Drama Rated PG-13
“…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
Drama Rated R
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
Drama Rated NR
Is Luke Jackson, the laconic iconoclast played by Paul Newman in Cool Hand Luke, mentally ill? It sure seems that way. He greets his misery – being arrested for damaging parking meters, being sentenced to a chain gang, being pummeled by alpha dog inmate Dragline (George Kennedy) – with the same idiot grin, as if
Drama Rated PG
“Irresistible wish fulfillment.
Chicago’s Music Box Theatre is showing a restored print of the French New Wave classic to celebrate the picture’s 50th anniversary.
