It’s a documentary … about physics. But “Particle Fever” is surprisingly thrilling with an emotional payoff. It takes a potentially daunting topic — the search for the elusive Higgs boson particle — and makes it accessible for the layperson without dumbing anything down. It’s also shot beautifully. My RogerEbert.com review....
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RogerEbert.com — HairBrained
“HairBrained” suggests what it might look like if “Rushmore” hero Max Fischer had stuck his finger in a light socket. This self-consciously quirky comedy feels contrived and unconvincing from the very start. My one-star RogerEbert.com review. Read the review here...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Non-Stop
The texts are coming from inside the plane! The semi-annual Liam Neeson Festival of Ass-Kicking is back. This time, he plays a troubled air marshal who receives threatening text messages during a trans-Atlantic flight from New York to London. The “fasten seat belts” sign definitely is on....
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Oscar picks
The Academy Awards are this Sunday. Perhaps you’ve heard. Ben, Matt, Alonso and I do our best to predict who will win on Hollywood’s biggest night....
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Harold Ramis tribute
The What the Flick?! crew looks back on the great career of the late Harold Ramis. We all grew up in the 1970s and ’80s, so Ramis’ films really shaped our comic sensibilities....
Read moreOscar Picks
Usually by this point in awards season (if not sooner), it’s pretty clear what’s going to happen on Oscar night. Clear favorites emerge, especially in the best-picture category: “Argo” last year, “The Artist” in 2012. But things could go a few different ways Sunday night at the Academy Awards. So!...
Read moreOn Harold Ramis, 1944-2014
There’s no way any of us realized in the moment how great Harold Ramis was. The comedies he directed, wrote and/or co-starred in have seeped into our systems through our pores and entered our DNA by this point — especially for those of us who grew up in the 1980s....
Read morePompeii
Sony Pictures Rated PG-13 for intense battle sequences, disaster-related action and brief sexual content. Running time: 105 minutes. One and a half stars out of four Is it wrong to root for the volcano? Mount Vesuvius is the most interesting and expressive character of all in “Pompeii,” a mind-numbingly dull...
Read moreRogerEbert.com — Endless Love
My love … there’s only you in my life. And this remake which in no way resembles the 1981 Franco Zeffirelli original. Director and co-writer Shana Feste kept the names the same in adapting this melodramatic story of forbidden teenage love, but she took out all the crazy. My RogerEbert.com...
Read moreWhat the Flick?! — Winter’s Tale
Colin Farrell stars in this batshit-crazy, time-travel romance which has an interior mythology that’s complicated and convoluted but never boring. We all enjoyed saying WTF? this week during our What the Flick?! review....
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