The yammering about "Oscar gold" and Denzel Washington's potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can only embarrass a fine character… Continue reading
The trailer for this gargantuan adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 novel, directed by two Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer, looks less like a preview than… Continue reading
It is difficult for residents of these sprawling United States to regard anything within the snug British Isles as truly remote, but Ben Rivers' debut… Continue reading
Pope John Paul II made hell briefly unfashionable, but the administration of Benedict XVI has retrieved Gehenna from metaphorical downgrade into the more familiar lake… Continue reading
What a strange thing for an actor to have been rehearsing one's decline and death for so very long! Eastwood is 82; he was wasting… Continue reading
The bigger and better mousetraps of Paul W.S. Anderson
Julie Delpy's sequel to her 2007 2 Days in Paris calls back many of the same characters and more than a few of the same… Continue reading
A documentary composed of vignettes of Europe by night, shot as though through the eyes of some inquisitive, unobtrusive, silent ghost, Abendland is fringed with… Continue reading
Screening the history of bootlegging in urban America led to the invention of a genre—the gangster film—but moviegoers have seen little of the hills and… Continue reading
Is there something intrinsic to these wide-net, "We're all connected" ensemble movies that makes their authors think they need to address every human conundrum in… Continue reading
At one point in Killer Joe, based on Tracy Letts' play, a hideously funny tabloid noir set on the outskirts of Dallas County, Chris Smith… Continue reading
Like a great number of films dealing with supernatural and extraterrestrial phenomena, Red Lights is a thriller in which suspense depends on keeping both viewer… Continue reading
People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes, one character says in Todd Solondz's significantly titled 2004 film Palindromes—an observation… Continue reading
In a gymnasium, a clandestine four-person group meets to discuss its name. One member suggests "Alps," explaining: "The mountains of the Alps cannot be replaced… Continue reading
As the general run of action films blithely defies the laws of gravity and consequence, what a pleasure to find a movie as grounded, physically… Continue reading
We first encounter the subject of Crazy Eyes' character study mixing his drinks while damning the glittering void of L.A. from the privileged vantage of… Continue reading
The "name" connected to Lovely Molly is that of director Eduardo Sánchez, one of the perpetrators of 1999's Blair Witch Project hoax, a marketing coup… Continue reading
