The Hurt Locker

For Army explosives teams in Iraq, IEDs leave damage back home as well as in the field.

It would be funny to call this film a bomb, but quite the opposite is true.

Outrage

Do politicians who speak out--and legislate--against homosexuality deserve to retain ownership of their hypocritical closet space?

There's a lot to be said here for the "no, not so much" side of the argument--with several laughs (and maybe a few gasps & tears) along the way.

Summer Hours (L'Heure D'Ete)

The Kid called the movie "very French," and then asked what the whole point was.

I told him to work backwards: the movie does not have to have a point, as it is French.

I Love You, Beth Cooper

Think of one of those old John Hughes high school comedy/romances.

Now picture it actually being somewhat funny.

Bruno

Funny, funny, funny-- but not at all as funny as I'd hoped.

Best when letting twits mock themselves, worst when teetering too far into the territory of feeding people's negative stereotypes.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Michael Bay's return to the scene of the crime leaves little of Egypt--or Hasbro--standing.

Truly awful, but I did have some favorite parts: those few seconds when my earplugs allowed me to doze off just a bit.

Sharks 3D

IN A WORLD where under-the-sea IMAX presentations seem to dominate, a new entry in the field must be extra special-- something this piece of detritus from Jean-Michel Cousteau is most certainly NOT.

The music is awful, the visuals muddy, the narration too sparse, AND in turtle-speak; I know the bar for IMAX films is kind of low, but this was just sad.