KCRW's Film Reviews
KCRW's Film Reviews
Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current ...
Avatar
James Camerion's Avatar takes place on a planet called Pandora, where American corporations and their military mercenaries have set up ...
Invictus; The Lovely Bones
Until now, America's curiosity about rugby has been on a par with its knowledge, but this could change with the advent of Invictus... Clint ...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; Red Cliff
This year's prize for clumsiest title goes to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I wanted to get that out of the way so I could talk ...
2012; Pirate Radio
2012 is Roland Emmerich's latest assault on planet Earth and its moviegoers, and it isn't the end of the world: it only feels that ...
A Christmas Carol; Precious
To put it bluntly, and Scroogely, Disney's 3-D animated version of A Christmas Carol is a calamity...
In a shockingly beautiful new film ...
This Is It; Cirque du Soleil
After all the media madness about Michael Jackson over all the years and decades, it comes as bittersweet news that he lives vividly in ...
Amelia
I've seen the movie Amelia, and I can tell you that Amelia Earhart is still missing...
Where the Wild Things Are
The movie version of Where the Wild Things Are honors the book in every imaginable way...and in ways no one could have imagined until Spike ...
An Education
This week brings a thrilling new film called An Education. It's a tale of an English schoolgirl's hard-won wisdom, and it's thrilling for ...
The Invention of Lying; Zombieland
Nobody doesn't like Ricky Gervais, and his new comedy soars for a while on the wings of a clever premise: it's set in a world where ...