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LUCE

August 11, 2019 By Leave a Comment

LUCE

LUCE is less a film than a political dialectic on race and class in these United States, and a brilliant, exquisitely performed one at that. Told with a deliberate, sometimes maddening ambiguity, it challenges the audience at every turn about where the truth lies, and the limits of familial loyalty. By the end, not every… Read More »

Tagged With: child soldier, classism, high school, lying, racism, stage to screen, truth

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT

March 16, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT

As is the wont with these franchises based on young adult novels, THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT, the third in the series, begins where the last one left off. No flashback montage, no character narration bringing us up to date. Instead, there’s just a quick reminder that Jeanine is dead, and that everyone on screen is… Read More »

Tagged With: Chicago, dystopian future, franchise book to screen, genetic purity, romance, sequel, unexpected power point presentation

INSURGENT Keeps the DIVERGENT Franchise Puffing Along

March 20, 2015 By Leave a Comment

INSURGENT Keeps the DIVERGENT Franchise Puffing Along

The advantage of seeing outstanding actors in a middling film is that you can appreciate just how good they are on a whole new level.  And INSURGENT is certainly a middling film, though that is an improvement on the last installment in this franchise, DIVERGENT. With a new director, Robert Schwentke, bringing Veronica Roth’s YA… Read More »

Tagged With: Ashley Judd, book to screen, Chicago, cinema, DIVERGENT, dystopian future, factions, fantasy, film, INSURGENT, Kate Winslet, Miles Teller, movie, narrative, Octavia Spencer, Robert Schwentke, Sci-fi, Shailene Woodley, THeo James, Tony Goldwyn, Veronica Roth., young adult and tagged Ansel Elgort

BIRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

November 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BIRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

THE SHORT VERSION: One of the best films of the year.

Tagged With: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, Michael Keaton

INTERNATIONAL, THE

October 21, 2014 By 1 Comment

THE INTERNATIONAL is a convoluted film about a complicated subject.  Certainly complicated best describes the ins and outs of international banking, a business that doesn’t so much disrespect borders and politics as ignore them altogether as being just so much piffle in the grand scheme of things. Certainly the premise that debt  rules the world,… Read More »

RING, THE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

All that THE RING asks of us is to bide our time until the dynamite last 20 minutes or so, when all questions are answered, all patience is rewarded, and the preparations for the sequel can begin. For the other 95 minutes, we must watch an interesting premise made as bland and colorless as the rain-washed streets… Read More »

Tagged With: ghost, supernatural television

YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Woody Allen revisits questions of ethics and morals as lived in the real world in YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER. His characters bounce and bobble their way through a world without answers, in which they attempt to seize happiness from the jaws of despair with varying degrees of success. The central question is… Read More »

DREAM HOUSE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

There are fine moments in DREAM HOUSE, but not enough so that the easily parsed story and oddly soporific direction fail to become insurmountable hurdles. Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, and Rachel Weisz give performances that are visceral without being obvious, performances that amplify the sense of foreboding and suspense that should be coming from the… Read More »

ADORE

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

ADORE

ADORE, adapted from Doris Lessing’’s novel The Grandmothers, is a compelling, dangerous meditation on the stifling nature of convention, and the fluid nature of emotional bonding when societal norms are put aside. At the center are two lifelong friends, Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz (Robin Wright), best friends since childhood. They are not, as the… Read More »

Tagged With: book to screen, Doris Lessing, Family, mothers and sons, older women-younger men, romance

DIANA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

DIANA, the unnecessary tale of the Princess of Wales’ last true love, is a vapid, banal, and superficial exercise in cheap voyeurism. The object of Diana’s affections, heart surgeon Dr. Hasnat Khan, is portrayed as a man who, above all, cherished his privacy and his profession, so much so that Diana’s celebrity status made their… Read More »

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