Tag: Kristin Dreyer Kramer (Critic)
More Than a Game (2008)
This documentary follows NBA superstar LeBron James and four of his talented teammates through the trials and tribulations of high school basketball in Ohio and James’ journey to fame.
Bright Star (2009)
The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
An examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good.
Whip It (2009)
In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock loving misfit finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a roller derby league in nearby Austin.
Zombieland (2009)
A shy student trying to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy trying to find the last Twinkie, and a pair of sisters trying to get to an amusement park join forces to travel across a zombie-filled America.
Fame (2009)
An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009)
A guy tries to patch things up with his soon-to-be-married pal after botching things up at his bachelor party.
It Might Get Loud (2008)
A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.
Surrogates (2009)
Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates.
Departures (2008)
A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
A newly possessed high school cheerleader turns into a succubus who specializes in killing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
My One and Only (2009)
An unusual road trip movie about a mother driving her two sons from New York to Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.
The Informant! (2009)
The U.S. government decides to go after an agro-business giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre.
9 (2009)
A rag doll that awakens in a postapocalyptic future holds the key to humanity’s salvation.
Extract (2009)
Joel, the owner of an extract plant, tries to contend with myriad personal and professional problems, such as his potentially unfaithful wife and employees who want to take advantage of him.
Adam (2009)
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger’s Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
Paper Heart (2009)
Charlyne Yi embarks on a quest across America to make a documentary about the one subject she doesn’t fully understand: Love.
Taking Woodstock (2009)
A man working at his parents’ motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.