Movie Reviews - The New American

Eat Pray Love Fails to Entertain

Directed by Ryan Murphy, Eat Pray Love is a movie adaptation of the New York Times bestseller Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search...

Raven Clabough August 16, 2010

The Expendables: Sly’s So-So Effort

Eric Egan August 15, 2010

The cast of The Expendables is a veritable pantheon of action stars — Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jason Statham, Micky Rourke,...

The Other Guys: Hilarious Satire for Grownup Audiences

Raven Clabough August 7, 2010

If you’re looking for a hilariously inappropriate but original film on which to spend some money, I have three words for you: The...

Charlie St. Cloud: A Film Celebrating Life

Raven Clabough July 31, 2010

Everything about Burr Steven’s Charlie St. Cloud is predictable, except for the spiritual gravity and Christian undertones, rendering an otherwise teen “chick flick”...

Generation Zero

Selwyn Duke July 28, 2010

While I certainly look back with fondness on the “Greatest Generation,” I can’t help but think that the superlative applied to it may...

Salt: Taut and Accidentally Timely Spy Thriller

Eric Egan July 25, 2010

A good spy thriller should accomplish two things — it should thrill and it should intrigue. With taut action sequences and a well-written...

Inception: Sci-fi Thought Thriller

Raven Clabough July 17, 2010

Leonardo DiCaprio does it again with this summer’s new blockbuster hit, Inception. Not everyone will agree with that, however. I contend that there...

Despicable Me and the Plot to Steal the Moon

Raven Clabough July 10, 2010

For parents interested in a pleasant way to pass the afternoon with their children, consider newly released Despicable Me (that is, if Toy...

The Last Airbender: Visually Stunning Failure

Eric Egan July 6, 2010

The Last Airbender is M. Night Shyamalan's ninth directorial effort and is an imaginative and wonderfully visual film — as long as no...

Another Twilight Saga in Celluloid — Twilight

Raven Clabough July 3, 2010

Team Edward vs. Team Jacob: Who will prevail? Viewers learn the answer to that question in the latest movie version of the Twilight:...

TSA Catches More Flak

Bob Adelmann June 24, 2010

The new DVD Please Remove Your Shoes, to be released on July 1, was reviewed by Scott Mayerowitz at ABC News, who asked...

Toy Story 3 Might Be the Best of the Trilogy

Raven Clabough June 20, 2010

Toy Story 3 proves that with great writing and endearing characterization, success is achievable, even after 11 years. The enthralling finale to the...