World Voice News

Frank Ochieng World Voice News May 5, 2008 3/4 ...absorbing, mysterious, lyrical and distinctively titillating...a moody masterpiece that is thrillingly alarming...[a] tale of wandering hedonism and anguish Go to Full Review The Tree of Life (2008) 48% 50%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Mar 3, 2008 4/4 Utterly engrossing and captivating in its inquisitive scope. Provocative and polarizing, Taxi invites us to eavesdrop on a movement of mistrust and mischievous mayhem Go to Full Review Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) 100% 90%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Feb 19, 2008 2/4 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins feels like a rudimentary retread of previously outrageous "black attack" farces... needlessly cluttered, unfocused and pointless... Go to Full Review Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) 23% 63%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Jan 20, 2008 2/4 [A] pointless payday for director Khourie's banal blank check comedy...a straining pseudo-hysterical heist flick that has all the giddy appeal of an empty bank draft. Go to Full Review Mad Money (2008) 22% 48%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Dec 15, 2007 3.5/4 Wagner's penetrating narrative is poetically stimulating in its smart approach to its dialogue-driven excellence and standout performances. Go to Full Review Starting Out in the Evening (2007) 89% 70%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Dec 7, 2007 2/4 Synthetically dull, manipulative and emotionally clunky, Baumbach's mawkish melodrama is a pretentious and garrulous character study that sits idly in its moping gibberish. Go to Full Review Margot at the Wedding (2007) 51% 40%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Dec 6, 2007 3/4 Cunningly perceptive and hip in its irresistible skepticism about the comforts and uncertainties of love, Juno is enchantingly bright and breezy in its effecting resonance. Go to Full Review Juno (2007) 93% 88%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Nov 7, 2007 3/4 Absorbingly touching and terrifying, A Mighty Heart is an intimate film but has the gutsy and reflective ingredients of sorrow, introspection and outrage. Go to Full Review A Mighty Heart (2007) 79% 70%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Nov 4, 2007 2/4 A spelling bee. A busy bee. A killer bee. But a Seinfeld bee? Sorry Jerry, your hapless honey-seeking hero doesn't create much of an animated buzz. Go to Full Review Bee Movie (2007) 49% 53%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Nov 2, 2007 3/4 American Gangster dares to look in the menacing mirror and reflect the scabrous priorities that define some handsomely yet disillusion others hauntingly. Go to Full Review American Gangster (2007) 81% 84%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Nov 1, 2007 1.5/4 Stultifying in its pseudo-sensationalistic schlock, this numbingly and nightmarish narrative has no legitimate creepy conviction beyond flexing its meaningless, morose muscles Go to Full Review Saw IV (2007) 19% 62%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Nov 1, 2007 2.5/4 Heartwarming, quirky and quietly affecting...the overall package is peppered with an easy-going dosage of reflective schmaltz...warm, inviting and actively spirited... Go to Full Review Dan in Real Life (2007) 65% 69%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Oct 23, 2007 2/4 ...housing top-notch actors and their hefty paychecks but nothing else beyond the obviousness of the melodramatic malarkey it spouts with empty conviction. Go to Full Review Rendition (2007) 46% 62%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Oct 23, 2007 3/4 [A] tortured morality play that takes place on the salacious sidewalks where bluebloods and bombastic blue-collared souls equally pound the pavement in cynical unity. Go to Full Review Gone Baby Gone (2007) 94% 86%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Oct 20, 2007 2.5/4 Bleak, bombastic and belligerent, Slade's blood-busting bohemians will indeed take a caustic chunk out of your imaginative horrifying souls. Go to Full Review 30 Days of Night (2007) 51% 56%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Oct 20, 2007 3/4 Surprisingly, this insightful tearjerker is padded with expressive layers well beyond the average made-for-television sentiments because of the penetrating performances. Go to Full Review Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) 65% 73%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Oct 20, 2007 1.5/4 Let's face it, folks...we need another repetitive spoof movie like a piglet needs dirty fingernails...never registers beyond aping its lazy connect-the-dots jocularity. Go to Full Review The Comebacks (2007) 10% 33%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Oct 15, 2007 2/4 Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob. Go to Full Review The Final Season (2007) 26% 67%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Oct 12, 2007 3/4 Lyrical and reflective, Married is an entertaining inquiry into that everlasting hunt for elusive marital bliss and the empty-hearted casualties that are all too familiar with its unpredictability. Go to Full Review Why Did I Get Married? (2007) 48% 78%

Frank Ochieng World Voice News Oct 11, 2007 2/4 A sluggishly regurgitation of the noteworthy 70's-style cop dramas. The nocturnal naughtiness behind Gray's mean streets saga begs for a compelling ounce of creative daylight Go to Full Review We Own the Night (2007) 57% 61%