Chaos Theory is the sort of film you never really decide if you like. You know it’s competently made, smacks of truth and made you laugh, but a comprehensive judgment somehow remains impossible. There are certainly worse things than movies that make you think. Indeed, such cranial stimulation is a criterion for greatness in my […]

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This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read the rest of this review, click here.
Wong Kar Wai is one of today’s most original and visually unique directors. His highly stylized, non-linear storytelling is more like experiencing a dream than watching a film. He seeks to communicate sensory […]

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This has been a good spring for comedies that look backward in time for their inspiration. Last month, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day harkened back to an age of zany films that embraced farcical situations, mistaken identities, hidden secrets, slapstick humor, fast-talking, witty repartee and turbulent, mismatched romances — the very definition of the […]

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Nim’s Island is pure, unadulterated, escapist fantasy, the sort of roiling adventure film that kids will love but parents will simply have to endure.

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