Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
Foxcatcher chronicles the tragic partnership of multi-m
Hell hath no fury like a fairy whose wings have been
If nothing else, the Bond franchise teaches us that consistency is overrated, but perhaps this is the best way to keep drawing an audience. Looking through the previous 17 films, it’s difficult to find two in a row that contain a similar tone or style. This, in part, could be blamed on the frequent change in directors, […]
A number of films that deal with isolation also deal with the fear of containment. Castaway pits Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) on an island. Pi is trapped on a boat with a hungry tiger. In Buried, Ryan Gosling must ward off claustrophobia and – inexplicably – fire in a coffin. Frozen relegates our skiers to their chairlift, […]
Money for Nothing is the latest documentary to cast a stone on the many culprits in bringing about the Great Recession. While it does a decent job of breaking down the convoluted calculus of the United States economy into rote concepts (printing lots of dollars decreases the value of the dollar and lowers interest rates, which in […]
Directed by Bill Siegel (The Weather Underground), The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a brief film that plays more like a precis of Ali’s life than a profound look at the transformative people’s champion. This is not to say that the film isn’t worthy of a watch. But, it is to suggest that the film does more […]
Among brilliant moments are those that we have seen many times before.
There is too much too familiar and too much lost in this precis of the porno chic era.
Matthew McConaughey turns in his third great performance in a row in a tale about our cultural anxieties over love.
Ryan Coogler can make people cry. And that’s a very good thing.
