Where Are the Women? Secret in Their Eyes
Gets close to representing women well but falls down, and ends up a story about a man obsessed with the rape and murder of a pretty blonde teenaged girl.
Secret in Their Eyes
Secret in Their Eyes movie review: it should have remained untold
The 2009 Oscar-winning Best Foreign Language Film has been given a listless Hollywood makeover, one that wastes Chiwetel Ejiofor’s effortless sincerity.
Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) movie review: revenge served hot
This anthology of six bleakly funny shorts is a mixed bag that ranges from anticlimactic but intriguing to “Oh my God, did I just laugh out loud at that?”
on my radar: opening 08.11-13.10 in U.K. theaters
What else can Disney plunder from its own history?
The Secret in Their Eyes (review)
This year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is a seductive film noir, a lonely love story, a cautionary tale about taking a quest for justice too far, and more…
North American box office: ‘Kick-Ass’ can’t quite kick ass…
…and How to Train Your Dragon continues breathing fire: 1. Kick-Ass: $19.8 million (NEW) 2. How to Train Your Dragon: $19.6 million (4th week; drops 21%) 3. Date Night: $16.7 million (2nd week; drops 34%) 4. Death at a Funeral: $16.2 million (NEW) 5. Clash of the Titans: $15.4 million (3rd week; drops 42%) actual … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Micmacs,’ ‘Date Night,’ ‘The Secret in Their Eyes,’ ‘Mother and Child’
Micmacs (now playing in the U.K. and available to preorder on Region 2 DVD; opens in the U.S. and Canada on May 28), in which French comedian Dany Boon is a guy with a bullet in his head on a quest to destroy the weapons manufacturer who made the bullet. It’s from Jean-Pierre Jeunet — … more…
