Articles by Travis Mackenzie Hoover

City of Men

Paolo Morelli

PUBLISHED Feb 29, 2008

Compared to the widely celebrated City of God, this half-baked not-quite-sequel seems dull, earnest and technically clumsy. But considering...

The Counterfeiters

Stefan Ruzowitzky

PUBLISHED Feb 29, 2008

There are a few gestures towards originality in this unusually themed Holocaust drama but the filmmakers don’t have the courage to pull the...

The Joan Crawford Collection, Vol. 2

PUBLISHED Feb 29, 2008

Hide those wire hangers, kids, ’cause Joan Crawford is back with five more notable features to haunt your dreams. And as the films move fro...

Maxed Out

James D. Scurlock

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2008

By now, most people know the horror of credit card debt beyond what most consider reasonable. But despite some appeals to melodrama, this c...

Some Girls

Michael Hoffman

PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2008

Some Girls is all too aware of its risqué subject matter. It’s the story of a young man (Patrick Dempsey) who visits his sort-of girlfriend...

Caramel

Nadine Labaki

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2008

As a Lebanese Steel Magnolias, Caramel is no better or worse than any American version of Steel Magnolias. In one sense, it has the drop on...

Jumper

Doug Liman

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2008

You can’t say that Doug Liman is a genius, but you can say that he makes tight little action packages that hang together fairly well. This...

Kaoru Ikeya

The Ants

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2008

Waichi Okimura was a very unlucky man. Not only did he have to participate in Japan’s brutality in WWII but after the war, he was recycled,...