Thriller Rated R
“Larsson has whipped up something unique – Agatha Christie with techno Goths – yet this is unremarkable. If anything, the mixing of elements feels clumsy.
“…espionage drama as existential horror flick.
“With that frowning face – including a right eye that looks sleepy and a left one that looks crazed – Michael Shannon could play Jekyll and Hyde at the same exact time.
…centers on a cult, and by the movie’s end you feel as if you’ve been indoctrinated.
Thriller Rated PG-13
“…a paranoid disease thriller for our glocal age.
Thriller Rated NR
By 1964, it had become habit to psychoanalyze Alfred Hitchcock’s movies. So with Marine he seems to have decided to beat everyone to the punch. This is a crazed and lurid character portrait that spends most of its time psychoanalyzing itself. Tippi Hedren, having barely survived The Birds, stars as a serial thief who uses
The VistaVision widescreen process results in perhaps the definitive cinematic sequence of the Alfred Hitchcock oeuvre: Cary Grant versus a crop-duster. Hitchcock uses every inch of the yawning screen to tease and terrify us, letting us think we know what is about to happen – and how – before yanking us in an unexpected direction.
"…cleverly, disconcertingly hushed."
The Best Foreign Language Film winner at this year’s Oscars plays Wednesday at the Beverly Arts Center.
“Inception opens with a dream within a dream. Then it gets complicated.”
