The Final Take with Parker Mott

Now In Theatres

Another Earth – 2.5 stars (see it)
Crazy, Stupid, Love – 2.5 stars (rent it)
Cowboys & Aliens – 2 stars (skip it)

New on DVD

Trust – 3.5 stars
Source Code – 2.5 stars
Winter In Wartime – 2 stars

Other writings

TIFF 11 (10 films to see)
Hotel Rwanda – 3.5 stars
Wassup Rockers – 3 stars

Movie Pick of the Week: Another Earth
“If Another Earth does succeed it is in Cahill’s odd way of encapsulating us. The film is slow, but it knows why and handles its pace by touching several notes both surreal and, well, down to earth.”

Now In Theatres

Soul Surfer – 2 stars (skip it)
Winnie the Pooh – 2.5 stars (rent it)
The Princess of Montpensier – 2 stars (skip it)
Submarine – 3 stars (see it)
Friends With Benefits – 3 stars (see it)
Captain America: The First Avenger – 2.5 stars (rent it)

Now on DVD

Arthur – 3 stars (see it)
No Strings Attached – 2.5 stars (rent it)
Limitless – 2.5 stars (rent it)
Life During Wartime – 3 stars (see it)

Movie Pick of the Week: Friends With Benefits
DVD Pick of the Week: Life During Wartime

Contemporary

Horrible Bosses – 2.5 stars (see it)
Cave of Forgotten Dreams – 3.5 stars (see it)
Harry Potter 7.2 – 3 stars (see it)
The Trip – 3 stars (see it)

Classic
Kids – 3.5 stars (see it)

Movie Pick of the Week: Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Harry Potter 7.2
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a great documentary that is a landmark because it finds a worthy purpose for the misbegotten 3D. Yet, Harry Potter 7.2 deserves to be witnessed because there lies the end of a franchise. Let’s shed some tears this week, preferably not in 3D though.

DVD Pick of the Week: Rango
“[Rango] pummels through enough tedious conventions that we can appreciate it as an analysis of an ugly little lionheart adorable in perspective to his inner specie. I liked Rango. I believed in Rango.”

Contemporary
Life In A Day – 3 stars (see it)
The Demonstrator – Theatre
Even the Rain – 3 stars (see it)
Larry Crowne – 1.5 stars (skip it)

Classic
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! – 2 stars

Movie Pick of the Week: Life In A Day
“[In Life In A Day] parallels are formed, suggesting that human beings share genuine feelings, aspirations, and – most obviously – the curiosity to capture the day in their life.”

DVD Pick of the Week: Of Gods and Men
“It is not quite a masterpiece, but for once a film [Of Gods and Men] explains the life of religious characters not through their perfections, way of worship, or god-like passions, but their humanity. This is a humanist movie.”

Contemporary
Trollhunter – 2.5 stars (rent it)
Trust – 3.5 stars (see it)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon – 1 star (skip it)

Classic
Beware of A Holy Whore – 3.5 stars
Manderlay – 2.5 stars

Movie Pick of the Week: Trust
“Schwimmer, like directors Noah Baumbach and Sydney Pollack, steps away from technical exercise and frames the camera modestly on the characters. This is a director who knows he has the right material and allows his actors to engage in it.”

Bad Teacher – 1.5 stars (skip it)
I Am Number Four – 1.5 stars (skip it)
Season of the Witch – 2 stars (skip it)
X-Men: First Class – 2.5 stars (rent it)
The Art of Getting By – 3 stars (see it)
Green Lantern – 2 stars (skip it)
The Tree of Life – 4 stars (see it)
The Bang Bang Club – 2.5 stars (rent it)
Hall Pass – 2 stars (skip it)
Cold Weather – 2.5 stars (rent it)
Stake Land – 3 stars (see it)
Le Quattro Volte (The Four Times) – 3.5 stars (see it)

Movie Pick of the Week: The Tree of Life