Seattle Movie Reviews

Body of Lies: The War on Terror Hits Leo!

A new kind of war movie for a new kind of war, Body of Lies is about the War on Terror as it is being waged on the ground, in the air, but most... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: October 08, 2008

Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story: The Guy Who Brought You Willie Horton

Just about everyone interviewed for Stefan Forbes’ fascinating documentary about Lee Atwater—whether Democrat or Republican pols,... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 08, 2008

Call + Response: Slavery Is Bigger Than Illegal Downloading?

Somebody's got to pick up where Bono left off, right? A Bay Area musician and Live Aid baby, Justin Dillon recently discovered human trafficking,... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 08, 2008

The Express: A Spot of Glory Amid Our Current Terrible Football Season

The story of Syracuse running back Ernie Davis—the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, in 1961, two years before he succumbed... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 08, 2008

The Grocer's Son: A Red State-Blue State Divide in France

Director Eric Guirado's The Grocer's Son is a small, self-assured film that moves at its own pace, always staying one graceful step ahead of its... More>>

By Michelle Orange

Published: October 08, 2008

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway Has a Filthy Mouth

Those who believe that Jonathan Demme went all soft with Philadelphia and never recovered may not be reassured by his latest movie, an ensemble... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 08, 2008

PICK Secrecy: More Bad News About Our Government

Few Americans would argue with Winston Churchill's dictum: "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of... More>>

By Jean Oppenheimer

Published: October 08, 2008

What We Do Is Secret: The Germs Are Resurrected

In my day, you had to visit a dozen Blockbusters to find a ratty copy of The Decline of Western Civilization. Now the story of Darby Crash and... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: October 08, 2008

Inside the Fence

A regional festival sticks within its boundaries.

You wish sometimes that cities could swap film festivals every few years. It'd be a cultural exchange—SIFF for Sundance, Telluride for... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: October 01, 2008

Allah Made Me Funny: “Bomb Me if You’ve Heard This One Before….”

For the three Muslim-American stand-up comics showcased in this concert film, terror is something more than stage fright. Mohammed "Mo" Amer and... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 01, 2008

Appaloosa: Viggo Mortensen Will Shoot You Now

Virgil Cole (Ed Harris) and his sidekick Everett Hitch (Viggo Mortensen) are the new marshal and deputy facing down a posse of bad guys in... More>>

By Chuck Wilson

Published: October 01, 2008

Blindness: Somebody Get Julianne Moore Out of This Movie!

The most recent example of bleak chic, Fernando Meirelles' mostly harrowing adaptation of José Saramago's international bestseller... More>>

Published: October 01, 2008

PICK My Father, My Lord: A Boy Is Torn Between Faith and Family

Like Amos Gitai's 1999 Kadosh, Israeli writer-director David Volach's first feature has scores to settle with ultra-Orthodox Judaism, especially... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: October 01, 2008

Flash of Genius: Ford Motor Co. Declares War on Greg Kinnear

The big-screen version of inventor Robert Kearns' legal battles with Ford and Chrysler—both of whom nicked his intermittent windshield... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 01, 2008

PICK A Girl Cut in Two: Claude Chabrol Isn’t Done With Adultery and Murder

Claude Chabrol, who should soon be shooting his 70th feature, is at once wildly prolific and utterly faithful—at least to the conventions... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 01, 2008

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People: Simon Pegg Is No Cary Grant

Based on Toby Young's tome about his spectacular fuckups and flame-out at Vanity Fair, Robert Weide's big-screen version is sitcom-drab. Simon... More>>

Published: October 01, 2008

I.O.U.S.A.: Our National Debt Is Just as Bad as the Mortgage Mess

Both a handy election primer and a bowel-rattling cry of fiscal doom, I.O.U.S.A. is an Inconvenient Truth for the debt crisis, a plainly mapped... More>>

By Michelle Orange

Published: October 01, 2008

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist: We Expect Better of Michael Cera

Peter Sollett's 2002 Raising Victor Vargas remains among the most pointed, poignant, and joyful films about teen love ever made. Everything about... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: October 01, 2008

Religulous: Bill Maher Wipes Ass on Bible, Blows Nose on Koran

Bill Maher's one-man stand-up attack on religious fundamentalism is a dog that has more bark than bite—a skeptical, secular-humanist... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: October 01, 2008

Sukiyaki Western Django: Quentin Tarantino Cameos in Latest Takashi Miike Gonzo-Fest

Whether it's score-settling culture theft, a fever dream of interlinked Wild-West mythology, or simply a company casserole of way-cool cinema,... More>>

Published: October 01, 2008

Still Life: Old China Is Made New and Strange

The world's oldest civilization is in some respects the world's newest. And 37-year-old filmmaker Jia Zhangke, the preeminent cine-chronicler of... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: September 24, 2008

Choke: For Chuck Palahniuk Fans Only

There's a whole lotta fucking going on in Choke, Clark Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's first-person novel about a sex addict named Victor... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: September 24, 2008

PICK The Corporal’s Diary: A Bellingham Soldier’s Final Days in Iraq

The name Jonathan Santos has been mostly forgotten by Northwest readers, though he briefly made news in the fall of 2004. As Rick Anderson wrote... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: September 24, 2008

The Duchess: Keira Knightley Is Such a Slut

Based on Amanda Foreman's biography of Georgiana Spencer, the Duchess of Devonshire, Saul Dibb's costume drama tells how Princess Diana's... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: September 24, 2008

Humboldt County: Like The Graduate on Pot

If you transplanted Weeds to far northern California's "lost coast," where pot growers and meth-tweaking rednecks exist in mossy discord,... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: September 24, 2008

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