The Gift movie review: give it back unopened
Descends into emotional idiocy and insufficient intrigue to end in a disgusting place that presumes that a woman is an appropriate pawn in games men play.
Joel Edgerton
Exodus: Gods and Kings movie review: whites only
Simultaneously the dullest and the most insulting version of itself it could possibly be. If only it had managed to be campy, that’d be something…
2014 preview: only movies left underived
Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.
inoffensive Frankenkid; you’ve seen worse (The Odd Life of Timothy Green review)
The magic is as modest as can be, and its aim is a bit off…
here, have a cinemagasm (The Great Gatsby trailer)
But I wonder what Fitzgerald would make of it. I bet he’d love it.
The Thing (review)
A useless, entertainment-free xerox copy of John Carpenter’s 1982 film of the same name…
The Thing (redband trailer)
It’s no bad thing that Joel Edgerton is in everything other movie at the moment, it seems. Because he’s awesome.
Warrior (trailer)
Irony! Tragedy! There’s not a dry eye in the house. Oscars all around!
question of the day: How will Hollywood react to the death of Osama bin Laden?
Be afraid: The bin-Laden-is-dead movie may well be the cinematic equivalent of what we saw on the streets of New York and Washington on Sunday night: guys in baseball caps waving giant American flags and hooting “USA! USA! USA!”…
Animal Kingdom (review)
This electrifying Australian crime drama sears all hint of the sentimental out of a harrowing tale of one Melbourne family’s felonious downfall, and — daringly — strips all sense of cinematic romance out of a genre that often idealizes the corrupt and the brutal.
