
Black Mass movie review: men behaving badly… again
A solid execution of a familiar tale, crammed with a likable, watchable cast. But it doesn’t have anything new to say about why men do despicable things.
A solid execution of a familiar tale, crammed with a likable, watchable cast. But it doesn’t have anything new to say about why men do despicable things.
Affleck could do for Boston what Martin Scorsese did for New York in the 1970s…
In *The Other Guys,* Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are ordinary NYPD detectives trying to move out of the shadow of two superstar detectives, while also trying not to kill each other. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
While crazy cops and zombie farmers do well, too: 1. Shutter Island: $22.7 million (2nd week; drops 45%) 2. Cop Out: $18.2 million (NEW) 3. The Crazies: $16.1 million (NEW) 4. Avatar: $13.7 million 5. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief: $9.6 million (3rd week; drops 37%) actual numbers, not estimates Over its … more…
If the weekend box office estimates hold once the final numbers are released later today, it looks like Shutter Island earned a little over $40 million since it opened on Friday. That estimate would have to shift downward by more than $10 million — which won’t happen, of course; estimates aren’t usually off by more … more…
It’s no rare thing that a film gets buzz for its director. It’s a rare thing when that director has never made a film before. It’s an even rarer thing when the film by that first-timer turns out to be as astonishingly confident and shrewd as actor-turned-director Ben Affleck’s *Gone Baby Gone.*
WHY IS THIS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR?: A cast and crew at the absolute top of their games — including some you never thought could play in this league — create a tough, gritty, funny, thrilling, pure-popcorn adrenaline rush. Movies that are Important and Meaningful and have Something To Say are … more…
This is the smartest kind of spectacular that an international remake can be: it picks up the clever threads of story from its source material and weaves them into another world in such a way that it’s hard to see how they didn’t spring from that world in the first place.