Entries by Bob Marshall

Alphabetical List of 2013 Movies

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints American Hustle Amour The Art of Killing Barbara Before Midnight Blue Jasmine Blue is the Warmest Color Boucherie Halal Caesar Must Die Captain Phillips The Conjuring Disconnect Don Jon Elysium Enough Said 42 Frances Ha Fruitvale Station The Gatekeepers The Grandmaster Gravity The Great Beauty Greenwich Village Her The Impossible In […]

Alphabetical List of 2012 Movies

Anna Karenina Arbitrage Bernie Bullhead Cabin in the Woods Coriolanus Dark Knight Rises Darling Companion Django Unchained Elena Elles Farewell, My Queen Five-Year Engagement Flight Habibi Headhunters Intouchables Kid with a Bike Last Ride Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln Lola Versus The Master Moonrise Kingdom Nuit #1 Pelotero Premium Rush Queen of Versailles Rust […]

Alphabetical List of 2009 Movies

Adventureland Avatar Cheri The Class The Country Teacher The Cove Damn United Departures District 9 Duplicity Easy Virtue An Education Eye of the Leopard The Fantastic Mr. Fox (500) Days of Summer Food, Inc. Gomorrah Gran Torino The Hangover Harvard Beats Yale, 28-28 The Hurt Locker Il Divo Inglourious Basterds In the Loop Into Temptation […]

Woman at War – 5

A morally ambivalent story that could be about many things: industrial pollution, corporate greed, citizen action, family, the media, the futility of resistance, the Big Brother state, love. Perhaps it was an Icelandic fable, as the heroine had supernatural powers in an otherwise realistic film, and two musical trios kept showing up, possibly projected from […]

Transit – 8

A teaser of a mystery thriller, in which each plot point you anticipate turns in another direction. Franz Rogowski, for starters, didn’t seem like the leading man, until he was. And all the pieces you expected to fall into place at the end, fell apart. German storm troopers invading Paris made you think this was […]

Birds of Passage – 8

The story of how an indigenous Colombian culture goes to pot, literally and figuratively. Cristina Gallego does a remarkable job of locating us inside the world of the Wayuu people (think Dances With Wolves) then setting in motion a tragic scenario in which everything and everyone is destroyed (think Hamlet or Lear). This was also the country and […]

Never Look Away – 9*

This may be the best film about an artist I’ve ever seen, plus it’s a searing look at Nazi-era Germany and a charming love story. It also features six captivating (and attractive) actors who fill the screen and absorb our attention, none more than Tom Schilling, who radiates intelligence with his every look. Sebastian Koch, […]