Thriller Rated PG-13
“…a marketing hook first and a movie … well, actually, never.
Thriller Rated R
“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.
Though this Alfred Hitchcock effort is about World War II-era spies who use romance as a deadly weapon, Notorious is remembered less as a thriller than a tragic love story. I suppose that’s what happens when you have Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in the lead roles. Bergman plays Alicia Huberman, daughter of a German-American
“No one is going mistake Jason Statham for Daniel Day-Lewis, but the action specialist still deserves better material than he’s usually given.
