There’s a scene in In The Loop in which the “crossest man in Scotland” is introduced. Up until then you can be forgiven for thinking that you have been spending most of the film with that very man, Malcolm Tucker, a fixer with a penchant for four letter words that would make Deadwood’s Al Swearingen [...]
It’s hard for me to remember a film with as divergent a critical response as Synecdoche, New York which made many reviewers best and worst films of 2008 lists at the end of the year. I can sympathize with those who didn’t enjoy the film – to its credit it never even tries to meet [...]
Mickey Rourke’s face – puffed, spongy, semi-mobile, is like a relief map of failure in Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler, a sports drama that struggles semi-successfully to transcend it’s genre. To the degree that it succeeds Rourke, Marisa Tomei, and Aronofsky deserve the credit for sharply grounding the film in reality. Likewise, it’s shortcomings are again [...]
With my busy eastern media elite schedule I haven’t had the time I’d like to give you, my tens of readers, the movie reviews that I’ve promised. So here are some capsule reviews of what I’ve been watched over the last few weeks courtesy of Netflix. I’ve also helpfully added the stars I gave them [...]
Movie Review by Noah Mallin Jacques Tati gave everything he had to 1967’s Playtime, at the time one of the most expensive movies ever made in France. For his trouble it was a commercial failure and a mixed-bag critically, closing the door on Tati’s reign as the master of postwar French comedy. Seen today on [...]
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