Musical Rated G
“In its wishful-thinking way, the picture taps into an aspect of growing up that those gritty independent movies – with their wayward Larry Clark kids – tend to forget: the effervescence of youth.
Drama Rated R
“…exists on a more realistic plane than something like Lethal Weapon or Rush Hour. Watching it, you feel like you’re walking a cop’s beat.
“For a drama about a missing child, Changeling is curiously devoid of any sense of urgency.
A hallowed text for aspiring sales sharks – as chronicled in 2000’s superior Boiler Room – Wall Street is blustery and unsophisticated, like many of the movies of Oliver Stone. It’s a cautionary tale that plays more like a recruiting video, which is why wannabe traders watch it the same way wannabe gangsters watch Scarface.
Comedy Rated R
“…argues for integrity in celebrity journalism, which is an oxymoron to the highest degree (and this is coming from someone who has engaged in it).
Drama Rated PG-13
"…thinks it’s an inspirational, based-on-fact, little-man-beats-the-system drama, when in fact it is one of the more depressing pictures I’ve seen in quite some time."
Ed Harris directs himself and Viggo Mortensen in a Western that is so old-fashioned it even carries a troubling dose of old-fashioned sexism. The two male stars have a nice, often wordless rapport as two gunmen and longtime friends who are hired by the residents of Appaloosa to protect them from a sadistic outlaw (Jeremy
Drama Rated NR
“… Newman turns Hud into a tarnished golden boy, cruel yet irresistible to watch.”
“Lon Chaney’s Quasimodo is one of early cinema’s most forlorn and tragic movie monsters, on par with King Kong and Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s creation.
“I found Poppy to be annoying, bordering on the delusional, but of course I’m a big old crab.
