Denver Movie Reviews - Denver Movies Guide

Apart from the stray slasher flick, Halloween is traditionally a dead spot on the Hollywood calendar. This week's big release? The Michael... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 29, 2009

Bronson

The inmate who renamed himself after a Hollywood action star has been incarcerated for all but a few months of the past 34 years — thirty... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 29, 2009

The Canyon

Another one for the bad-stuff-happens-to-stupid-people file, The Canyon might at least offer the satisfaction of a few squirmy thrills if it... More>>

By Andrew Schenker

Published: October 22, 2009

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant

Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to... More>>

By AARON HILLIS

Published: October 22, 2009

Good Hair

Don Imus's hateful, racist 2007 remarks about "nappy-headed hos" underscored the immense fear of, and fascination with, the hair follicles of... More>>

By Melissa Anderson

Published: October 22, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are

Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 15, 2009

A Serious Man

The Yiddish shtetl shtick that opens Joel and Ethan Coen's new movie — a Jewish peasant stumbles on an old Hasid who may or may not be a... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 15, 2009

Crude at the Mayan

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Why? Because it's thick with sludge. Moving briskly through a stranger-than-fiction, serpentine... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 15, 2009

Still Walking

What's remarkable about Still Walking, Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's seventh feature film and one every bit as sensitive as his... More>>

By Anthony Kaufman

Published: October 08, 2009

Capitalism: A Love Story

The ushers at a packed screening of Michael Moore's latest movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, came proudly decked out in T-shirts bearing slogans... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 01, 2009

Le Combat Dans L'ile at Starz

Most movies dealing with terrorism these days treat it as fundamentalist insanity or societal cancer. In contrast, 1962's Le Combat Dans L'ile... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: October 01, 2009

Bright Star

Set in the bucolic suburbs of early nineteenth-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion's Bright Star recounts the... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: September 24, 2009

The Escapist, University of Colorado International Film Series

Like Memento, The Escapist, screening as part of the University of Colorado's International Film Series, freshens what could have been a genre... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: September 24, 2009

The Informant!

As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: September 17, 2009

Rashomon at Starz

The title of 1950's Rashomon is invoked whenever a filmmaker depicts the same event from multiple, often contradictory points of view. But... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: September 17, 2009

The September Issue

When, in the early '00s, I worked as a freelancer for a publication two floors below Vogue — this was pre-Devil Wears Prada — each... More>>

By Melissa Anderson

Published: September 10, 2009

Cold Souls

Sophie Barthes's clever metaphysical comedy Cold Souls has been dubbed "Being Paul Giamatti" more than once since its Sundance 2009 debut. But if... More>>

By Anthony Kaufman

Published: September 10, 2009

TriMedia Film Festival in Fort Collins

Fort Collins's three-day TriMedia Film Festival showcases a handful of movies featuring recognizable faces, including Trucker, co-starring... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: September 10, 2009

Extract

Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: September 03, 2009

The Windmill Movie at Starz

Early in The Windmill Movie, filmmaker Richard P. Rogers, whose never-completed autobiographical project was knitted together by former student... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: September 03, 2009

Taking Woodstock

If you remember Woodstock, you probably weren't there," the expression goes. And if you were, can you please stop gassing on about it? Aquarian... More>>

By Melissa Anderson

Published: August 27, 2009

Thirst

Finally, there's a vampire movie worthy of the title The Hunger — even if it arrives under the more potable name Thirst. Carnal appetite,... More>>

By Jim Ridley

Published: August 27, 2009

Ghosted at Starz

Ghosted, opening this week, is a collection of potentially intriguing elements — emphasis on "potentially." The action moves between... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: August 27, 2009

Inglourious Basterds

Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment — rich in fantasy... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: August 20, 2009

Betty Blue at Starz

Early in Betty Blue, aspiring novelist Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) declares, "She was like a flower with translucent antennae and a mauve plastic... More>>

By Michael Roberts

Published: August 20, 2009