Thriller Rated R
“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.
Thriller Rated NC-17
“…a rare erotic film in which the eroticism is more than window dressing.
Alfred Hitchcock once again implicates us, the audience, in this adaptation of a Patricia Highsmith novel about a tennis star (Farley Granger) who contemplates murder for about half of a second, and it proves to be half a second too long. On a train ride, Granger’s Guy Haines meets Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), one of
“Put a cowl on her and she’s Batman…
“…doesn’t have the mythical pull of A History of Violence, yet Cronenberg is too accomplished and clever of a filmmaker to let this gangster tale seem rote.
