Birds of America

I watched this movie and i enjoyed it, I really did. But I've read some comments after watching it and I found that within that movie you shouldn't do that (reading comments), they are too much disturbing. So I got a... Full review

I know a nine is going to seem high. But after a slow start, this movie begins to grab at you. There are moments you feel the boundaries of realism have been touched upon, but somehow it all meshes together and... Full review

I was a little apprehensive going into this movie as Matthew Perry has not had much luck choosing successful films. While his television career has been critically successful with friends and studio 60, he is usually a victim of poor writing.... Full review

Boring attempt at a quirky indie feature with mainstream actors playing anxious wimps or pathological sibs prone to embarrassing their responsible (but loving!) caretakers, including a long suffering wife who wants to conceive but whose dream is perpetually postponed by her... Full review

Saw the premiere of Birds of America at Sundance this year. I picked this movie not cause it sounded great (of course, the Sundance blurb writer could make a Hilary Duff movie sound like Pi), but because Matthew Perry, Hilary... Full review

You might be getting a little tired of movies about dysfunctional families. I know I am. I think I've seen at least three at Sundance this year. But Birds of America manages to break the mold and feel fresh and... Full review

really, really wants you to like it.....Ben Foster and Ginnifer Goodwin are the saving graces of this film, but perhaps a little too caustic in their search to portray their unruly natures.....while the film begins with mild promise, nothing could help this dodo take flight..... ... Full Review

Overall, Birds of America is a nice enough film , but it's kept from its potential to be really good by being a little too trite and formulaic to ever strike that solid chord that would have made it an unforgettable Sundance film. The film has some rough spots; Swank (who's production company was involved in the film as well) feels largely wasted as Laura. ... Full Review

Her most-recent book was the short-story collection Birds of America , which included the unforgettable story People Like That Are the Only People Here , set in the cancer ward of a children's hospital and somehow combining fizzy comedy and... ... Full Article

Later, she recalled telling someone else that it was a novel about chores -- and, later still, that her first novel in 11 years was about a 20-year-old woman because she views 20 as "the universal age of passion." ... Full Article

It's a safe bet that the reading public will never tire of the coming-of-age story. After all, as adults we've all gone through our own. ... Full Article

Tassie, the 20-year-old narrator of this new Lorrie Moore novel, is a quietly jazzy young ironist. She can spot a vein of absurdist black humor in nearly everything - even when her heart is breaking, her trust is betrayed and... ... Full Article

FICTION A Gate at the Stairs. Lorrie Moore. Knopf. 322 pages. $25. Tassie Keltjin, the observant protagonist of Lorrie Moore's comic, moving and ultimately harrowing new novel, is -- like most of us -- easily distracted and emotionally unsettled. ... Full Article

Posted: March 7, 2009 To spend an hour or two with Jhumpa Lahiri is one of the greatest pleasures we can give ourselves as readers. ... Full Article