Steven Rea

Steven Rea has been an Inquirer movie critic since 1992. He was born in London, raised in New York City, and has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Iowa City, Iowa. His column, "On Movies," appears Sundays in Arts & Entertainment, his reviews appear in the Weekend section on Fridays, and his blog, On Movies Online, can be found here. He is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.

He also curates the movie stars and bicycling photo blog, Rides A Bike.

Read Steven's blog On Movies Online
Latest post: Penn State/Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal to be documentarized - 05/23/2012
Email Steven at srea@phillynews.com

Penn State/Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal to be documentarized

Penn State/Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal to be documentarized

'Bernie': True-crime comedy with a Texas drawl - 05/17/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Steven Rea: Known as Bernie to most everyone - and played with just the right combination of earnestness and quirk by Jack Black - he's a skilled mortician who sings in the church, leads the amateur theater troupe, and has a good word to say for everyone.
'Losing Control': Career v. commitment, wrapped in comic absurdity - 05/17/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Steven Rea: If Losing Control has too much of a girl-com TV vibe about it - and it does, replete with wacky pals, bad blind dates, and perilously upbeat music cues - it also has smarts.
'Surviving Progress': Documentary paints picture of civilization headed toward doom - 05/18/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

A wake-up call of epic significance, Surviving Progress is one of those documentaries that everybody should see - and, alas, a documentary that many will dismiss as politically slanted, while others just won't know it's there.
Review: The Dictator - 05/15/2012: By Steven Rea, INQUIRER MOVIE CRITIC

Steven Rea: The man who brought us Borat takes us behind the palace walls of Wadiya, an oil-rich state with a leader who orders up executions the way other folks might order a pizza.
A dog and his people in 'Darling Companion' - 05/10/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Steven Rea: Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion is a shambling and not exactly deep ensemble piece centered on a long-married couple (Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline) and the dog that comes into, and then out of, their lives.
'Dark Shadows': Vampire tale that bleeds retro - 05/10/2012: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Steven Rea: Rip Van Winkle's 20-year snooze is a catnap compared to the time Barnabas Collins has spent buried in the ground, lying in a coffin shut tight with heavy chains.
Kasdan and Kline talk about ‘Darling Companion’ - 05/03/2012: Steven Rea

Kevin Kline and Lawrence Kasdan, actor and writer/director, respectively, have known each other for 32 years now. They met when Kasdan, making a name for himself in Los Angeles as a go-to screenwriter (Steven Spielberg went to him for Raiders of the Lost Ark, George Lucas for Return of the Jedi), was looking for the lead for his directorial debut, the neo-noir Body Heat.
Coming this Week by Steven Rea - 05/03/2012: Steven Rea

BernieJack Black stars as a murderous mortician in this true-crime East Texas tale, with Shirley MacLaine as the much-loathed millionairess victim, and Matthew McConaughey as the D.A. on the case. Dark satire from director Richard Linklater. PG-13 Changing the GameFrom the North Philly hood to the corporate towers of Wall Street —hometown filmmaker Rel Dowdell’s urban morality tale stars Sean Riggs, Tony Todd, Irma P. Hall and Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones. R
Review: Meeting Evil - 05/05/2012: Steven Rea
Summer's must-see movies - 05/03/2012: Gary Thompson

With so many big summer movies to choose from, choices must be made. Here are the films our staff is looking forward to seeing.