reviews

Michael Winterbottom’s powerful and provocative new film is not a detective story, not a murder mystery, though it takes that format. It is about giving us an alarming portrait of the dangerous and strange new world we’re living in that most of us sheltered Americans can’t even conceive of.

Sure, this is pretty much an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone,’ but it’s a really, really *good* episode of ‘The Twilight Zone’…

My head wants to explode at the woman-hating hideousness of this.

These people are the worst superheroes ever.

It works wonderfully well to make this movie Nancy a bit of a retro throwback. This is how you make a girl stand out today: you make her polite, enthusiastic, bookish, sweet, and wholesome.

When I saw how this sweet but slight CGI comedy was shaping up — it’s penguins! and they’re making documentaries about their brethren who surf! — I though, Well, it’s *Endless Shiver,* isn’t it?

Just so you know — because this is important when you’re talking to fans of George Clooney’s charming thief Danny Ocean — it’s an hour and 15 minutes into *Ocean’s Thirteen* before he appears in a tux.

At an hour and 10 minutes into ‘Day Watch (Dnevnoy dozor),’ I was itching with boredom. Unfortunately, with the film’s excruciating running time of two hours and 20 minutes, my ordeal had reached only the halfway point.

Not a true story, but it might well be: its devastating power rings with honesty and terrible authenticity.