KCRW's Film Reviews

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 The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a biweekly column for the paper as well. He has worked for The New York Times the New York Herald Tribune and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and his freelance writing has appeared in The New Yorker The New York Times Magazine the Los Angeles Times Magazine Playboy GQ and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for television; his scripts include The Boy In the Plastic Bubble and several episodes of Law & Order. Joe is a founding member of the National Society of Film Critics and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.

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  WALL-E
  Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:44:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews WALL-E.

  
  
  
  
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  Kit Kittredge; Get Smart; The Love Guru
  Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:44:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, Get Smart and The Love Guru.

  
  
  
  
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  The Incredible Hulk; The Happening
  Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:44:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews The Incredible Hulk and The Happening.

  
  
  
  
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  You Don't Mess with the Zohan; Mongol; Kung Fu Panda
  Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:44:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Mongol, and Kung Fu Panda.

  
  
  
  
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  The Black Dahlia; The U.S. vs. John Lennon
  Sat, 31 May 2008 16:45:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  
  
  
  
  
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  Telluride Film Festival
  Sat, 31 May 2008 16:45:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  This week, Joe Morgenstern reviews this year's annual Telluride Film Festival.
  

  
  
  
  
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  Premonition; The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  Sat, 31 May 2008 16:33:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  Anyone who?s seen the awful trailer for ?Premonition? is bound to have premonitions about the movie. After seeing the movie, I have postmonitions about Sandra Bullock (how could she have done it?) and her hapless filmmakers (how could they have done it so badly?), plus one admonition: See this feeble fiasco only if you?re in the mood for ?Groundhog Day? without the laughs.

  
  
  
  
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  Once
  Sat, 31 May 2008 16:22:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  It takes all of ten seconds for John Carney?s new movie ?Once? to announce itself as something special. A handsome young street  musician in Dublin raises his voice in song, then raises it higher 
  with heart-stopping fervor. When a mysteriously endearing young woman stops to interrogate him about his music ? she turns out to be a musician too -- the movie reveals itself as something magical.

  
  
  
  
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  Sex and the City
  Fri, 30 May 2008 14:44:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews Sex and the City.

  
  
  
  
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  Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  Fri, 23 May 2008 14:44:00 EDT Author: podmaster@kcrw.org (Joe Morgenstern)
  

  Joe Morgenstern, film critic for the Wall Street Journal, reviews Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.