CARA BERITAWA

Sunday, December 26, 2010

WINTER'S BONE (2010)

RATING: 3/5Winner of the prestigious Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, Debra Granik's WINTER'S BONE has quickly become one of the critics' darlings among the film festival circuits. On the outlook,...

THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010)

RATING: 4/5When the project was announced that a semi-biographical movie about Facebook is greenlighted, I was pretty skeptical at first. But given the fact that the movie, entitled as THE SOCIAL NETWORK, the unique combination of talents involving screenwriter...

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 (2010)

RATING: 3/5Dark theme grows progressively darker at each installment, and this is evident for this seventh and first-half of the final chapter of HARRY POTTER series, entitled HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1. Once again, director David Yates...

INCEPTION (2010)

RATING: 4/5Up until now, all of the recent summer 2010 movies failed to live up their original expectations (e.g. IRON MAN 2). Excluding amongst the most satisfying summer movie of the year which is TOY STORY 3, the other one here is Christopher Nolan's...

WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (2010)

RATING: 2/5An unlikely sequel that is wholly unnecessary. Back in 1987, Oliver Stone's WALL STREET defined the era of its time which also included Michael Douglas' Oscar-winning memorable role as the oily Gordon Gecko and his phenomenally popular catchphrase,...

TRON: LEGACY (2010)

RATING: 2/5When the original TRON (1982) first released in the theaters back then, it was a box-office flop. But critics has heavily regarded that TRON was a groundbreaking sci-fi movie in term of its visual medium, though it's very dated by today's...

Saturday, December 25, 2010

SOMEWHERE (2010)

RATING: 3/5Billed by some as a companion piece to the 2003's minimalism breakthrough LOST IN TRANSLATION, Sofia Coppola's fourth feature, SOMEWHERE, sees her returning to her familiar filmmaking root that made her famous in the first place after the...

BURIED (2010)

RATING: 3.5/5Dig this out: a movie that set entirely in a coffin. It's as simple as that, and it wouldn't be a surprise if there's (most) people out there end up thinking it's impossible to make a movie with this kind of setting. But Spanish director...

AND SOON THE DARKNESS (2010)

RATING: 1/5Released in theaters with little fanfare that flies under most people's radar, AND SOON THE DARKNESS is nothing more than just another low-budget little thriller that is all about cliched formula. Despite being headlined by recognizable talents...

Sunday, December 19, 2010

RABBIT HOLE (2010)

RATING: 4/5When comes to explicit material as proven in such controversial movies by the likes of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2001) and SHORTBUS (2006), director John Cameron Mitchell is certainly no strangers to that. However, his third feature comes...

THE TOURIST (2010)

RATING: 1/5Boring is the right word to describe entirely for a supposedly ambitious movie called THE TOURIST. It does sounds impossible because on paper, THE TOURIST seems to be a shoo-in for box-office favorites -- a classy genre movie in the vein of...

THE CHILD'S EYE (2010)

RATING: 1/5Like it or not, it seems that the Pang brothers still haven't grown tired of their increasingly inferior "EYE" horror series. After beginning life with their 2002's phenomenally successful THE EYE, which starred the incomparable Angelica Lee...

Thursday, December 9, 2010

MY SOUL TO TAKE (2010)

RATING: 1/5It's been five years since the undisputed master of horror, Wes Craven has directed a movie. His last feature was the 2005's RED EYE, a radical departure out of the norm but Craven does know how to spin a nail-biting suspenseful thriller....

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

FASTER (2010)

RATING: 2/5With a title like FASTER, a kick-ass poster, and an equally captivating tagline that reads "Slow Justice is No Justice", you can almost bet that Dwayne Johnson's long-awaited return to an action-packed role after a short stint of Disney comedies...

THE WARRIOR'S WAY (2010)

RATING: 1/5At the first glance, THE WARRIOR'S WAY sounds like a fun movie not to be missed -- a comic-book like structure that mixes with classic samurai tale, spaghetti western, and a dash of Tod Browning's FREAKS (1932) thrown in for a mishmash of...

DEVIL (2010)

RATING: 2/5Poor M. Night Shyamalan. Whatever he touches these days turned to box-office poison. His recent highly-anticipated big-budget summer movie extravaganza, THE LAST AIRBENDER, was heavily pounded by critics and viewers alike and the box-office...