Thriller Rated R
“Shyamalan’s latest film is the first in a long time that I can’t defend.
Based on James Grady’s novel, Condor is an efficient exercise in Watergate-era paranoia. Robert Redford plays Joseph Turner, a low-level CIA researcher who returns to the office with lunch one day to find every one of his colleagues murdered. His panic only grows after the CIA agents ordered to bring him in instead try to
Drama, Thriller Rated NR
“It isn’t long into Touch of Evil when you realize that anything goes.”
“Pacino never looks very frazzled, even as his lethal deadline approaches. He only gets louder.
"There is a deception being perpetrated in movie theaters of late, and Deception is part of the ruse."
“Haneke is trafficking in the very thing he means to critique. If the pot means to call the kettle black in order to make a larger point, that still doesn’t change the pot’s color.
Thriller Rated PG-13
“…a marketing hook first and a movie … well, actually, never.
“When Lane isn’t preaching about the heinous violence, she’s babbling on in tech speak. It’s like having a Dell rep describe the plot of Saw.
"…turns things upside down for a horror movie – you want to be alone in the dark."
“I can’t think of less business-savvy premise for a movie than that of Awake…
