By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Beautifully animated, genuinely funny and unexpectedly touching, the zombie-adventure comedy “ParaNorman” may be the most thoroughly enjoyable all-ages treat of the year. It’s like Halloween candy in August, or maybe an early Christ [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic Easily the most exciting and unexpectedly the most interesting action movie of the summer, “The Bourne Legacy” also is the best Bourne installment ever. This is a two-hours-plus thriller that genuinely thrills. Matt Damon, who starred as  [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles keeps a half-dozen or so plots spinning in “360,” an irresistibly engrossing collection of tales that range from trashy to tragic. From a pragmatic Eastern European prostitute to a ber [...]

By JAMES DAWSON Front Row Features Film Critic “The Watch” turns out to be less than the sum of its slowly moving parts. Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill bring enough star power to this suburban sci-fi silliness that it should have been a comedy Rolex. Instead, the relatively  [...]