Thriller Rated R
“Goofy even when he’s being grotesque, Bentley turns P2 into a comedy without going so far as to make fun of it.
"Long the merry pranksters of the cinema, the Coens have given irony a vacation."
Family Rated PG
“I’ve found more nuance in the two-page Bible stories we read with our kids after breakfast.
Drama Rated R
“Is there another face in the movies as endlessly fascinating as Benicio Del Toro’s?
Comedy Rated R
"Is there a point at which excessive public self-humiliation becomes its own form of warped narcissism?"
Horror Rated R
David Cronenberg remakes a B movie from the 1950s into one of his signature exercises in ickiness. The Fly seems fairly sane for awhile, offering little hint of the grotesqueries to come. Jeff Goldblum stars as Seth Brundle, a reclusive scientist on the verge of perfecting a teleportation device. The guy seems to know his
Sleuth pits Michael Caine against Jude Law in a drama that has less to do with the narrative at hand than with the performers’ respective charisma. Watching the picture is like watching a pair of one-man shows face off against each other. Caine, who also appeared in the 1972 adaptation of Anthony Shaffer’s play, stars
Thriller Rated NR
Michael Haneke gets overly intellectual with this thriller about a pair of clean-cut Droogs who kidnap and torture a privileged family in their picturesque vacation home. As usual, Haneke has rational reasons for his movie’s violence (implied and otherwise), but he still crosses lines here more often than he justifies crossing them.
Barely released, this Iraq war drama should have been a major career step for Jessica Biel, who plays a physically and mentally damaged veteran struggling to adjust to life back home. Biel is very good – panicky, confused, believable as a woman warrior yet still vulnerable. The rest of the cast, though, is downright embarrassing,
This does its best to reach new levels of grisliness in a series that has made grisliness its calling card. As the serial killer Jigsaw plays his usual sadistic mind games – this time from beyond the grave – we’re treated to a gruesomely detailed autopsy, a deadly game of tug of war and a
