Drama Rated PG-13
“Sentimental and old-fashioned, yes, but also vitally contemporary and terribly upsetting.
Family Rated PG
“…exhilarating, yet disappointingly boyish.
Thriller Rated R
“Larsson has whipped up something unique – Agatha Christie with techno Goths – yet this is unremarkable. If anything, the mixing of elements feels clumsy.
“People are feeling sorry for Matt Damon, but this isn’t the embarrassing disaster you might fear.
Drama Rated NR
My Euro-art alarm bells were ringing with this one, considering early word about it only highlighted certain elements: a lot of talking, purposeful obtuseness, Juliette Binoche. And while the movie has all of those things, it’s also something surprising: impossibly romantic. Directed by Iran’s Abbas Kiarostami, Certified Copy stars Binoche as a French antiques dealer
It’s clear, very early on, we’re not in the hands of a “narrative” filmmaker. Indeed, first-time feature director Steve McQueen comes from an experimental film background, and he brings that formalistic aesthetic to bear on a story that in other, more melodramatic hands could have led to Oscar grandstanding. Hunger details the 1981 prison strikes
Drama Rated R
The end of the world, as witnessed by a manic-depressive bride. That’s a pithy way of describing Melancholia, yet the movie has a remoteness, a staginess, that doesn’t allow you to get much closer. As another piece of nihilistic provocation from Danish writer-director Lars von Trier, it’s never anything less than arresting, but always in
Comedy Rated R
Another wonderfully unclassifiable tragidramedy (or something like that) from the Duplass brothers, Jeff, Who Lives at Home is quiet, dreamy and full of possibility. In fact, the possibility of possibility is what the movie is all about. Jason Segel plays the title role, the 30-year-old denizen of his mother’s basement (we learn that Jeff’s dad
“Oh, how we needed this…
Even with the spanking, this is a bit of a bore. Despite its seemingly perfect match of filmmaker and subject – bodily minded director David Cronenberg and the sexually charged rise of psychoanalysis – A Dangerous Method is further evidence that movies are most interestingly about something when they aren’t so obviously about it. Based
