If GIGLI were any worse than it is, it would require special HAZMET handling. It transcends merely bad, merely tedious, merely irksome and plummets into that very special category of film, the one that so tries and tortures its audience that, emerging again from the soul-sucking black hole of celluloid disaster, it no longer fears… Read More »
LE DIVORCE
The Merchant/ Ivory film factory usually dwells on the genteel angst of Victorians. With LE DIVORCE, they take a modern tale and turn it into a flawed but charming little film, long on the foibles of human interaction, a bit short on filling in the details. Never mind. Watching the subtle culture clash as American… Read More »
BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS, THE
There’s a whole lot of nothing going on in THE BATTLE OF SHAKER HEIGHTS. In a script that tries to tackle everything from the Big Bang to the present, or so it seems, one is left at the end with a work that is so much less than the sum of its parts, that it… Read More »
THE STATION AGENT
THE STATION AGENT is a quietly powerful film about the unspeakable awkwardness of life. Writer/director Thomas McCarthy won the Audience Award at Sundance, and rightly so, for this tale of three disparate people who find themselves where they least expected, thrown together in this great messy adventure called life. The hero is Fin, a 4’5″… Read More »
UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN
I wish that UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN were a better film than it is because its star, Diane Lane, deserves only the best vehicles. If it is worth seeing at all, and I am giving it a marginal nod, it is because Lane is one of the finest actresses working in film today. She can… Read More »
PIECES OF APRIL
Any film that declares Krispy Kreme donuts as proof of God’s existence is a film that has much to teach us no matter what our level of metaphysical enlightenment. In this perfect film, writer/director Peter Hedges astutely observes with sardonic wit and aching emotion the two great train wrecks of family life, the car… Read More »
THE COMPANY
The thing about Malcolm McDowell is his charisma that permeates without overpowering. Even in the small dollops of screen time afforded him in Robert Altmans THE COMPANY, he is undoubtedly the star, the fixed point about which the film revolves. And rightly so. He plays Aberto Antonelli, the artistic director of the eponymous company, The… Read More »
THE COOLER
Love is a funny thing. You cant predict where it will bloom or what havoc it will wreak when it does. Thats at the heart of THE COOLER, another of those quirky parables set in Las Vegas where darkness and light fight it out and the outcome is, well, it depends on your point of… Read More »
JAPANESE STORY
JAPANESE STORY is an ambitious film that does something intriguing. It plays like life itself. At times tedious, at times ridiculous, at times infuriating, at times moving almost beyond our ability to bear it, becoming in retrospect a memory to be savored and to be pondered. It reminded me of nothing so much as the… Read More »
JERSEY GIRL
In JERSEY GIRL, Ben Affleck gives the best performance of his career. This is not to say that it is a brilliant performance, I don’t want to raise expectations unfairly, but considering the abuse I and other reviewers have heaped on him in the past, its only fair to give the boy his props now.… Read More »
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