Tag: Kristin Dreyer Kramer (Critic)
Flash of Genius (2008)
Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper.
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City.
Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008)
High school student Nick O’Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes.
Choke (2008)
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother’s hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
Eagle Eye (2008)
Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their every move.
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
A doctor who is traveling to see his estranged son sparks with an unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.
Baghead (2008)
Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea — a horror…
Igor (2008)
Animated fable about a cliché hunchbacked evil scientist’s assistant who aspires to become a scientist himself, much to the displeasure of the rest of the evil science community.
Lakeview Terrace (2008)
A LAPD officer will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple who just moved in next door.
Roman de Gare (2007)
A popular novelist researches unlikely sources to find characters for her next bestseller.
Transsiberian (2008)
A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Burn After Reading (2008)
A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it.
The Women (2008)
A wealthy New Yorker wrestles with the decision to leave her cheating husband, as she and her friends discover that women really can have it all.
Frozen River (2008)
Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling…
Disaster Movie (2008)
Over the course of one evening, an unsuspecting group of twenty-somethings find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters and catastrophic events.
Man on Wire (2008)
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit’s daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City’s World Trade Center’s twin towers in 1974, what some consider, “the artistic crime of the century.”
Traitor (2008)
When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn.