Latest by Christy Lemire
Published on August 19, 2013 - Page 9
AP Movie Critic LOS ANGELES — You’d probably come up with five entirely different choices. But here are my picks for five great movies about...
Published on May 28, 2013 - Page 16
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
Associated Press Movie Critic
LOS ANGELES — The thriller “Black Rock” is about a trio of childhood friends (Kate Bosworth, Lake...
Published on May 24, 2013 - Page 7
“Daring” isn’t a word you would use to describe 2011’s “The Hangover Part II,” the disappointingly lazy, beat-for-beat rehash of the wild and wildly...
Published on May 10, 2013 - Page 7
If any piece of classic American literature should be depicted on film with wildly decadent and boldly inventive style, it’s “The Great Gatsby.”...
Published on April 12, 2013 - Page 7
The first image you see in “The Place Beyond the Pines” is of Ryan Gosling’s shirtless torso, ripped and tatted atop a skin-tight pair of leather...
Published on April 5, 2013 - Page 7
LOS ANGELES — A 15-year-old girl from a fundamentalist Mormon family hears rock music for the first time and miraculously finds she’s pregnant in “...
Published on April 2, 2013 - Page 11
AP Movie Critic LOS ANGELES — Elle Fanning does some incredible work as a teenager caught up in the anti-nukes activism of 1960s London in the...
Published on April 1, 2013 - Page 17
LOS ANGELES — Stage and screen veteran Kristin Chenoweth plays a hard-charging, high-powered executive in the dark indie comedy “Family Weekend” — a...
Published on March 29, 2013 - Page 9
If a big, dumb action movie knows it’s a big, dumb action movie and revels in that fact, is that preferable to a big, dumb action movie making the...
Published on March 22, 2013 - Page 9
Harmony Korine seems to want it both ways, all day, with “Spring Breakers,” his super-stylized descent into a sunbaked hell where bikini-clad, gun-...