Aguas Verdes Alamar The American The Athlete Bad Lieutenant Black Swan The Blind Side Bluebeard Blue Valentine Bran Nue Dae Broken Embraces Buried Cairo Time Catfish City of Final Destination Cell 211 Crazy Heart Easy A The Elephant in the Living Room Exit Through the Gift Shop Fair Game The Fighter Get Low Ghost Writer […]
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 […]
Amal Appaloosa Band’s Visit, The Body of Lies Burn After Reading Changeling, The Chris and Don Christmas Tale, A Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Dark Knight Duchess, The Duchesse of Langeais, The Encounters at the End of the World Frost/Nixon Frozen River Gran Torino Happy Go Lucky Mamma Mia! Man on Wire Milk Mongol […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Cleverly takes the piss of the rom-com genre in genial, lighthearted fashion. Doesn’t do much more, but if you enjoy Rebel Wilson (whom I wouldn’t have known from Melissa McCarthy) in a fantasy with Liam Hemsworth and some New York locations, it’s a pleasant way to kill time.
As the Oscars approached the big reveal for Best Picture, I thought things had gone remarkably well. There had been excellent musical numbers by major artists: Queen, Bette Midler, Gillian Welch, Lady Gaga. The presenters had largely acquitted themselves just fine without a host, and we had been spared the embarrassingly condescending and time-wasting bits […]
Filmed in bleak-and-white, Cold War tells the oft-told tale of a man driven by lust who gives us his career, his country, and ultimately his life enslaved by his infatuation. She does little to merit his devotion and much to mock it, leaving me to impatiently and vainly implore him to get over it. The setting […]
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