't recognize much in this visually superb but slick and unsatisfying animated movie.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
03-26-2010 |
Reviews
Ben Stiller is a Bastard in This Excellent Drama About a Failurenew
Two things you should know off the bat about Greenberg. First, it’s a deeply unlikable movie. Second, I liked it. You see, most movies have main characters who are nice people, because moviegoers tend to prefer the company of such characters
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
03-25-2010 |
Reviews
Kristen Stewart Rocks Out in 'The Runaways'new
An uneven music bio is made compulsively watchable by Stewart's performance as someone who is rapidly figuring herself out musically and sexually.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
03-19-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Runaways, Floria Sigismondi
Kids Film 'Shorts' is Uneven but Enjoyablenew
Shorts isn't nearly as good as the first Spy Kids. Still, on a scale of Robert Rodriguez's kids' movies, it's much better than The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
08-20-2009 |
Reviews
The Music Soars and the Story Bores in 'Cadillac Records'new
The story obeys the same music-biography conventions that we last saw being parodied in Walk Hard. This film is by Darnell Martin, the writer-director who has largely been confined to TV since his 1994 filmmaking debut I Like It Like That, a movie pitched at Latino audiences at a time when very few other movies were. He doesn't have the advantage here of working in a field where there's no competition, and his sense of drama is incurably hackneyed and unsubtle.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
12-04-2008 |
Reviews
'What Happens' Feels Longer Than a Quickie Marriage and is More Embarrassingnew
This is a mean-spirited piece of work, and you know what? It needed to be meaner. Maybe that wouldn't have made the movie any better, but at least it would have been consistent. Instead, we have an irredeemably phony twist halfway through, when the filmmakers suddenly seem to remember that these characters are supposed to be appealing.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
05-08-2008 |
Reviews
'Redbelt': You Can't Spell Mamet Without MMA!new
The famed playwright goes jiu-jitsu on us.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
05-08-2008 |
Reviews
The Seniors in 'Young@Heart' Are Never Too Old to Learn New Songsnew
If you saw the Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light and were impressed by the energy of those sexagenarian band members, you should check out another concert film that's about an even older -- and, in some ways, even cooler -- group of musicians.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
04-17-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Stephen Walker, Young@Heart
'Nim's Island': Survivor Girlnew
The secret of Nim is the location of a girl's island home in this overly silly family film.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Kristian Lin |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
