Movie Reviews - The New American

Conviction: The Movie and the True Story

Conviction tells the real-life story of a single mother named Betty Ann Waters, who tended bar while acquiring her GED, bachelor’s degree, and...

Raven Clabough October 23, 2010

Hereafter Poses Life’s Toughest Question

Raven Clabough October 22, 2010

Hereafter effectively brings spirituality to real-life events, ranging from the now-historic 2004 Indonesian tsunami to the terrorist attacks of a London train station....

Red: Star-studded Cast Feels Crunched

Eric Egan October 17, 2010

Retirement. The word can conjure visions of sweet oases of rest and relaxation between games of golf and lazy morning bouts with crossword...

Secretariat Entertains Despite Flaws

Eric Egan October 10, 2010

Secretariat, directed by Randall Wallace, opens with Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery, quoting a Bible verse from Job. In the verse, God speaks of...

“It’s Kind of a Funny Story” Is Kind of Funny — and Profound

Raven Clabough October 9, 2010

It’s Kind of a Funny Story is by far one of the better films to be produced in recent years. But viewers beware...

The Social Network: A Picture of the Face Behind Facebook

Eric Egan October 3, 2010

In early 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded Thefacebook.com in a dorm room at the not-so-humble nursery of the elite, Harvard University. The world, for...

Legend of the Guardians: 3D Tour De Force

Eric Egan September 27, 2010

Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, directed by Zack Snyder, is an animated film based upon the first three books in...

Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Raven Clabough September 25, 2010

Watching Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is analogous to viewing James Cameron’s 1997 hit, The Titanic. Both films generate the same sense of...

Alpha and Omega: Idaho Wolf Relocation Gets a Hollywood Nod

Eric Egan September 20, 2010

Alpha and Omega features the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panetierre, Danny Glover, and Dennis Hopper (in one of his last performances) and...

M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil

Raven Clabough September 18, 2010

There are two categories of movie-goers: those who love M. Night Shyamalan’s films, and those who despise them. I count myself among those...

“Resident Evil” and Its 3D “Afterlife”

Eric Egan September 13, 2010

Resident Evil: Afterlife is written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and is the fourth in a series of films based on the...

Overdose: Video Exposé on Bailout Bubble

Thomas R. Eddlem September 5, 2010

The independent British exposé film Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis released last spring has been made available to Internet viewers on YouTube for...