The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Movie Reviews

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.

Valkyrie (2008) Movie Reviews

Valkyrie (2008)

A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.

Seven Pounds (2008) Movie Reviews

Seven Pounds (2008)

A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

Let the Right One In (2008) Movie Reviews

Let the Right One In (2008)

Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

Nothing Like the Holidays (2008) Movie Reviews

Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)

A Puerto Rican family living in the area of Humboldt Park in west Chicago face what may be their last Christmas together.

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Movie Reviews

Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian Version of “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) Movie Reviews

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

A remake of the 1951 classic sci-fi film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

Milk (2008) Movie Reviews

Milk (2008)

The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California’s first openly gay elected official.

Nobel Son (2007) Movie Reviews

Nobel Son (2007)

Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He’s struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother…

Punisher: War Zone (2008) Movie Reviews

Punisher: War Zone (2008)

After hunting down and killing hundreds of violent criminals, Frank Castle, aka The Punisher, faces his most deadly foe yet: Jigsaw.

JCVD (2008) Movie Reviews

JCVD (2008)

Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages situation and reflects about his life during it.

Australia (2008) Movie Reviews

Australia (2008)

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.

Four Christmases (2008) Movie Reviews

Four Christmases (2008)

A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas.

Ashes of Time Redux (2008) Movie Reviews

Ashes of Time Redux (2008)

A broken-hearted hit man moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.

Synecdoche, New York (2008) Movie Reviews

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) Movie Reviews

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.

Twilight (2008) Movie Reviews

Twilight (2008)

A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.

Breakfast with Scot (2007) Movie Reviews

Breakfast with Scot (2007)

The hockey career of former Toronto Maple Leaf Eric McNally, who was known as a tough enforcer, came to an end with a shoulder injury. He is now a sportscaster. Except to his assistant Nula…