Another Mercury Film section to read while you wait for a bunch of strangers on the internet to restore Kelly Reichardt’s first movie.
MR. TURNER—Mike Leigh’s latest, Alison Hallett writes, “sounds like the stuffiest period piece possible.” It’s quite the opposite. Also, how stuffy did putting “quite” in that sentence just make me sound?
A MOST VIOLENT YEAR—So far, J.C. Chandor has made three movies: Margin Call, All Is Lost, and now A Most Violent Year, starring Jessica Chastain and Poe Dameron. So far, I have liked all of them.
BLACK SEA—It’s not often in the Mercury‘s highly esteemed film coverage that we use a phrase like “a bathtub fart of a script.” You guys can thank Ben Coleman for that one.
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT—”This year’s Oscar nominations were laughably out of touch,” Megan Burbank writes, “but singling out Marion Cotillard’s performance in the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night was not.”
STILL ALICE—Hey! Are you looking for a movie that will make you cry five or six times and then make you live the rest of your life in a state of constant terror? Still Alice, everybody!
There’s more, as ever, in Film Shorts, including a ton of movies that are so terrible they didn’t even bother screening them for critics. (Blame this on it being the interminable month of January, the shittiest month of the year for new movies.) And here are your Movie Times. Choose wisely.
