Kurt Loder is a New York writer who also hosts the SiriusXM interview show True Stories. His most recent book is a film-review collection called The Good, the Bad and the Godawful.
Kurt Loder
Latest from Kurt Loder
The Great Lost Rolling Stones Documentary Is Now a Museum Piece
The odd fate of rock's rawest footage
Paranormal Activity 4
A surprisingly creepy and effective new addition to the horror series.
Seven Psychopaths and Sinister
A dose of bloody comic violence and a genuinely creepy horror flick.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A movie that makes teenage isolation and high-school torment seem like fresh subjects again
The Master
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix are great in a movie that's not about Scientology.
Bachelorette and The Words
Kirsten Dunst out of her element, Bradley Cooper lost in a bad book.
Side by Side
Does the rise of digital movies mean the death of film? Keanu Reeves investigates.
Ruby Sparks and The Watch
An indie gem with Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan, and Hollywood yocks with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn.
The Dark Knight Rises
A surprisingly limp conclusion to Christopher Nolan's celebrated Batman trilogy.
Easy Money and The Imposter
A Swedish crime thriller and a dark documentary about a human chameleon
Magic Mike and The Amazing Spider-Man
Channing Tatum in the flesh, Andrew Garfield in a mega-budget mess.
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and To Rome with Love
An anemic muddle and a good Woody Allen.
Snow White and the Huntsman
A CGI confection spun around the bones of the well-known fairy tale.
Men in Black III and Moonrise Kingdom
Josh Brolin reinvigorates the sci-fi series, Wes Anderson stays true to form.
The Samaritan and Lovely Molly
A crime thriller from Samuel L. Jackson, a horror show from the director of The Blair Witch Project
The Dictator
The gags are more exhausted than Gaddafi's regime as Sacha Baron Cohen graduates from documentary punking to standard comedy.
Headhunters, The Five-Year Engagement, and The Raven
Love and laughs and quite a few corpses
The Cabin in the Woods and Lockout
Teen terror reinvented, another dystopian future regurgitated.
Wanderlust and Bullhead
Neo-hippies and dangerous hormones.
