Action/Adventure Rated PG-13
“…may not be satisfyingly true – at least for purists – to the original Gene Roddenberry television series. But it’s true to good filmmaking, and that’s what matters.”
“A shrug of a film…that has the diminutive stature of a DVD extra.”
Action/Adventure Rated R
“..true to the series in one crucial way: its zen-like commitment to wanton chaos.”
"…much of Zero Dark Thirty works to subvert the gender expectations we might have as an audience."
"…after seeing The Hobbit I couldn’t wait to see it again – projected at 24 frames per second and without 3-D."
"…like a Tony Scott film made with less flair and cheaper equipment."
Coffy is at once a notable moment in female-empowerment cinema and a pervasive exercise in the objectification of women. It’s as if Gloria Steinem wrote a screenplay that was then handed off to Hugh Hefner to direct. After appearing in a couple of women-in-prison pictures, Pam Grier broke out as Coffy, a nurse with a
"Mendes distills the Bond ethos in a single sequence: it’s sex and death as irresistible surface and sheen."
"Without being remotely realistic … has a crunch that nonetheless feels authentic."
"Nothing quite excites and disturbs us as the prospect of time travel. Looper exploits that tension for all its worth."
