Thriller Rated R
"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…
“Goofy even when he’s being grotesque, Bentley turns P2 into a comedy without going so far as to make fun of it.
"Long the merry pranksters of the cinema, the Coens have given irony a vacation."
Sleuth pits Michael Caine against Jude Law in a drama that has less to do with the narrative at hand than with the performers’ respective charisma. Watching the picture is like watching a pair of one-man shows face off against each other. Caine, who also appeared in the 1972 adaptation of Anthony Shaffer’s play, stars
Thriller Rated NR
Michael Haneke gets overly intellectual with this thriller about a pair of clean-cut Droogs who kidnap and torture a privileged family in their picturesque vacation home. As usual, Haneke has rational reasons for his movie’s violence (implied and otherwise), but he still crosses lines here more often than he justifies crossing them.
