Drama Rated PG-13
"Because it tackles a big topic and has been made by an important director, critics have positioned this as a defining film. It’s not."
Drama Rated R
You never quite believe the romance – if you can call it that – between Ben Stiller’s abusive, narcissistic New Yorker and Greta Gerwig’s dim, sweet, flake of a Los Angeles personal assistant in this feature from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Yet the movie still works. Baumbach has established himself as an accredited miseryologist (The Squid
"…a handsome, dutiful adaptation, yet like so many reverent movies based on acclaimed books, it’s lifeless."
“…bloated, obvious and – most damningly – immediately irrelevant.
The cast is the best thing in Get Low, a jerry-built period piece about forgiveness that stars – thankfully – Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. Duvall has the lead role of Felix Bush, a hermit in 1930s Tennessee who suddenly waltzes into town and announces that he wants to throw a funeral party for himself
One of the most emotionally cathartic movies of 2010. Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play Nic and Jules, a married couple on the tail end of parenthood. Their daughter, Joni (Mia Wasikowska), is on her way to college, while their son, Laser (Josh Hutcherson), is in high school. Nic and Jules are happy and proud
“…alternately swells your heart and punctures it.
“…feels like a feminist reworking of a classical heroic myth.”
The Road is only half as traumatic as the Cormac McCarthy novel on which it’s based – which of course means that it will still leave you a wreck. Viggo Mortensen gives a brave performance as the father who wanders a desolate, post-apocalyptic landscape with his son; he isn’t afraid to put the man’s terror
When Clint Eastwood directs even routine genre exercises they tend to be wildly overpraised, so I can only imagine what lies ahead for Hereafter, his consideration of nothing less than the afterlife. Written by Peter Morgan (The Queen), Hereafter interweaves three tales from around the globe. In San Francisco, psychic George Lonegan (Matt Damon) sees
