Legend movie review: badfellas
Tom Hardy is fab, but this is GoodFellas-lite, depicting violent sociopaths as glamorous, even amusing, and lacking all understanding of what made them tick.
black comedy
The Suicide Theory movie review: to die or not to die
Guilt, grief, and forgiveness get wrapped up in a Twilight Zone-ish shroud of fate in this downbeat trifle of a crime drama.
The Little Death (aka A Funny Kind of Love) and The Overnight movie review: sex tragi-comedies
Hooray for movies about sex and love that aren’t about teenagers trying to get laid but adults still trying to figure it all out.
Slow West movie review: dark horseplay
Michael Fassbender is never not worth watching, and his unique blend of cynical smarts and weary humor is perfectly suited to this bitterly funny road trip.
Everyone’s Going to Die movie review: black comedy among the blues
Strange and wonderful and unclassifiable in the best way, this is an unexpectedly touching and oddly funny platonic romance. Sort of.
Welcome to Me movie review: the ultimate selfie
A sort of miracle. A black comedy about a not-well woman saving herself is a savage satire on a not-well world that doesn’t realize anything’s wrong.
Entourage movie review: say goodbye to Hollywood
Hollywood does kinda make sense now: it’s a neverending frat party of talentless rich bastards.
Results movie review: emotional workout
Bracingly off-kilter, a sort of anti rom-com that sends up a cultlike subculture while embracing the full, curious humanity of those who live in it.
The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) movie review: cruel intentions
I have a terrible suspicion that filmmaker Tom Six would be delighted to learn that someone in the real world had tried to create a human centipede.
Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) movie review: revenge served hot
This anthology of six bleakly funny shorts is a mixed bag that ranges from anticlimactic but intriguing to “Oh my God, did I just laugh out loud at that?”
