Trance (review)
Deliciously preposterous, with misdirections and red herrings scattered about like enigmatic confetti…
suspense/thriller
Safe Haven (review)
Not just another tale about how the people whose photos come with the picture frames fell in love. This time it’s a thriller, too!
False Trail (Jägarna 2) (review)
If you’re weary of Peter Stormare’s one-dimensional Hollywood villains, here’s a chance to see him in his natural environment…
Oscar Nominated Live-Action Shorts (85th Academy Awards) (review)
My favorite of the lot is the French-Belgian “Death of a Shadow,” a steampunkish science fantasy…
Chained (review)
An unnerving and provocative grenade lobbed into the heart of the horror genre…
The Sweeney (review)
This British attempt to ape Hollywood action movies only looks absurd, even if it does accidentally also hold up most Hollywood action movies as absurd, too…
Broken City (review)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…
Barbara (review)
An odd mutedness and puzzling lack of urgency frustrate the mood of Orwellian horror…
Zero Dark Thirty movie review
If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.
Gangster Squad (review)
Gangster Squad! In color! This is blustery postwar mythologizing about the violent birth of the modern metropolis, all pulpy-bright even when it’s night…
