Musical Rated PG-13
“…like a big-time variety show, with Daniel Day-Lewis as the oddly selected host.
Drama Rated R
Your nerves are shot after the first sequence of The Hurt Locker, which means you watch the rest of the movie while suffering from post-traumatic stress. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but the movie – which follows a U.S. bomb-defusing unit in the Iraq war – does provide a sense of what it must have
Horror Rated R
"The time counter clicks away in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, and you’ll find your eyes clinging to it like a life preserver."
“…not only shows us how fear can come to dominate the human psyche – it lets us experience it.”
Thriller Rated PG-13
“…a case of half-hearted ambition, if there is such a thing. Kelly fails, but the problem is he doesn’t fail big enough.
Drama Rated PG-13
“An unusually nuanced and mature depiction of one of those hoary movie fantasies: the older man who gets the much, much younger woman.
Family Rated PG
“…a triumph on two fronts: an animation masterpiece from one of America’s finest filmmakers.
Once again brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne explore the moral predicaments that arise from economic desperation. Lorna (Arta Dobroshi) is an Albanian immigrant who has married her way into Belgium by becoming the wife of a drug addict (Jeremie Renier). The hope is that he’ll overdose, leaving her clear, free and a Belgian citizen. But
Sam Raimi must have really missed demonic vomit, bursting eyeballs and other such gory delicacies. After directing three Spider-Man films, Raimi returned to the outrageous (comic?) grotesqueries of his early career (The Evil Dead) with Drag Me to Hell. It was vastly overpraised as a piece of auteurism, but then again my enjoyment of said
You have to stick with The Informant! to appreciate it, an effort that is made especially difficult by the cruddy, digital cinematography (thanks to director Steven Soderbergh, once again shooting under the pseudonym Peter Andrews). But if you can get past that, you’ll witness a deceptively brilliant performance by Matt Damon, one that gets better
