REVIEW: Flight
Denzel Washington has wowed audiences by playing both sides of the hero-villain spectrum. Just look at the two performances that earned him Oscars. 1989’s “Glory” saw him as an almost angelic soldier...
View ArticleF.I.L.M. of the Week (January 17, 2014)
You’ve seen biopics of complex figures, but director Todd Haynes isn’t interested in presenting his portrait of musician and cultural icon Bob Dylan like anything else ever made. His “I’m Not There”...
View ArticleREVIEW: Devil’s Knot
The miscarriage of justice in the case of the West Memphis Three, a group of Satanist wrongfully convicted of murdering young children in rural Arkansas, has received plenty of attention from...
View ArticleREVIEW: Good Kill
Usually, we consider a film a success when its form matches its content. In the case of Andrew Niccol’s “Good Kill,” though, the opposite is true. The movie, which tackles the escalation of drone...
View ArticleF.I.L.M. of the Week (November 24, 2016)
With “Certain Women,” Kelly Reichardt took a move back toward the kind of stories that made her career – the quiet routines that define and confine the lives of Pacific Northwesterners. But earlier...
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