Lore (review)
Hints at a new mythology of darkness and light, of scary childhood and even scarier adolescence…
war/antiwar
The Invisible War (review)
An enraging film, as it is meant to be, and not just because it is a military microcosm of rape culture at large.
5 Broken Cameras documentary review
A horrific portrait of everyday life on the West Bank, yet one also powerfully warm, funny, and human…
Warm Bodies (review)
Contents itself with the mildest of tweaks at both the zombie and the romantic-comedy genres… (new on DVD/VOD in the US and Canada)
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.
Les Misérables (review)
There’s an alchemy here that brings together the best of screen and the best of stage…
Argo (London Film Festival review)
I was literally in tears for parts of Argo, a purely physical reaction, not an emotional one, to deal with the tension. The only other option would have been to moan out loud, the film is almost that unbearably nerve-wracking.
Shadow Dancer (review)
Even the marvelous performances by Clive Owen and Andrea Riseborough are not enough to ratchet up the drama to the level of the totally gripping, which is a damn shame and something of a puzzler…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter movie review: met on a great battlefield
Timur Bekmambetov treats his pile-on of pulpy historical pseudo revisionism sincerely, but cheerfully so: its subversively gentle sense of humor is never so earnest that it stumbles over into cheese.
Snow White and the Huntsman (review)
Would really really like for you to feel the grand, sweeping, larger-than-life mythos, and borrows willy-nilly from Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro to try to do so.
