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Screening the best
Jeff Meyers and Corey Hall have been sitting through movies all year so you didn't have to
By Jeff Meyers and Corey Hall
Tags: Cinema
The King's Speech
What would the Christmas, pre-Oscar season be without a little middle-brow cotton candy from the brothers Weinstein?
By Jeff Meyers
True Grit
The Coen brothers are at their most accessible revisiting the Duke's Oscar-winner from 1969
The Fighter
A family slugfest of Oscar proportion
Tron: Legacy
At least it has the look and feel of something that's eyepoppingly great.
Black Swan
Wild swans: Natalie Portman and Darren Aronofsky's oddly alluring flight
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
What hath C.S. Lewis wrought?
Leaving
Shallow update of Lady Chatterley's Lover with a little Madame Bovary rolled in
Tiny Furniture
Get beyond the it's-all-about-me ennui and there's a film lurking somewhere
Tangled
Think of it as Rapunzel 2.0, an updated tale of a beautiful young princess
127 Hours
Danny Boyle and James Franco's latest film is better than it has any right to be
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
Go. Don't go. Nothing I write will make a difference. Still here? Very well.
My Dog Tulip
Lots of honesty, humanity and humor, though a tad discomfiting at times
Unstoppable
Lots to keep you engaged but growing impatience is not mounting suspense
Tamara Drewe
Sending up pretentious writers should be easier - and a whole lot funnier
Megamind
A movie is scraping for laughs when its soundtrack includes 'Bad to the Bone' and 'Highway to Hell'
Nine Nation Animation
An anthology of animation from nine countries that goes from good to brilliant
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Dark and glacially paced way to wrap up a trilogy
Now that it’s lit up, people seem to like Detroit’s new I-94 sign
By Steve Neavling
Pot-friendly Michigan music venue scales back programming
By Lee DeVito
Detroit’s City Winery music venue aims for 2025 opening