Kansas City Movie Reviews

Hancock

The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis as a dead man, was writer-director M. Night Shyamalan's breakthrough, but its follow-up, Unbreakable,... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: July 03, 2008

Diminished Capacity

This first feature by character actor and theater director Terry Kinney addresses, once again, America's apparent surfeit of sweet-souled losers... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: July 03, 2008

Flight of the Red Balloon

The Red Balloon was the art-house E.T. of 1956. Flight of the Red Balloon is something far more baffling — a literal-minded movie with an... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: July 03, 2008

WALL-E

Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It's R2-D2 in love, 2001: A Space Odyssey starring the Little Tramp, An Inconvenient Truth... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: June 26, 2008

Kansas City Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

Chris & Don: A Love Story Tina Mascara and Guido Santi's documentary is a charming, illuminating portrait of the complex and storied queer... More>>

Published: June 26, 2008

Before the Rains

British plantation owner and colonialist Henry Moores (Linus Roache) cavorts with his Indian mistress, Sajani (Nandita Das), as he makes plans to... More>>

By Julia Wallace

Published: June 26, 2008

Wanted

Of the summer's many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies — from The Incredible Hulk to The Foot Fist Way — Wanted stands the... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: June 26, 2008

Get Smart

As old Broadway shows are revived, new Broadway shows get spun from old movies so that new movies may be fashioned from ancient TV series. It's... More>>

By J Hoberman

Published: June 19, 2008

The Love Guru

Mike Myers likes ice hockey. He also likes Deepak Chopra, a little bit too much. So he pulled together a bit of hockey and a whole lot of Chopra... More>>

By ELLA TAYLOR

Published: June 19, 2008

Mongol

You want a history lesson? Take a class. You want clanging swords, sneering villains, storybook romance and bloody vengeance? Here's a brawny... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: June 19, 2008

Roman de Gare

Claude Lelouch's A Man and a Woman, one of the silliest love songs in the canon of French fluff, gets a beguiling makeover 42 years on in this... More>>

By ELLA TAYLOR

Published: June 19, 2008

The Incredible Hulk

In recent days, Universal has been running a TV spot for The Incredible Hulk that gives away what should come as no surprise to any fanboy worth... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: June 12, 2008

Jellyfish

Predicated on the spectacle of functionally depressed types stuck in mildly ridiculous situations, the Israeli ensemble comedy Jellyfish has an... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: June 12, 2008

Standard Operating Procedure

Errol Morris' latest documentary addresses Iraq — specifically the infamous photographs of abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib and the so-called... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: June 12, 2008

You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsized codpiece, as a super-heavy named Zohan the Mossad. He catches barbecued fish in... More>>

By ELLA TAYLOR

Published: June 05, 2008

Kung Fu Panda

By all means, gather up the little ones and take them to this perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly unoriginal... More>>

By ELLA TAYLOR

Published: June 05, 2008

Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

Given rapt attention and care in the framing, there is no more engrossing subject than man at work. The proof, yet again, is in director Ben... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: June 05, 2008

Sex and the City: The Movie

Oh, please — spoiler alert? Fine, I won't tell you whether Carrie Bradshaw ties the knot with Mr. Big, even though you've already seen that... More>>

By ELLA TAYLOR

Published: May 29, 2008

The Strangers

Suggesting an American remake of David Moreau and Xavier Palud's Them, The Strangers is practically an abstraction: an old-school spooker spun... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: May 29, 2008

The Fall

Something like a pain-fueled, R-rated Princess Bride, The Fall straddles the intertwined worlds of storytelling and story. One half is a... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: May 29, 2008

Cannes Class of 2008

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

CANNES, France—Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: May 29, 2008

Cannes Class of 2008

A jury divided unites around Laurent Cantet's schoolhouse drama

CANNES, France—Wading through 20-odd movies in half as many languages, each Cannes jury supplies its own dramatic narrative, to be... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: May 29, 2008

Shots in the Dark

Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

CANNES, France—No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the... More>>

By J Hoberman

Published: May 22, 2008

A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.

Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns,... More>>

By SCOTT FOUNDAS

Published: May 22, 2008

Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.

CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven... More>>

By J. HOBERMAN

Published: May 22, 2008

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