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Tag Archives: thrillers
Review: In Order of Disappearance (2016)
My review of In Order of Disappearance – a revenge-thriller-comedy – is now up at Rogerebert.com.
Review: Disorder (2016)
Apparently, it’s Matthias Schoenaerts Week on my blog. Alice Winocour directs. Disorder is a thriller but it’s more a psychological study of one PTSD-traumatized man, played by Matthias Schoenaerts. Highly recommended. My review of Disorder is now up at Rogerebert.com.
Interview with Alice Winocour, director of Disorder
Diane Kruger, Matthias Schoenaerts, “Disorder,” opening today My review of Disorder, starring Matthias Schoenaerts as Vincent, a PTSD-traumatized soldier home from Afghanistan, and Diane Kruger, wife of a shady businessman Vincent is hired to guard, goes up today on Rogerebert.com. … Continue reading
For Rogerebert.com: On Joan Crawford and Sudden Fear
Joan Crawford got her third (and final) Oscar nomination for her performance in 1952’s Sudden Fear, a film I’ve wrote about ad nauseum, here and elsewhere. The film has been restored and is starting a short theatrical run at the … Continue reading
Revenge Is Not Best Served Cold: A Conversation on Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45
Abel Ferrara’s still-controversial 1981 rape-revenge fantasy Ms. 45 was re-released again by Drafthouse Films a couple of years ago. A woman is raped twice in one day. We have already seen her at her job. She is so shy she … Continue reading
Review: Tom at the Farm (2015); dir. Xavier Dolan
Love him or hate him (and the camps are pretty divided), Xavier Dolan is a phenom. His latest, Tom at the Farm, doesn’t quite work though, although there are some weird undercurrents I liked. Also it looks fantastic. My review … Continue reading
Review: The Gift (2015)
Actor Joel Edgerton (whom I have had a crush on since Zero Dark Thirty) steps into the director’s chair with The Gift, also acting, and he also wrote the script. It’s terrific! Great psychological thriller, with excellent performances from Edgerton, … Continue reading
New York Film Festival 2014: The Blue Room; directed by Mathieu Amalric
The Blue Room is so lean and so taut, with so little fat on its bones, that it calls into question other movies that try to do similar things only take twice as long to do it. The Blue Room … Continue reading
Review: The Guest (2014)
Super fun. Highly recommended. My review of The Guest is up at Rogerebert.com.
Blue Ruin (2014); directed by Jeremy Saulnier
Blue Ruin is the little tiny engine that could. Written and directed, as well as shot, by Jeremy Saulnier (mainly a cinematographer), it was a dream project for him, something he managed to pull together with its integrity intact. There … Continue reading
