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This section is home to columns from our chief movie reviewer, Chuck Vinch. Not sure if the latest arrival at the googleplex is worth seeing? Before you go, read Chuck’s reviews. If you’re in the mood to camp out on the couch instead, check out our reviews of the latest DVDs.

Chuck Vinch’s movie reviews


  • Muddled menagerie
    Pity the poor animated filmmakers who don’t work for Pixar — forever aspiring, if not perspiring, to match that studio’s renowned brand of magic.
  • Women at war
    Near the end of “Lioness,” a new documentary in the PBS “Independent Lens” series, an Iraq war veteran talks about the emotional toll exacted by the act of sighting down the...
  • Gripping ‘Glory’
    The cop drama is one of the most well-worn genres in all of film. So many movies about the Boys in Blue have come and gone that concocting truly novel story lines is almost futile.
  • Payneful adaptation
    If, like me, you’ve been waiting half of forever for a film based on a video game to transcend its wellspring in some significant way, I have news!
  • Movie review: ‘City of Ember,’ 2½ stars
    Adventure movies for kids are hit-or-miss; keeping it moderately entertaining without resorting to poopie, booger or flatulence jokes is a Hollywood skill in short supply.
  • Old-fashioned Old West
    In many ways, “Appaloosa” is an utterly conventional Western straight from our gauzily romanticized image of an Old West where men were men, guns were loud and women of loose virtue were...
  • ‘Miracle at St. Anna’ falls short
    When Spike Lee publicly chastised Clint Eastwood for failing to include a single African-American face in his Iwo Jima epic, “Flags of Our Fathers,” and Eastwood told Lee, in effect, to...
  • Film review: ‘Lakeview Terrace,’ 2½ stars
    In the history of film, no actor has ever given a malevolent glare better than Samuel L. Jackson.
  • Burn after viewing
    In recent years, Hollywood has taken the bait-and-switch to soaring new heights when it comes to movie trailers. It’s gotten so you can be forgiven for wondering if the trailer you saw...
  • Film Review: ‘Traitor,’ 3 stars
    All habitual film fans have a list of actors whom they’ll go to see even if the movie in question is outside their usual happy zone.
  • Car wreck
    In the postindustrial wreckage of the not-too-distant future, the U.S. economy is on fumes, unemployment is at record levels, and the teeming masses must be fed lots of raw meat to keep them sated...
  • Film Review: ‘Tropic Thunder,’ 4 stars
    It’s an immutable law of Hollywood that each summer season ends up being defined in large part by one particular silly-funny comedy classic.
  • Review: ‘Pineapple Express’ smells like a hit
    The career of James Franco has always struck me as a classic example of hype over heft.
  • Film Review: ‘X-Files: I Want to Believe’
    “The X-Files” was one of the few TV series that I have ever gone out of my way to see each week. So I badly wanted to believe that the new film “X-Files: I Want to Believe”...
  • Heart of darkness
    A posthumous Oscar nod? Don’t rule it out — the late Heath Ledger is just that freakyscarygood as the Joker in “The Dark Knight,” the second chapter in the Nolan...
  • Top 10 of ’07
    The year just past was a curiously tepid one. Although the movie industry looks like it will end up with a healthy box-office gross, the number of movies that caused measurable, sustained excitement...

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