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Tag Archives: reviews
Locke (2014): Tom Hardy. In a Car. For 85 Minutes.
Locke is 85 minutes long. The entire thing (except for maybe 20 seconds in the opening sequence) takes place inside a moving car. There is only one man in the car. He is Ivan Locke. He is played by Tom … Continue reading
Wadjda (2013); written/directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour
The behind-the-scenes stories would be enough to put Wadjda in the history books: The first film to be shot inside Saudi Arabia. By a Saudi director. A female Saudi director. Because of the restrictions placed on women in the public … Continue reading
Review: Three Night Stand (2015)
My review of Three Night Stand, a French-farce-ish rom-com is now up at Rogerebert.com.
Review: Appropriate Behavior (2015); from writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan
I had been looking forward to seeing this: written and directed by Desiree Akhavan, who also stars as the lead character, Shirin. The movie uses all the familiar cliches of a Brooklyn-area hipster lesbian love story, with an insistently deadpan … Continue reading
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (2013); directed by Corneliu Porumboiu
Corneliu Porumboiu is my favorite Romanian director working today, although he’s got some stiff competition from Cristian Mungiu, Calin Peter Netzer, Cristi Puiu …. Porumboiu’s 12:08 East of Bucharest (I wrote about it here) is a slapstick re-enactment of a … Continue reading
The Congress (2014); directed by Ari Folman
The Congress, directed by Ari Folman, and starring Robin Wright as a sci-fi version of herself, knocked the wind out of me. It set off a series of echoing reverberations in my mind that are still going on, days after … Continue reading
Review: Taken 3 (2015)
No. And I actually liked the first two. The poster’s tagline makes me want to say, “Do you PROMISE?” My review of Taken 3 is now up at Rogerebert.com.
Music and Lyrics (2007)
Pros — Hugh Grant in another one of his shallow-guy-finds-a-clue performances, a character so in his wheelhouse that people may dismiss it as “just playing himself” (in other words not really acting.) In case you’re new round these parts, nothing … Continue reading
The Interview (2014); directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg
Before we begin, let’s get all this out of the way: Whether or not the hackers were from North Korea, or were a disgruntled Sony employee, or some shadowy terrorist group, is irrelevant. Sony’s decision to pull the movie was … Continue reading
Belle (2014)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw is having a year, as they say. First came Belle, directed by Amma Asante, based on the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a free black woman in late-18th century England. Then came her performance in Gina Prince-Blythwood’s … Continue reading