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'I Am Legend': Not a Classicnew

There's a sizeable early-to-middle stretch in the decidedly post-apocalyptic flick that drew this viewer involuntarily (and more than once) to his seat-edge and managed to hold him more palpably rapt than a great many ostensibly comparable films of recent years.

San Antonio Current | Brian Villalobos | 12-12-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend

Silk Road Detoursnew

From Afghanistan's blasted terrain (The Kite Runner) to the tea fields of China (All in This Tea) at the movies -- two trips well worth taking.

East Bay Express | Kelly Vance | 12-12-2007 | Reviews

'I Am Legend': Apocalypse Nahnew

The biggest problem -- the one that prevents the film from rising above mediocrity -- is that it sometimes grabs you by the balls, yet it's afraid to twist like an apocalypse should.

Willamette Week | Ap Kryza | 12-12-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend

'Juno' Turns on a Heroine's Choicenew

I walked into Juno expecting to love it, and halfway through was beginning to think I didn't care for it very much. But the film soldiers on, and develops a gravity to match its gravidity.

Willamette Week | Aaron Mesh | 12-12-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Juno, Jason Reitman

$128 Million Later: Will Smith is the Last Movie Star on Earthnew

The exteriors are stunning, and sadly, an insistent, ongoing metaphor for the script's inability to suggest much interior life.

Chicago Newcity | Ray Pride | 12-12-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend

Guy Maddin Doses Audiences with Another Mad Vision of Yesteryearnew

Experimental fantasist Maddin continues his somewhat prolific career of weirdness with Brand Upon the Brain!, a curiously anachronistic horror-mystery the filmmaker describes as "semi-autobiographical."

Weekly Alibi | Devin D. O’Leary | 12-11-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Brand upon the Brain!, Guy Maddin

Solitary Man

I Am Legend captures the eerie loneliness of the last man on earth.

Salt Lake City Weekly | Scott Renshaw | 12-11-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend

'Honey and Clover': Another Art School Confidentialnew

Honey and Clover is a live-action manga adaptation set in a college dorm full of silent longing and artistic insecurity.

Seattle Weekly | Brian Miller | 12-10-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Honey and Clover, Masahiro Takada

'Atonement': A Novel Treatnew

It's that rare combo: a good movie based on a good book.

Chicago Reader | J.R. Jones | 12-10-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Atonement, Joe Wright

Barren Sci-fi Horror Bites the Hand That Wrote it

Director Francis Lawrence was clearly not the best choice to helm the latest adaptation of Richard Matheson's 1954 classic sci-fi/horror blender that spawned The Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man.

Maui Time | Cole Smithey | 12-09-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend

Strike Up the Bandnew

Eran Kolirin, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Band's Visit, has a sense of humor as dry as Bet Hatikva's arid desert wind and is too smart to bore us with ham-fisted humanistic bromides.

L.A. Weekly | Scott Foundas | 12-07-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Eran Kolirin, The Band's Visit

John Cusack Enters the Iraq Weepstakesnew

Grace is Gone wants to massage liberal sensibilities about the war without alienating the church-going, Wal-Mart-shopping Middle Americans who might see, in Stanley Phillips, a reflection of themselves.

L.A. Weekly | Scott Foundas | 12-07-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Grace is Gone, James Strouse

Knocked-up Knockoutnew

Tart of tongue and sweet of disposition, Juno offers living proof that crisp writing, graceful directing and an abundantly poised young lead can perk up a premise that’s been bludgeoned to death.

L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor | 12-07-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Juno, Jason Reitman