Tag: Kristin Dreyer Kramer (Critic)
The Exploding Girl (2009)
On a summer break from college, a young epileptic woman struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.
Babies (2010)
A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo.
Iron Man 2 (2010)
With the world now aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must contend with both his declining health and a vengeful mad man with ties to his father’s legacy.
The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
City Island (2009)
The Rizzos, a family who doesn’t share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought…
North Face (2008)
Based on a true story, North Face is a suspenseful adventure film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation’s…
The Back-up Plan (2010)
A woman conceives twins through artificial insemination, only to meet the man of her dreams on the very same day.
The Losers (2010)
A CIA special forces team are betrayed and left for dead by their superiors, galvanizing them to mount an offensive on the CIA.
Oceans (2009)
An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the sub-aquatic world.
Death at a Funeral (2010)
A funeral ceremony turns into a debacle of exposed family secrets and misplaced bodies.
Greenberg (2010)
A man from Los Angeles, who moved to New York years ago, returns to L.A. to figure out his life while he house-sits for his brother. He soon sparks with his brother’s assistant.
Kick-Ass (2010)
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing — or dead — for forty years by a young female hacker.
The Joneses (2009)
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they’re living there, they don’t exactly come clean with their neighbors.
Fish Tank (2009)
Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
The Runaways (2010)
A coming-of-age biographical film about the 1970s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways. This film also explores the relationship between band members Joan Jett and Cherie Currie.
A Prophet (2009)
A young Arab man is sent to a French prison.
Clash of the Titans (2010)
Perseus demigod, son of Zeus, battles the minions of the underworld to stop them from conquering heaven and earth.