Drama Rated PG-13
“The fact that The Blind Side is a terrible movie must be approached gingerly…
Drama Rated R
The writing and directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) turn their attention to Major League Baseball’s farm system in the Dominican Republic, where promising young player Miguel “Sugar” Santos (Algenis Perez Soto) endures the indentured servitude and eventually shows big-league promise. But what, exactly, is that promise? The second half of
“Ryan Bingham, Michael Clayton, Mr. Fox – these are guys who have what could be called the Clooney Conscience.
Your nerves are shot after the first sequence of The Hurt Locker, which means you watch the rest of the movie while suffering from post-traumatic stress. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but the movie – which follows a U.S. bomb-defusing unit in the Iraq war – does provide a sense of what it must have
Drama Rated NR
I would call Tulpan the sweetest movie to ever come out of Kazakhstan, except that it’s the only movie I’ve seen from that former Soviet republic. Maybe they’re all as artful and endearing as this. Director Sergei Dvortsevoy trains his patient, observant camera on a family living on a remote Kazakh steppe, where sheep are
Jeff Bridges gives a stumbling, puking, greasy performance in Crazy Heart – it’s one of those “ugly” roles meant to reject Hollywood glamour in hopes of making it to Hollywood’s glammest night of all. Bridges plays Bad Blake, a grizzled country-music legend in the twilight of his career – if by twilight you mean playing
“Despair drips from the screen…”
“All Wahlberg does is stand quietly in the corner, delivering the most authentic, nuanced performance in the film.
“An unusually nuanced and mature depiction of one of those hoary movie fantasies: the older man who gets the much, much younger woman.
Once again brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne explore the moral predicaments that arise from economic desperation. Lorna (Arta Dobroshi) is an Albanian immigrant who has married her way into Belgium by becoming the wife of a drug addict (Jeremie Renier). The hope is that he’ll overdose, leaving her clear, free and a Belgian citizen. But
