PAST LIVES (A24): The playwright Celine Song makes an impressive feature writing/directing debut with the lovely, eloquent Past Lives. The film is sort of the opposite of Sliding Doors and all of the multiversal ente...
PUNCTURE: Worth A Ticket – A Bracingly Dark Ride No one is going to see PUNCTURE in theaters, and that’s a shame, because unaccountably, it’s one of the best pictures around. “Unaccount...
2012 was, in the end, a very good year for movies–or a a good half-year, more accurately. With the studios continuing to load their best efforts into the festival- and awards-heavy fall and winter part of the cal...
LIVING (no distrib): Over the years, there’s periodically been talk about remaking Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece Ikiru, including a rumored updated US version that would have starred Tom Hanks in the le...
MARGIN CALL: Worth A Ticket – The Real Sequel to”Wall Street” MARGIN CALL is smarter and more gripping than Moneyball and The Ides of March combined–and those are two smart, grippi...
THE CAMPAIGN: Not At Any Price – Abstain THE CAMPAIGN, like many a politician before it, tries to be all things to all people, and winds up delivering almost nothing. There was reason to be hopeful about The Camp...
PROMETHEUS: Worth A Ticket – For the Visual Splendor, Not the Plot Expectations were undoubtedly too high for PROMETHEUS. The Alien franchise (and notwithstanding Ridley Scott and co-writer Damon Lindelo...
ONE FOR THE MONEY: Not Even For Free – Another Heigl Misfire Movie stars are, make no mistake, trademarks. Consumers who invest in 2 hours of George Clooney or Will Smith expect the same kind of r...