Adam Blair

Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg Movie Review: He’s Got His Mojo Working

By Adam Blair | Mar 31, 2017

I should actually recuse myself from reviewing Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg, the Starz documentary debuting March 31, ...

Rules Don’t Apply DVD Review: Warren Beatty’s Overlong Ego Trip

By Adam Blair | Mar 26, 2017

Warren Beatty is both the perfect person and the worst person possible to have made Rules Don't Apply, his concoction ...

Joy a Must See Poster in Black With a Woman Poster

Joy Movie Review: When Real Life is Like a Fairy Tale

By Adam Blair | Feb 21, 2016

David O. Russell's Joy has gotten somewhat lost in the awards season shuffle, and that's a shame. It nabbed only ...

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words Movie Review: Here’s Looking at You, Kid

By Adam Blair | Nov 9, 2015

One of the best moments in Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words is one of the quietest. It's just a ...

The Intern Movie Review: Candy-Coated Faux Feminism at Its Worst

By Adam Blair | Oct 31, 2015

I realize that criticizing a Nancy Meyers movie for being unrealistic is rather like criticizing maple syrup for being sticky. ...

Experimenter Movie Review: We’re All Just Lab Rats in This Maze

By Adam Blair | Oct 11, 2015

The Inquisition. The Terror of the French Revolution. The Soviet gulags. The Nazi death camps. Murdered civil rights workers. Abu ...

Book Review: The Shining: Studies in the Horror Film, Edited by Danel Olson

By Adam Blair | Aug 26, 2015

For a director whose output totaled only about a baker's dozen of feature films, Stanley Kubrick embraced a remarkably wide ...

Every Secret Thing DVD Review: Chilling Crimes and Very Bad Parenting

By Adam Blair | Jul 30, 2015

Straining for psychological depth and taut suspense but reaching only a few notches higher than a Lifetime TV movie, Every ...

Magic Mike XXL Movie Review: Flesh and Fantasy

By Adam Blair | Jul 6, 2015

Well, I know why I wanted to see Magic Mike XXL: hunky guys taking their clothes off at regular intervals ...

Book Review: Madeline Kahn: Being the Music, A Life by William V. Madison

By Adam Blair | May 25, 2015

There are a handful of uniquely talented performers for whom, once or twice or maybe three times in a career, ...

The D Train Movie Review: Star-Struck Straight Guy Goes Off the Rails

By Adam Blair | May 10, 2015

As sociologists, psychologists, and watchers of Buffy the Vampire Slayer well know, high school is a time of acute status ...

Tribeca 2015 Review: Dirty Weekend: What Happens in Albuquerque Stays in Albuquerque

By Adam Blair | Apr 25, 2015

Since his 1997 filmmaking debut with In the Company of Men, the rap on writer/director Neil LaBute is that he's ...

Tribeca 2015 Review: Grandma: Lily Tomlin’s Tour de Force

By Adam Blair | Apr 23, 2015

It's easy to forget just how great a film actress/screen presence Lily Tomlin can be. In part, she's a victim ...

Tribeca Film Festival 2015 Review: The Overnight Is Quasi-Porn Without the Money Shot

By Adam Blair | Apr 21, 2015

It's been two days since I saw The Overnight and I'm still not quite sure what to make of it. ...

Tribeca 2015 Review: A Courtship: Christian Mingle to the Max

By Adam Blair | Apr 20, 2015

Is there an optimal, sure-fire way to find one's absolutely perfect mate? The owners of dating websites imply that their ...

Tribeca 2015 Review: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon

By Adam Blair | Apr 18, 2015

For the purposes of this review, let's accept two axioms. 1.) Nostalgia is both seductive and inevitable, and 2.) Explaining ...

Maps to the Stars Movie Review: Monsters Incorporated

By Adam Blair | Feb 23, 2015

Unsettling and often unpleasant, Maps to the Stars teeters between dark (albeit funny) satire of Hollywood and luridly over-baked melodrama. ...

Adam Blair’s 2014 Movie Roundup

By Adam Blair | Jan 11, 2015

I saw about 30 movies in theaters in 2014. Some are getting tons of attention during awards season, and rightfully ...

Still Alice Movie Review: Going, Going, Gone, Girl

By Adam Blair | Jan 9, 2015

There are a lot of poignant moments in Still Alice, the new movie about the slow but inexorable disappearance of ...

Top Five Movie Review: Genuine Laughs with the Sting of Truth

By Adam Blair | Dec 14, 2014

Perceptive moviegoers know that they can pick up clues about the movie they're about to see by the trailers selected ...

Life Itself (2014) Movie Review: A Fascinating Person Attached to That Thumb

By Adam Blair | Nov 17, 2014

Do you think you know Roger Ebert? Believe me, whatever you know, you know only part of the story. Just ...

Horns Movie Review: Daniel Radcliffe Can’t Handle the Truth

By Adam Blair | Oct 26, 2014

Daniel Radcliffe just can't seem to get away from the supernatural. Harry, er, Daniel's latest dabble into the occult is ...

Begin Again DVD Review: Sorry, Once Was Enough

By Adam Blair | Oct 24, 2014

When a movie is as cliché-ridden and predictable as Begin Again, it's often difficult to identify which is more to ...

The Two Faces of January Movie Review: Sex and Suspense from Three Strong Actors

By Adam Blair | Oct 20, 2014

Patricia Highsmith's novels have been the basis for one of Hitchcock's greatest movies, the 1951 Strangers on a Train, as ...

My Old Lady Movie Review: Paris When it Fizzles

By Adam Blair | Sep 28, 2014

Maggie Smith and Kevin Kline have, collectively, given me hundreds of hours of viewing pleasure on stages and screens large ...

The One I Love Movie Review: Do I Know You?

By Adam Blair | Sep 16, 2014

If you haven't yet seen The One I Love, please consider this article a giant SPOILER ALERT! and read no ...

To Be Takei Movie Review: To Somewhat Boldly Go

By Adam Blair | Aug 18, 2014

If you drew a Venn diagram of target audiences for the documentary To Be Takei, I would be right smack ...

To Be Takei Director Jennifer Kroot: The Past and Present of a Cheerful Bulldozer

By Adam Blair | Aug 14, 2014

The new documentary To Be Takei looks at the fascinating past and exciting present of the one and only Mr. ...

Chad Hanna DVD Review: Henry Fonda Joins the Circus

By Adam Blair | Jul 13, 2014

There are two 1940 movies starring Henry Fonda, both featuring Jane Darwell and the basso-voiced character actor John Carradine, that ...

Book Review: Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris

By Adam Blair | Jul 10, 2014

Five seems to be a lucky number for author Mark Harris. His previous book, Pictures at a Revolution, artfully captured ...

Boyhood’s 12 Years in the Making: Jumping into the Void

By Adam Blair | Jul 8, 2014

That Boyhood, Richard Linklater's “epic of minutia,” had an unconventional production schedule is something of an understatement. For an even ...