2015-04-08 20:00
IT FOLLOWS: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, directed by David Robert Mitchell (100 min.)It Follows begins with a chilling and disorienti… Read More
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2015-04-07 21:11
J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year, his follow up to the phenomenally minimalist Robert Redford lost-at-sea drama All Is Lost, suffers from a serious identity crisis. The film has no idea if… Read More
2015-03-20 21:22
THE GUNMAN: Sean Penn, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Idris Elba, directed by Pierre Morel (115 min.)Maybe it's the lowered expectations I had going in, or maybe I have become… Read More
2015-03-19 02:40
Preconception can doom a film, regardless of the film's ultimate merits. Occasionally, critics and audiences go into a picture with ideas and notions about what they should see, so when they… Read More
2015-03-10 04:01
CHAPPIE: Dev Patel, Ninja, Yo-Landi Visser, Hugh Jackman, Sigourney Weaver, directed by Neill Blomkamp (120 min.)Chappie is a mixture of just about every other "robot" movie around, existing… Read More
2015-02-26 21:06
Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in America is the best gangster film that never was, at least for a while. Upon its release in 1984, American studios were scared to death of the four hour ru… Read More
2015-02-20 19:40
Two days away from one of my favorite nights of the year, despite the annual negativity surrounding the Academy Awards. Now, I understand everything at the Oscars is politically charged, and… Read More
2015-02-06 21:47
JUPITER ASCENDING: Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, directed by The Wachowskis. (125 min.)There are stages one must go through when they are dealing with a terrible mov… Read More
2015-01-12 19:25
2014 was an uneven year. There were some great films out there, but they came at unusual times. Even though the summer movie season had its typical run of duds, there were some surprising ge… Read More
2015-01-09 21:14
INHERENT VICE: Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Reese Witherspoon, Owen Wilson, Benicio Del Toro, Martin Short, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (148 min.)I knew this was going to be a tall tas… Read More
2014-12-29 03:55
AMERICAN SNIPER: Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller, directed by Clint Eastwood (134 min.)American Sniper tells the fascinating and unbelievable story of Chris Kyle in very conventional ways. The… Read More
2014-12-18 22:06
EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS – Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, John Turturro, Ben Kingsley, Sigourney Weaver, directed by Ridley Scott (150 min.)There is an ill wind blowing in Exodus: Gods a… Read More
2014-12-17 06:24
THE DROP: Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, Noomi Rapace, directed by Michael R. Roskam (106 min.)Tom Hardy can play just about any type of character, and play it well. I enjoy him as an ac… Read More
2014-12-17 06:24
INTERSTELLAR: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, directed by Christopher Nolan (159 min.)There may be warts in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. I spotted a… Read More
2014-12-17 06:21
WHIPLASH: Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons, directed by Damien Chazelle (106 min.)My fourth grade music teacher told my mother I had a tin ear. And like that, m career as a musician went out the w… Read More
2014-12-17 06:20
BIRDMAN: Michael Keaton, Edward Norton, Zach Galifianikis, Emma Stone, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñàrritu (110 min.)Birdman is Michael Keaton at his absolute best, but it… Read More
2014-12-17 06:20
FOXCATCHER: Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, directed by Bennett Miller (130 min.)The introduction of John du Pont might make him seem like an eccentric Bond villain. At least it… Read More
2014-11-13 06:48
I've tried for years to pinpoint the time in my life where I fell in love with the movies, but I can't quite find that singular moment. Because I was too young when I fell headlong into film… Read More
2014-11-05 22:23
It boggles my mind why director George Sluizer would remake his own 1988 masterpiece, The Vanishing, and completely sabotage it with a cheap ending to appease American audiences. His origina… Read More
2014-11-01 21:13
NIGHTCRAWLER: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Riz Ahmed, Bill Paxton, directed by Dan Gilroy (117 min.)Jake Gyllenhaal's performance in Nightcrawler is so hypnotizing, so oddly brilliant, so co… Read More
2014-10-24 20:31
JOHN WICK: Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, directed by Chad Stahelski (96 min.)John Wick succeeds because it knows what it is. Here is an absurd film in the r… Read More
2014-10-17 20:58
FURY: Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LeBeouf, Michael Pena, Jon Bernthal, directed by David Ayer (135 min.)War pictures are typically only as strong as their ensemble. The best war film… Read More
2014-10-03 20:57
GONE GIRL: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Tyler Perry, Carrie Coon, Tyler Perry, Kim Dickens, Neil Patrick Harris, directed by David Fincher (149 min.)I must tread lightly here.Gone Girl is a f… Read More
2014-10-02 20:57
Joe Carnahan's career has ebbed and flowed from serious, heavy action dramas to outlandish, ultra-violent action satires, but when he is on his game there is hardly an action director that c… Read More
2014-09-30 18:38
Somewhere between Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone (the good version), there is Fernando Meirelles and his searing and immediate film, City of God. That is not to say Meirelles' film i… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
NOAH: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Emma Watson, Ray Winstone, Anthony Hopkins, directed by Darren Aronofsky (137 min.)I admire many things about the work of Darren Aronofsky, but what I… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The following review is from Black Swan's initial release in 2010…BLACK SWAN: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey (110 min.)I am glad I to… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
All of Darren Aronofsky's films deal with a characters' obsession and their addiction, be it drugs, or numerology, or the quest for eternity. Of all his films, however, Aronofsky's The… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It took six long years for Darren Aronofsky to follow up his incendiary Requiem for a Dream, six very long arduous years spent by this film fan, foaming at the mouth. Requiem had chang… Read More
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