Bel Ami (review)
Welcome to the costume-drama equivalent of Project X, celebrating misogyny and male sociopathy as just the way things are, and what else can ya expect from the world?
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Black Gold (aka Day of the Falcon) (review)
There’s a lot of golden-age Hollywood in this tale of the earliest days, in the 1930s, of the Arab oil kingdoms. Some of it is just plain fun; some of it is cornball old-fashioned…
In the Land of Blood and Honey (review)
Written and directed by actress Angelina Jolie, there is nevertheless nothing “Hollywood” about this film: it stars local actors and is in the local languages, and it shies not one whit from the horrors of the Bosnian civil war.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (review)
I appreciate that many people have many problems with this movie, but I confess that I don’t quite understand them…
A Better Life (review)
This is a gentle, honest, heartfelt film, but it does not have much to offer beyond an earnest respect for a segment of American society that is too often derided. Not that that is not a good thing…
The Woman in the Fifth (review)
Oh, deliver us, please, from tiresome male fantasies…
The Woman in Black (review)
I consider it a tremendous mark in favor of The Woman in Black that not once during its running time did I think, Hey, wait, wouldn’t Harry Potter have a spell to deal with this?
Big Miracle (review)
A surprisingly pleasant dramatization of the true story told through the eyes of the TV news reporter who broke the story and the Greenpeace activist who worked tirelessly to embarrass the powers that be into helping free three whales stuck in Alaskan ice…
The Vow (review)
So it turns out that perhaps the most awesome thing ever to happen to sappy shitty romantic flicks is brain damage. It makes sense! These movies are already brain-dead 95 percent of time anyway…
Man on a Ledge (review)
Well. Rarely has a movie been so accurately named. Man on a Ledge is very much about a man on a ledge. And not much more…
