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The Damned United: Another attempt at getting Americans to give
a shit about soccer.
You’re going to refuse to enjoy The Uninvited, aren’t you?
Step Brothers: New brothers. Same old bullshit.
Produced with the help of indie auteur David Gordon Green, director Jeff Nichols’ slow Southern tragedy about two tightlipped sets of feuding half-brothers has all the markings of a first film—in all of the best possible ways. Following the death of their estranged father, three brothers (dubbed, in effective negligence, Son, Boy, and Kid) say […]
Over the last eight or so years, young director David Gordon Green has, in relative obscurity, become one of the most emotionally arresting, quietly unconventional voices in contemporary American cinema. Picking up where Terrence Malick left off circa 1974, Green’s first two films—the celebrated (if seldom seen) George Washington and All the Real Girls—were contemporary […]
Over the last eight or so years, young director David Gordon Green has, in relative obscurity, become one of the most emotionally arresting, quietly unconventional voices in contemporary American cinema. Picking up where Terrence Malick left off circa 1974, Green’s first two films—the celebrated (if seldom seen) George Washington and All the Real Girls—were contemporary […]
Having already spawned four published sequels and a BBC television adaptation, Philippa Gregory’s historically questionable novel about the dabblings and diddlings of Tudor England graduates to what it was seemingly made for: a dripping Hollywood production, complete with requisite American flesh. The Other Boleyn Girl‘s sordidly fictionalized account of the love triangle between Anne Boleyn, […]
Fearing that perhaps it wasn’t delivered heavy-handedly enough the first time, director Jon Poll makes sure to place the second awkward, non-sequitur usage of Cat Stevens’ “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” right there at the pivotal tail end of Charlie Bartlett. Of course, it wasn’t enough to just pony up for the […]
If the last few years have taught us anything about the current state of Woody Allen’s creative process, it’s that he stopped caring about his actors a long time ago. Once meticulously cast ensembles comprised of otherwise neglected talents, Allen’s actors have now largely become a means to an end: marquee-lit lightweights eager to exchange […]
Usually to suggest that a director’s films exist within a league by themselves is high praise—an accolade best bestowed upon only the most revered architects of the craft. And while this is certainly true of Woody Allen, the fact that his films stand alone has less to do with his talents as a filmmaker and […]
For a film concerned with violent violation—from the metaphorical rape of Afghanistan at the hands of the Soviets, the US, and the Taliban, to some all-too-literal exploitation of children—The Kite Runner sure is optimistic. Based on the bestselling debut novel by Khaled Hosseini, director Marc Forster’s adaptation manages to impose the pale shadow of hope […]
In his first turn in the director’s chair since the political minefield of The Legend of Bagger Vance(?!?!), Robert Redford joins the well-intentioned, liberal baby-boomer chorus with his uniquely astute reaction to the War on Terror, Lions for Lambs. Along with screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan, Redford leads his all-star cast through what basically amounts to […]
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