Tag: Kristin Dreyer Kramer (Critic)
Howl (2010)
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Inside Job (2010)
Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2009)
Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court.
Morning Glory (2010)
An upstart television producer accepts the challenge of reviving a struggling morning show program with warring co-hosts.
Due Date (2010)
High-strung father-to-be Peter Highman is forced to hitch a ride with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay on a road trip in order to make it to his child’s birth on time.
Megamind (2010)
The supervillain Megamind finally defeats his nemesis, the superhero Metro Man. But without a hero, he loses all purpose and must find new meaning to his life.
Conviction (2010)
A working mother puts herself through law school in an effort to represent her brother, who has been wrongfully convicted of murder and has exhausted his chances to appeal his conviction through public defenders.
A Film Unfinished (2010)
A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation forever changing the way we look at historic images.
Hereafter (2010)
A drama centered on three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — who are touched by death in different ways.
A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop (2009)
The owner of a Chinese noodle shop’s scheme to murder his adulterous wife and her lover goes awry.
It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Life as We Know It (2010)
Two single adults become caregivers to an orphaned girl when their mutual best friends die in an accident.
Never Let Me Go (2010)
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the world they live in comes knocking.
Secretariat (2010)
Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown.
Let Me In (2010)
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
The Social Network (2010)
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, but is later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.
Animal Kingdom (2010)
A seventeen year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.
Cairo Time (2009)
A romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.