Nashville Movie Reviews

Poster Children

The Doorpost Film Project wants to make the movies better, one year at a time

In the movie business, where good deeds typically entail a price tag somewhere down the line, the Doorpost Film Project may be the hardest thing... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: September 04, 2008

Trail of Tears

Rediscovered feature from the early 1960s is summer's most exciting find

"The old people remember the past," a narrator says early in The Exiles over a prologue of Edward S. Curtis photographs—faces of aged... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: September 04, 2008

This week in local theaters

DISASTER MOVIE In the Adam Sandler vehicle Little Nicky, Hitler spends eternity in Hell in a frilly smock getting pineapples shoved up his butt.... More>>

Published: September 04, 2008

Everything Is Fine

An email correspondence with Crispin Hellion Glover, actor, author and director of What is it?

Not since John Cassavetes subsidized his intensely personal, idiosyncratic films by acting in drive-in schlock like Incubus has an... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: September 04, 2008

The Heart Is Deceitful

Provocateurs Catherine Breillat and Asia Argento put their (tramp) stamp on 19th century France

Catherine Breillat hitches her wagon to the hottest of European stars, Asia Argento, in a highly entertaining adaptation of French dandy... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: August 28, 2008

Filling in the Director's Chair

Nashville Film Festival names new artistic director

When programmers from around the world converge next week at the Toronto International Film Festival, the Olympics of bleary-eyed cinephilia, for... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: August 28, 2008

Stick a Cork in It

It's anything but a good year for the overripe grapes of Bottle Shock

Bottle Shock, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is a great concept populated by great actors that works hard to make its... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: August 21, 2008

This week in local theaters

TELL NO ONE To hear cynics tell it, you could translate a Matlock episode into French and critics would hoist it to their shoulders. With this... More>>

Published: August 21, 2008

The Looming Tower

A daredevil's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies

Even as the first girders were laid in the mid-1960s, something about the World Trade Center—that twin-pronged erection jutting from the... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: August 14, 2008

Short Takes

This week in local theaters

TROPIC THUNDER Scratch the surface of Ben Stiller's satire of Hollywood cynicism and narcissism, and among some big laughs you'll find mostly... More>>

Published: August 14, 2008

Maddin '08

Canada's king of ersatz silent-era splendor discusses his Winnipeg

A city that paves over its past and puts up nondescript commercial buildings, a city where losing the local NHL team looms as a matter of grave... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: August 14, 2008

The Young Man's Dream

On the occasion of his new film Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen discusses Larry David, Puccini and the agony of assembling his movies

The last time I interviewed Woody Allen, at his editing suite on Manhattan's Upper East Side, he was preparing the release of Match Point (2005),... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: August 14, 2008

True Bromance

In Pineapple Express, two chronic offenders race the bong arm of the law—andget a contact high off each other

On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-'em-up, smoke-'em-up, blow-'em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: August 07, 2008

Short Takes

BEER FOR MY HORSES Pay to see this video-caliber Toby Keith vehicle, and you'll feel like you got one of those Larry Mahan colonoscopies Keith... More>>

Published: August 07, 2008

Party of One

Presidential candidates vie (and pander and plead) for one heart and mind in Swing Vote

Swing Vote is an election-themed comedy that's about twice as smart as you expect it to be and still only half as smart as you wish it was. The... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: July 31, 2008

Short Takes

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED A movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's tale of England collapsing under the pressure of social change—even one that has... More>>

Published: July 31, 2008

Men II Boyz

With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay & Co. still don't wanna grow up—and thank God for that

I haven't seen much at the movies in the past two years that has given me as much unbridled comic pleasure as the sight of Will Ferrell as the... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: July 24, 2008

The Big Chill

Gleaning lessons from the darkness, Werner Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World

Some say the world will end in fire, some—like Werner Herzog—say ice. Flying in the face of global warming, this profoundly... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: July 24, 2008

Night of the Hunter

An absorbing new doc asks: Will the real Hunter Thompson please stand up?

"In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: July 17, 2008

Heart of Darkness

Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns

What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City—if "pleasure" is the right word for a movie that gazes so... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: July 17, 2008

Short Takes

MAMMA MIA! Sure, it's nice that the actors sing their own numbers—Meryl Streep has a fab set of pipes, and the fact that Pierce Brosnan... More>>

Published: July 17, 2008

Devil May Care

Big Red returns in a mindless, revved-up Hellboy sequel

Hollywood’s Endless Superhero Summer rolls on with the arrival of Hellboy II: The Golden Army from Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo... More>>

Chuck Wilson

Published: July 10, 2008

Going Down

Brendan Fraser falls into a deep, deep hole at the Center of the Earth

by Robert Wilonsky At the top, let’s be clear about one thing: Journey to the Center of the Earth is more a demo reel than a narrative... More>>

Robert Wilonsky

Published: July 10, 2008

Short Takes

This week in local theaters.

CONSTANTINE’S SWORD X marks the spot, literally, where Christianity and the Catholic Church ensured the centuries of religious hatred and... More>>

Published: July 10, 2008

Chauvinism Is Forever

In the year of Ian Flemingâ€™s centennial, do feminists have any reason to celebrate 007? Maybe.

Here’s an obvious statement: James Bond ﬁlms are some of the most patently offensive, profoundly anti-feminist vehicles around. When... More>>

Tracy Moore

Published: July 03, 2008

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